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Argentine agricultural firm Morel Vulliez inaugurates $3 million peanut plant amid expansion
🇦🇷 Argentina /Economy & Trade

Argentine agricultural firm Morel Vulliez inaugurates $3 million peanut plant amid expansion

From La Nación · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • Morel Vulliez, an Argentine agricultural company, is expanding with a new $3 million plant in Chazón, Cordoba.
  • The company, founded 30 years ago, processes and exports peanuts to global markets and handles 600,000 tons annually.
  • Despite a past debt of $9 million from Vicentin, Morel Vulliez continues to grow, now led by its second generation.

Morel Vulliez, a prominent Argentine agricultural firm, is solidifying its market position with the inauguration of a new $3 million peanut processing plant in Chazón, Cordoba. This expansion marks a significant step for the company, which began 30 years ago with a single truck and two employees.

Founded by Carlos Morel Vulliez and Mónica Fernández, the company has evolved from cereal trading to a diversified agro-industrial operation. It now includes grain and oilseed collection, agricultural input sales, laboratory services, and primary grain production. Morel Vulliez processes and exports peanuts to markets across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, handling approximately 600,000 tons annually and accommodating between 150 to 200 trucks daily during harvest.

We grew without realizing it.

— Mónica FernándezMónica Fernández, co-founder of Morel Vulliez, describes the company's organic growth over the years.

The new Chazón facility is designed to boost operational capacity and better serve regional producers, offering increased storage for both peanuts and agricultural inputs. This growth occurs despite the company having been significantly impacted by Vicentin, which owed them $9 million. Now guided by the second generation, Morel Vulliez employs around 150 people and has a storage capacity of nearly 80,000 tons.

My husband bought pigs and we did relatively well, and one day he suggested we would buy cereals. We started with a small truck in the garage at home, just the two of us.

— Mónica FernándezMónica Fernández recounts the humble beginnings of Morel Vulliez with her husband.
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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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