Opens first plant spread across 20,000 sq ft in a 250-acre industrial corridor
Mexico-based social enterprise Sistema.bio which provides smallholder farmers with high-quality anaerobic digestion technology, inaugurated its first manufacturing plant in Chakan-Pune, to produce its biodigesters in India. While inaugurating the factory, Camilo Pages, co-founder and chief production officer of Sistema.bio, announced that with the help of investors and partners, the company has invested Rs 200 million in Sistema.bio India’s manufacturing hub. This move aims to produce the company’s patented biogas reactors in India and provide them to farmers at a reduced cost.
The production facility is spread across 20,000 sq ft in a 250-acre industrial corridor. By December 2021, Sistema.bio India aims to achieve a capacity of manufacturing 2,000 biodigesters per month, and achieve full capacity of the unit by March 2022. Through the factory, the company will create employment for over 250 people.
The social enterprise also plans to build a robust supply chain in India. By producing biodigesters in India, Sistema.bio plans to reduce the cost of their biodigesters by 20 per cent, benefiting the economies of farming families. Earlier, the organisation imported biodigesters from their parent company in Mexico.
