Private Company Launches 2b Factories

Oct 17 , 2022


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A private company in the beverage industry opened plants on Addis Abeba's outskirts to process and bag snakes such as potato chips. ABBAHAWA Trading, bottler of One Water brand, has invested 2.3 billion Br to build two plants in Sebeta, Oromia Regional State. The plants are erected on 4.28 and three hectares of plots, respectively. The launching of the plants was held last week in Hyatt Regency, Africa Avenue. The company has imported machinery from the United States, with a capacity to produce one ton of snake chips an hour. Established in 2014, ABBAHAWA Trading exports coffee and supplies bottled water as well as plastic products. Two years ago, ABBHAWA launched a juice processing plant in Alemgena, 15km east of Addis Abeba, on 2,5 hectares of land with an investment cost of 644.5 million Br.


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