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Keventer and Carso Group to set up a commercial lab
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Saturday, 12 February, 2011, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Keventer Group has tied up with a French Company ‘Carso Group’ to import an innovative food testing laboratory in the country. The laboratory, Carso India Lab Pvt. Ltd, will be set up at Barasat in West Bengal by Edward Keventer Life-Science, a Keventer Group company.
The laboratory in Barasat will be testing samples of food, water, beverages, meat,
poultry, fish, fruits, vegetables, tea, spices, condiments, spices, snacks, confectioneries and several agricultural products for commercial usage.
“The lab will have the facilities to comply with global standards,” said M K Jalan, chairman of Keventer Group.
Keventer had already set up integrated cold chains at Barasat in North 24 Parganas. Jalan said, “We collect 100 tonnes of fresh fruits and vegetables daily via collection centres and supply them to the leading food chains like Reliance, Aditya Birla Group, Metro Cash & Carry and the Future Group.”
The laboratory will be operational by November 2011.The seven acres land is located inside the integrated food processing unit developed by Keventer in the northern border of Kolkata. It’s a 50:50 joint venture between the two companies. The management of the laboratory will be done by the French company. The company is targeting around 1.5 lakh to 1.8 lakh samples testing per year. The project is initiated under the “setting up/upgradation of food testing laboratories” scheme, which is partially funded by the ministry of food processing industries.
The group is planning to invest in projects worth Rs 400 crore across West Bengal, Bihar and Karnataka. The investments in various processing units would include Rs 150 crore for mushroom, sesame seeds and ready-to-eat foods in Gujarat. In Karnataka, the company will be joining hands with Kishore Biyani’s Future Group to build a Rs 105-crore processing unit for fruit-pulping and value-added food. Another Rs 120 crore will be spent for setting up a processing unit for starch, glucose and dextrose (dextrorotatory form of glucose).
Carso Group was established in 1992. It owns more than 30 laboratories in the world. The Carso Group is a leading provider of analytical services in France on waters and environmental analysis, food and feed analysis, occupational in health building and industries, genetic identifications and testing and cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
While Keventer is a food processing major manufacturing fruit-based products for Parle and Apeejay. The company also has a strong presence in dairy products especially in milk and ice-cream marketed through Metro Dairy, which is a joint venture with the West Bengal government.
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