Key figures
The group has three production units and 640 employees, producing an average of 320,700 tons of finished products per year. Lutosa's policy of continuous investment has led to sustained growth since the business started in 1978. In the past ten years the growth rate has averaged +10% per year.
In addition, our company appears on the Trends Gazelles 2006 list of the fastest-growing companies in the Belgian province of Hainaut.
Volume trends (tonnes)
To sustain this level of development, Lutosa continually invests in ever more efficient and sophisticated machinery and facilities, equipped with state of the art technology and safety features.
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- Storage silo
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- Automated cold store
Currently, we have:
1. For on-site potato storage:
nine silos with a total capacity of 100,000 tonnes. This allows us to stock a portion of our potato requirements under optimum storage conditions (automatically controlled temperature and air-conditioning).
2. For production:
- 5 production lines for pre-fried French fries (frozen + chilled) with a total capacity of 54 tonnes/hour of finished products;
- 9 drying cylinders with a total capacity of 3.5 tonnes/hour of potato flakes;
- 5 production lines for frozen potato specialities with a total capacity of 6.5 tonnes/hour of finished products.
3. For storing finished products:
11 cold rooms, 2 of them fully automated, where 83,000 pallets of frozen products can be stored.