The future slaughterhouse of Tönnies in Calamocha (Spain) is complicated

The slaughterhouse that the German company Tönnies plans to build in Calamocha (Teruel) and, initially, had planned to start production in 2023, is being delayed due to several appeals filed by Quality Pharma World , a pharmaceutical company with fiscal headquarters in Tomelloso ( Ciudad Real). This company has filed claims both with the City Council and with the Aragonese Institute of Environmental Management (Inaga), all of them dismissed.

The City Council of Calamocha , has explained that the consistory is investigating who is trying to stop this project “which is very important not only for Calamocha but for the entire province of Teruel” .

As he explains, the company that is presenting these resources has nothing to do with the meat sector, something that, given so much insistence on stopping the construction of the slaughterhouse, makes them suspect that behind “there is some person, company, organization or company that it does have to do with the meat industry, but that he wants to remain anonymous”, because for the deputy mayor, otherwise “it makes no sense, so much interest that this project is not built in Calamocha”.

From the City Council they have tried to get in touch with this company “but its headquarters are not in Tomelloso”, indicates Sonia Palacio. According to the deputy mayor, the company responds through a lawyer from Zaragoza, “but it is also impossible to talk to him.” “All this is holding back the project and generating some uncertainty for the company that wants to settle,” notes the deputy mayor of Calamocha.

The Töinnes project in Calamocha contemplates the construction of a slaughterhouse with a budget of 100 million euros and with a slaughter capacity of 10,000 pigs per day and 912 tons of carcasses. These facilities would employ more than 1,000 people.

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