DXN breaks ground on Brazil manufacturing facility

From left: Gustavo Costa de Souza, Undersecretary for Investments and Production Chains of the Minas Gerais Governor’s Office; Felisberto Paiva Carvalho, Vice Mayor of Ibia, Minas Gerais; Ahmad Sufi Badrul Amini, DXN’s Brazil Project Manager; Gillianno Mamao, Mayor of Ibia, Minas Gerais; Prajith Pavithran, Executive Director and group CEO of DXN; Amirul Azman Ahmad, MATRADE Trade Commissioner to Brazil; and Ravi Kumar, DXN’s Brazil Country Manager.

PETALING JAYA: DXN Holdings Bhd has announced the groundbreaking of its new manufacturing facility in Ibia, Brazil, as it expands its manufacturing footprint in Latin America.

In a statement, the group said the Brazil facility, which will source raw materials from DXN’s own agricultural operations and local suppliers – including Arabica coffee beans from its 385 acres plantation in Ibia – will strengthen DXN’s vertically integrated model by linking upstream cultivation with manufacturing, while improving supply reliability and raw material control.

The Brazil facility forms part of its ongoing RM500mil capital expenditure programme, through which DXN is expanding manufacturing capacity across multiple regions to support its long-term growth.

The facility is being developed on a 100,745 sq m site provided by the municipality of Ibia under a conditional land donation arrangement. DXN has committed to invest at least 100 million Brazilian real over five years in establishing and developing its operations in Ibia.