With global demand for halal gelatin rising, Halavet Food aims to export $100 million of gelatin collagen in 2022.
Halavet Food’s new $25 million food-grade bovine gelatin plant has a production capacity of 1,500 tonnes. Halavet strives to double Turkey’s gelatin exports by expanding into the North American markets. The firm already exports to the Middle and the Far East.
“Within 12 months, we will be manufacturing and exporting gelatin collagen worth $100 million,” Yusuf Aydemir said at the plant’s opening ceremony. Aydemir is the executive president of Iskefe Holding, the enterprise Halavet has been part of since 2011.
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