The organic food products SME, recently awarded in London, is considerably expanding its Méjannes-lès-Alès site and aims to conquer new markets.
The story of a company that grows like a well-planted tree. Since 2019, Senfas, an SME producing organic food products whose production is based in Saint-Privat-des-Vieux, has also benefited from its hangars and administrative buildings in Méjannes-lès-Alès, neighbors of the Alès Agglo exhibition center.
Giant warehouse and cold room
Right next to its processing and storage hangar, on bare ground, construction equipment is currently carrying out earthmoving work. First stage of a colossal project to expand its warehouse which will, at the end of July 2025, allow it to store up to 10,000 pallets of products, compared to 4,000 currently. A new packaging workshop is also planned, the current one feeling a little cramped within the existing walls.
The warehouse will also house, a new element in the company, a huge cold room to accommodate up to 300 tonnes of frozen food products. Absent from its current catalog, “we are betting on organic frozen food because it is one of the most important requests from our customers”specifies its CEO Michel d’Ozenay. Meals and foods which are more suitable for structures such as collective catering or other caterers, and which would thus guarantee nutritional quality equivalent to fresh food. “This will also help reduce packaging”. In the development, the company plans to cover its roof with solar panels, which should cover “80% of electricity” used on site, as well as cold production by CO2 for the freezer, allowing “a 30% reduction in energy consumption. Today, we must be virtuous!”.
With this extension, Senfas also plans to hire around ten new employees: salesperson, logistics manager and preparers.
New productions and medals
The Senfas frozen range should arrive on the market (the company's products are mainly found in organic distributors) once the project is completed. In parallel, “we are going to launch new productions”ambitions Michel d’Ozenay. Starting with two versions of a new peanut-flavored spread, reminiscent of “peanut butter” that can be found across the Atlantic. A product which, on November 14, received a platinum medal at the London International Plant Fair. “This allowed us to open distribution channels in England”rejoices Roxane Wittmer, marketing manager at Senfas. An opportunity which motivated the company, in this case, to invest in a new machine which will allow it to produce “up to a ton per hour” of this product reserved for gourmets.
