Hungary’s Largest Egg Production Plant Inaugurated

Gyermelyi Plc. has inaugurated an egg production unit in Máriahalom, some 20 kms west of Budapest, with an investment of HUF 1.4 billion, making it the largest egg production plant in the country.

The managing director of the egg production firm Gyermelyi Tojás Ltd., Csaba Réthy, stressed that the site in Máriahalom had previously had two barns with 100,000 places each, while the new plant, which has now been expanded, can accommodate 140,000 laying hens. The company previously had 540,000 laying hens altogether, but the new facility will bring the total to 680,000.

The plan is to increase annual egg production from 140 million to 170 million, half of which will be sold as shell eggs and the rest as fresh eggs for use in the company's own pasta factory, up to 700,000 per day.

The total value of the investment was HUF 1.4 billion, of which HUF 700 million came from Hungarian state subsidies, the company said in a press release announcing the expansion of the egg production plant.

Gyermelyi Plc. raises day-old chicks to pullets and then to laying hens using its own feed, thus ensuring a controlled, safe product trajectory from the start.

Half of the high-quality feed produced in the feed mill goes to the farms, the remainder is sold to external partners.

The crop production sector, which is the basis for the production of flour, covers 8,200 hectares and brings together 250 producers.

The group multiplies seeds of high nutritional value bred by the Martonvásár Research Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and distributes them to the farmers participating in the production community.

The group's pasta factory is one of the largest and most modern in Central and Eastern Europe. Its nominal capacity reaches 70,000 tons per year. In 2022, the plant produced nearly 42,000 tons of pasta, more than 35% of which was sold abroad.