date:Feb 27, 2013
South African Breweries (SAB) will invest about ZAR700m ($78.9m) in a new maltings plant at Alrode in Gauteng Province to support the local economy.
The new maltings plant will be built next to the company's current Alrode brewery after the land ownership transfer that is anticipated to complete by middle of 2013.
Construction of the new plant is expected to be completed in 2015 and will produce 130,000tons of malted barley annually, which is expected to increase the use of local barley from 6