date:Sep 22, 2013
US agribusiness company Cargill has started construction of a new $200m sunflower oil crush facility in the Volgograd region of southern Russia.
Expected to be operational in time for the 2015 harvest, the facility will process up to 640,000 tons of sunflower seeds per year.
It will complement Cargill's network of oil crush plants worldwide and will serve the company's food and feed industry customers both in the Russian domestic market and across the world.
Cargill's grain and oilseeds busin