Infrastructures

In 2004, the works department of Complejo Agrícola became a subsidiary company, called AINOSA (Andaluza de Instalaciones y Obras, S.A). The objective: to further professionalise its experience in major transformations of agricultural estates, hydraulic works and electrical and irrigation installations, with the most avant-garde systems. Nowadays, AINOSA provides its services both to Complejo Agrícola and to other external companies, mainly linked to the rural and natural environment, but it has also diversified its activity with public and private works of urbanisation, rehabilitation, water supply, sports facilities, etc. In 2007, another great qualitative leap took place with the reform, expansion and introduction of new production lines of the fruit and vegetable plant. All this has contributed to turning this facility into a highly technical platform. A sophisticated gear that allows the vertical integration of the production and marketing process. There are currently two active plants for handling fruit and vegetable produce on the estate. The surface area of eleven thousand square metres houses different processing lines for each product and cold rooms. The level of effectiveness of these plants allows for a total capacity of over one hundred and fifty tonnes per day. The entire process is Lean certified and the strictest Food Safety protocols are met. Also in this area is the cotton gin, the only one in operation in the entire province of Cádiz. In it, the cotton is dried, the seed is separated, the fibre is cleaned and it is packed into compact bales. Its innovative facilities and large size make it possible to process the cotton on the estate, which is harvested in much of the province. Among the various resources enjoyed by the property, it is worth highlighting the cereal drying plant, its own workshops, a veterinary clinic and a service station with several fuel pumps. Electricity is distributed through a medium voltage overhead network of more than fifty-five kilometres in length, which has an anti-electrocution system for birds. A project promoted personally by the founder himself in 1988, and which led to the modification of the entire internal power supply to preserve the local bird life and, especially, the imperial eagle, an endangered species.