Vezyroglou’s New Facility Is Now Fully Operational
At Frigo Stahl, we believe that some projects should not be assessed solely by their footprint, their equipment, or the timetable within which they are delivered. Their real value is determined by something far more meaningful: whether, once operational, they enable a business to move decisively to its next level. That is exactly what has been achieved with the new facility of A. Vezyroglou & Co. in Schoinas, Imathia.
With an investment exceeding €12 million, this project marks a new chapter for the “Vezyroglou Farm” brand and, more broadly, for the fresh vegetables sector in Greece. Production has already commenced, products are already in the market, and the result validates the ambition that shaped the project from day one: washed baby leaves of superior quality, with consistency, durability, and exacting standards maintained throughout every stage of processing.
The new facility comprises two washing, drying, and packaging lines with a daily capacity of 6,000 kgr, integrating AI-driven technologies for the monitoring and reuse of wash water, alongside a biological treatment system that enables its full reuse for crop irrigation.
For us, our role in this project went well beyond constructing another contemporary industrial facility. We contributed to the delivery of an infrastructure asset designed to serve a much broader objective: the vision of an ambitious, evolving company and the creation of a benchmark facility for its category. Through our turnkey methodology, we brought together the production areas, cold rooms, warehouses, administrative offices, and surrounding site works within one coherent operational logic, ensuring that the final outcome would not simply be functional, but fully supportive of the company’s new production model.
What matters most, however, is this: the new facility was not built merely to meet present-day requirements. It was conceived and delivered to accommodate Vezyroglou’s next phase -greater precision, stronger connectivity, enhanced quality control, more sustainable resource management, and a higher level of production readiness. The project brief itself described the unit as the most advanced facility in the fresh vegetables category, with a fully embedded Industry 4.0 approach, where production, warehousing, quality, and logistics operate as one integrated ecosystem.
That is precisely where our added value lies. We did not simply hand over a factory. We helped create a reference point for the category – something openly acknowledged by Mr. Antonis Vezyroglou, Founder & CEO, who stated:
“Our new facility reflects, in the clearest possible way, where we want to take our company in the years ahead: to an even higher level of quality, organization, and technological maturity. Our collaboration with Frigo Stahl was truly meaningful, because from the outset they understood that we were not simply planning a new building, but shaping the new production identity of our company.”
It is telling that Antonis Vezyroglou has consistently linked the company’s trajectory with the ongoing advancement of vertically integrated baby leaf production, while the company’s recent public positioning further confirms that sustainability, innovation, and quality remain central pillars of its growth strategy.
That strategy has now found the infrastructure it deserves. And for us at Frigo Stahl, that is the most meaningful outcome of any successful project: helping our clients move forward — not incrementally, but decisively — into their next stage of growth.