Test Extraction Plant at Villa Independencia
- When
- 1862
- Where
- Villa Independencia
George Christian Giebert established a test extraction plant at Villa Independencia, backed by Liebig and local entrepreneurs, following his 1862 proposal.
After reading Liebig's letters in 1862, Giebert proposed industrializing beef extract production in South America. With Liebig's agreement, he founded the Societé de Fray Bentos Giebert & Cie. and built a test plant at Villa Independencia, later called Fray Bentos. The passages date the proposal and correspondence to 1862, while an industrial plant owned by the Societe de Fray Bentos Giebert & Cie., the Liebig Extract of Meat Company (LEMCO), is stated to have been founded there in 1863; the construction year of the test plant itself is not directly stated.
Sources
- Liebig's Extract of Meat Company Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-03
- Fray Bentos Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-03
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