FPT and Green Power to Power an Algerian Factory

FPT and its distributors Bimotor and Avoni Industrial joined Green Power Systems to power one of North Africa’s largest agro-industrial projects, set to revolutionize powdered milk production in Algeria. FPT is certainly no stranger to these latitudes — nor further south across Africa, as our coverage of Morocco and Kenya has already shown.

The project, worth $3.5 billion and cofounded by the Algerian National Investment Fund and Qatari dairy producer Baladna Q.P.S.C., involves the construction of one of the world’s largest integrated dairy farm and powdered milk facility, spanning 117,000 hectares of agricultural land, and designed to support 270,000 dairy cows.

Gensets for the Agro-industry in the Sahara Desert

Located in Algeria’s Adrar province, the agro-industrial facility is scheduled to start production in late 2027. Once fully operational, it expected to produce up to 100,000 tonnes of powdered milk per year, thus meeting about 50% of Algeria’s needs. Being in a Saharan region with temperatures often exceeding 40° C for over 130 days a year, the agricultural land meant to feed the dairy cows is at the center of a huge non-stop irrigation project in which the gensets provided by Green Power Systems and powered by FPT engines play a crucial role. In total, Green Power Systems delivered 50 GP330 S/I-A generator sets powered by FPT CURSOR 13 engines, providing up to 330 kVA and representing the ideal choice for round- the-clock operation of irrigation systems in extreme conditions.

The FPT-powered Green Power Systems, in fact, support central pivot irrigation systems, a crop irrigation method in which the equipment rotates around a central pivot and crops are irrigated using sprinklers, thus creating circular irrigated area centered on the pivot. Less labor-intensive and more water-efficient, this irrigation method is particularly effective in large plots of arid land and can rapidly transform them into agriculturally productive zones.

Insights from Green Power and FPT

“Green Power Systems’ participation in this project further confirms its role as a reliable international partner in the supply of power generation solutions for large-scale agro-industrial and infrastructure applications, ” says Flavio Faggiolini, Export Area Manager for Green Power Systems.

“In projects of this magnitude, power continuity is essential to ensure the proper functioning of the entire infrastructure. The collaboration with FPT Industrial contributed to delivering a solution aligned with the reliability requirements of the operational context.”

“Being part of a such a large-scale project, meant to improve Algeria’s food security and to create about 5,000 local jobs, is both a great honor and a great responsibility,” adds Vittorio Bertalli, Head of Sales EMEA at FPT. “But we are confident that our CURSOR 13 engines, together with hi-tech Green Power Systems products, will once again live up to the most demanding expectations”.