Varatea Industrial Zone has found 8 new tenants • TNTV Tahiti Nui Télévision

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The brand new relay workshops near Varatia in Taravao, whose first stone was laid at the end of October 2021, have finally found tenants. For 335 million XPF, the state led by Edvard Fritsch wanted Responding to the goals set for start-ups and small and medium-sized companies that want to start either in mechanics or in agro-processing » . The president was already showing optimism: We already know that when it is finished, it will be occupied as soon as possible ».

Shortly after the opening of these buildings, on June 15, Minister of Works and Major Equipment Geordie Chan gave the go-ahead for seven companies and an administrative division to settle there and start their activity.

• the society Sass Tahiti Islands To rent two plots in order to build a shed there for its distilling activity.
• the society SARL Fenua Steel He will be able to sign a lease of 5 plots of land in order to build a barn there intended to accommodate its thin galvanized steel building construction business, in partnership with New Zealand company Blue Scope.
• the society SARL Tahiti Oil Factory It will be able to lease one piece of land to house its main business of manufacturing monoi designation and controlled origin and occupy Hangar No. 1 of the food division to develop monoi processing and packaging there.
• the society SARL Fenua Wood It will be able to establish its commercial activities and valorization of local wood on a plot of land, as well as the conversion of products from construction sites and its installation in Hangar No. 8 of the mechanical shaft, offices and warehouse selling wood its activity in sawmills and processing of local wood and by-products from construction sites.
• the society Fromagerie de Tahiti SARL It will have the opportunity to develop its activity in the manufacture of cheese and other dairy products.
• the society SAS Tahiti Marine Biotechnology He will be able to install a hatchery dedicated to the valorization of holothurians (sea cucumbers) in Hangar No. 3 of the Food Centre.
• the society Vinnie Marie You will be able to develop food preparation activities by occupying the last barn No. 4 of the food department.
• Finally, the Directorate of Health It was authorized to rent Hangar No. 5 for the Mechanical Department with an area of ​​148 square meters in order to store equipment during the rehabilitation of Taravao Hospital. The lease was determined at the time of handover of the construction site of the new Taravao Hospital.

Varatia Industrial Zone covers a total area of ​​15 hectares and its entire ownership was transferred to the public corporation in 2007. The site has been developed and divided into forty-four plots of about 2,000 square meters each, forming a closed and secure division. It also has its own hydraulic network with an independent sewage system.