# Grupo Modelo inaugurates brewery and aluminum can plant in Hunucmá, Yucatán

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto inaugurated Grupo Modelo's brewery in Hunucmá, Yucatán, with initial capacity of 5 million hectoliters a year and an aluminum can plant producing 1 billion cans a year, built for 8.5 billion pesos.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2017-05-08
- Where: Hunucmá, Yucatán, Mexico
- Value: $450.0M (8.50B MXN)
- Status: completed
- Capacity: 5 million hectoliters of beer per year; 1 billion aluminum cans per year
- Products: beer, aluminum cans
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md)

## Companies

- [Grupo Modelo](https://endata.com/companies/1402.md)

## Sources

- [excelsior.com.mx](https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2017/05/08/1162217), 2017-05-08: "El presidente Enrique Peña Nieto inaugura este lunes en Hunucmá, Yucatán, la planta cervecera de Grupo Modelo"

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