Cargill says Dutch cocoa plant back online in days

AMSTERDAM, April 11 (Reuters) - Production in a cocoa processing plant in the 

Netherlands damaged in a fire on Sunday will resume within the next few days, owner U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill said on Monday.

On Sunday evening a fire broke out in the dust aspiration system of Cargill's cocoa processing plant in Wormer but was put quickly under control, Cargill said in a statement.

"We have assessed the equipment affected and expect production to resume within the next few days," the company said.

The fire was the second at a Dutch cocoa plant in as many days. On Saturday a fire broke out in an Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) cocoa processing plant in the same town.

ADM said in a statement on Monday that the facility remained operational, though its capacity was reduced.
In 2003 a fire in ADM's plant spread to cocoa warehoused and burned for several days. 

Source : reuters