JEDDAH: A Saudi company has completed the feasibility studies to launch a food factory with a capacity to supply more than a million meals to pilgrims from 14 countries during the Haj and Umrah season.

“We have completed the feasibility studies and already received the license from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry,” said Khaled Mandoura, chairman of the project. “We expect to begin the project’s implementation next year after the end of the 2015 Haj season.”

Mandoura said the factory would be established in the Hadi Al-Sham area along the Makkah-Madinah Expressway.

He said the $200 million factory would be established in collaboration with a strategic partner in three years. It will a production capacity of a million meals every day.

Mandoura stressed that the project would ensure security of pilgrims “because they will not be required to cook meals in tents.”