In its moment of boom came to employ, directly or indirectly, a significant amount of the population of Fray Bentos in its many sections.
In a process that took place between 1922 and 1924, a business group with mostly British capital acquired the Liebig Extract of Meat Company (a former German firm created in 1865 that employed 10,000 people in the last third of the 19th century), which was renamed "Frigorico Anglo del Uruguay".
During the second and third quarter of the 20th century, it was the development plant of the department of Río Negro. Its main products were meat extract and corned beef.
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