decline
At the end of the decade of 1960, it was nationalized and acquired by the State, renamed "Frigorífico Fray Bentos", although it was popularly called Frigorífico Anglo.
Multiple efforts were made to try to reactivate it, without success. Even in the early 1980s, during the civil-military dictatorship, it was ceded to the Saudi Arabian company, which culminated in a resounding failure.
Once democracy was restored in 1985, from the civil society, the living forces, the Intendance and the Parliament, efforts were made to reopen it. To this end, a Refrigeration Reactivation Committee was created, which made different contacts with the Executive Power (especially with the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries [MGAP]) and the Legislative Branch (with the Special Commission for the Reactivation of the Frigorifico Fray Bentos and ARINSA).