Craig Mostyn Group's (CMG) new beef and sheep abattoir near Wooroloo, east of Perth, will be operating by 2011 and is expected to generate 100 jobs.

CMG chief executive officer David Lock said like the company's existing pork plant at Wooroloo, the new facility will have state-of-the-art production equipment.

"The plans were approved some time ago and will adjoin the existing Linley Valley site," Mr Lock said.

"Assuming the Department of Environment gives the all clear, we will start construction in the next six months."

Mr Lock said CMG had been to New Zealand to look at sheep and beef processing plants.

"We have invited a NZ manufacturing company to take care of the building," he said.

European and NZ technology will be used.

"It will be state of the art all the way through to the chiller," Mr Lock said.

"At this point we may also build a boning room, but we are still evaluating it."

CMG will not build a rendering plant.

Rendering will be outsourced to a Kalamunda facility.

The new abattoir will also be Halal-certified.

* Extract from a full report in Farm Weekly, November 13 edition.