THE LIEBIG`S EXTRACT OF MEAT COMPANY LTD. Fray Bentos was the specific site were the industrial revolution in the Rio de la Plata region, was born. There, began the most important process for the riches of the cattle raising in the 19th and 20th centuries. The first european technology designed for the new industry of the "extractum carnis", cames from Glasgow; the technical advices from Germany and europeans and americans inversors with the money helped began the most incredible adventure in the uruguayan economical history.

The revolutionary medicine-food that burnt in the Justus von Liebig`s mind, found in Fray Bentos the precise site to develop and grew immidiatly. The Liebig`s products were very famous and the recipients with the "Produced in Fray Bentos" mark was everywhere in the world. In fact, the Fray Bentos`name was so famous that was adopted in England as a trade mark, identifying the best quality in meat products. Liebig´s meat extract introduced the name of FRAY BENTOS to the world, and, in the imagination of the genial Jules Verne, it served breakfast to their firs travellers to the moon.

The old factory didn`t stop working for 117 years, first as Liebig`s Company and after as Anglo del Uruguay. This activity meant the conservation of edifices, machinery, documents and a very interesting tradition in the meat industrialization of a country which traditionaly produces and exportes meat.

The company established and independent community with a standart of living far higher than surrounding areas, where special accomodation was provided for workers and their families. This "company town" had become an interesting touristic attraction, because the conservation of edifices and places, an tennis and golf court, an old hospital, a school, an cultural center, etc. builded by germans and english owners.