Company to build factory to increase chicken exports
The Koyu & Unitek Company, based in the southern province of Dong Nai, plans to develop a second chicken processing factory to meet the demand for chicken products of the Japanese market.
Sticking stamps with origin and other details on poultry meat (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The Koyu & Unitek Company, based in the southernprovince of Dong Nai, plans to develop a second chicken processing factory tomeet the demand for chicken products of the Japanese market.
The second factory, worth 20 million USD, is expected to produce some 550tonnes of processed chicken each month once operational in 2019. It will enablethe company to export about 1,000 tonnes of products to Japan.
The company’s first factory in the province’s Long Binh Industrial Zone has amonthly capacity of 350 tonnes, but it is yet to declare the location of itssecond plant, where construction will begin in 2018.
Koyu & Unitek, a joint venture between Australia and Japan, startedexporting chicken products to Japan in September, after receiving approval fromJapanese authorities in June. The firm has currently shipped four containers ofproducts to Japan.
James Hieu, general director of Koyu & Unitek, said that Vietnamese chickenproducts are favoured by many Japanese consumers.
“Our goal is to bring Vietnamese chicken products into supermarkets in Japan.However, due to insufficient quantities, these products are only beingdistributed to restaurants and hotels over there,” he said.
Apart from Japan, the company is exploring new export opportunities in otherSoutheast Asian countries, Hieu added.
Koyu & Unitek is a member of a supply chain that operates in the animalbreeding and feed industry. Other three members of the chain are Bel Ga JSC, ajoint venture of the Belgian Belgabroed Group and the Netherlands-based DeHeus, as well as the Hung Nhon Group and De Heus.-VNA
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Sticking stamps with origin and other details on poultry meat (Source: VNA)
