August 28, 2009
China's Zhongpin boosts Changge plant capacity by 37 percent
Zhongpin Inc, a leading Chinese meat and food processing company, Thursday (Aug 27) announced that it has upgraded its slaughtering and processing facility in Changge, Henan province.
Through improvements to the process engineering and information technology that cost about US$6 million, the plant's annual production capacity has risen by 37 percent to reach 81,760 tonnes from the original 59,760 tonnes. This increase in capacity will help to support Zhongpin's expansion into new markets for its chilled and frozen pork products.
With the upgrade of the Changge plant, Zhongpin has ended the lease of a plant in Hengshui, Hebei province.
Meanwhile, this upgraded Changge plant and the new plant in Tianjin which is currently under construction will assist Zhongpin to better serve its important northern China market including the affluent cities of Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan.
Scheduled to begin pork production by mid-February 2010, the new Tianjin plant will have state-of-the-art facilities to produce chilled and frozen pork products.
