Chinese meat processor Zhongpin has today (16 December) started trial production at two of its chilled and frozen pork products plants in China.
Output has begun at facilities in Jiangsu and Jilin. The company has invested US$63m to build the Jiangsu site and $61.5m to build a slaughtering and processing plant, low temperature prepared pork plant, logistics center, and research and development centre in Jilin.
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The annual production capacity for the Jiangsu phase one plant will be about 80,000 metric tons for chilled and easy-to-cook pork products and 20,000 metric tons for frozen pork. Zhongpin said phase two, a production facility for prepared pork products with an annual capacity of about 30,000 metric tons, is expected to open in the third quarter of 2012.
The annual production capacity for the Jilin phase one plant will be about 70,000 metric tons for chilled pork and 25,000 metric tons for frozen pork. Phase two in Jilin will include an annual production capacity for about 30,000 metric tons for prepared pork products, aswell as a research and development center, which are expected to open in the third quarter of 2012.
With the addition of the two phase one plants, Zhongpin said it will have an annual capacity of 728,760 metric tons for chilled and frozen pork, 126,000 tons for prepared pork products, 20,000 tons for pork oil, and 30,000 tons for vegetables and fruits, for a total annual capacity of 904,760 metric tons.
Zhongpin chairman and CEO Xianfu Zhu said: “With our two newest plants for chilled and frozen pork opening on 16 December, we will have increased our annual capacity for chilled and frozen pork by 29.3% and our total annual production capacity for all products by 26.4%.
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By GlobalData“As with our other recent expansions, we already sell into those markets from our existing facilities, so we have good market acceptance and growth potential in both the Jilin province in northeast China and in the Jiangsu province in south-east China near Shanghai.
