YAKULT BUILDS NEW PLANT TO SUPPLY WEST JAPAN
September 1st, 2010
BY WANG FANGQING
TOKYO-BASED dairy products manufacturer Yakult Honsha Co.,Ltd has invested Japanese yen JPY15.1 billion (US dollar USD180 million) to build a new plant in Miki city, Hyogo Prefecture to supply the local market in west Japan, including the regions of Kinki, Kyushu, Chu-Shikoku and Okinawa. It plans to complete the plant by spring 2013. It will manufacture liquid yogurt, hard yogurt and yogurt drinks, with a combined daily production capacity of 4.8 million bottles. It will replace Yakult's three existing plants, located in Kyoto, Fukuyama and ...
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