Agro-industrial giant Mong Reththy cluster is finalising construction on the Kingdom’s initial pig skin process manufactory and expects production to begin by the top of the year, a company executive aforementioned yesterday.
Mong Reththy Group associated an anon. Chinese partner have invested with $30 million in the joint project over the past year, according to Tan Monivann, the group’s vice president.
He said the manufactory, located at the group’s non-public port in Preah Sihanouk province, would process foreign pig skins to manufacture animal skin for the eu market.
“The plant will be finished at intervals consequent 3 months, and processing can begin by the finish of the year,” he said, adding that the factory would ab initio use five hundred employees.
While the Mong Reththy cluster operates its own industrial pig farm, Tan said the hogs it raises were not appropriate for pig animal skin production. Instead, it will import pig skins from Japan and also the EU to method into animal skin.
“We cannot use skins from our domestic pigs because they do not meet the quality size,” he said.
Hort Pheng, director of industrial affairs department at the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft, said the group’s pig animal skin manufactory would be the initial of its kind in Asian country.
“It will not solely offer jobs to Cambodians, but can additionally teach them the way to create animal skin,” he said, adding that the Kingdom’s first cow animal skin manufactory was presently underneath construction in Takeo province.
Monivann said Mong Reththy cluster may contemplate adding a production line for cow animal skin, but pig animal skin “fetches a lot of price.”