Dao-Heuang Group invests 29 million Euros in coffee plant

(KPL) A giant coffee exporting company (Daoheuang Company Group) has spent 29 million Euros on the procurement of the machinery for its
coffee-processing factory.

The Daoheuang Group signed a contract with Germany's E and E Company and
Anhydro company of Denmark for the purchase in Vientiane, 17 July.
Dr Nam Vignaketh, Minister of Industry and Commerce, and Mrs Leuang Litdang,
president of the Daoheuang Group, were present at the event.

According to a spokesman of the Daoheuang Group, the construction of the
plant in Bachieng district, Champassak province, will take two years and the
plant will be ready in 2010.

Mr Bounleuth Ninhom, Assistant Manager of Daoheuang Group, told KPL News
that this new coffee-processing factory would be using an automatic system
and all its processes will be in accordance with the EU's quality and
standard.
He said that the factory has a production capacity of 400 kg of finished
coffee outputs per hour.
This factory will adopt a complex line process, meaning that there are
frozen and drying systems which will be controlled by a computer system.
Three countries in Asia are now using such a plant and Laos will be the
fourth.
Mrs Leuang Litdang, President of Daoheuang Group said that when the coffee
comes on stream from this plant in two years' time it will be exported to
Japan, Taiwan, Asia-Pacific countries and EU.