TH Group's Van Ho fresh fruit and herbal processing factory (Son La) comes into operation

Phu Huong• September 21, 2020 11:04

(Baonghean.vn) - Van Ho fresh fruit and herbal processing factory has just been inaugurated and put into operation in Son La. It is the first factory in Vietnam to process concentrated orange and longan products on the world's leading modern production line.

The first factory to process concentrated longan

Attended the inauguration ceremony of the newly built factoryTH GroupIn coordination with the People's Committee of Son La province, the event was organized in Van Ho district with the presence of Party and State leaders: Tong Thi Phong - Politburo member, Permanent Vice President of the National Assembly; Phan Dinh Trac - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission; Nguyen Huu Dong - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Son La Provincial Party Committee and representatives of leaders of Central and local ministries, departments and branches.

Delegates attending. Photo: PV

Van Ho fresh fruit and medicinal herb processing factory started construction in January 2018; phase 1 production (2020-2025) with a processing capacity of 300 tons of vegetables, fruits, and herbs; investment level of 1,200 billion VND, solving 15,000 hectares of raw material area.

Phase 2 (after 2025), the entire Project will increase investment to 3,500 billion VND, solve more than 35,000 hectares of raw materials and will process fruits and vegetables with a capacity of 300 tons per day. In the immediate future, the factory will focus on processing fruits such as longan, guava, mango, orange, passion fruit, crab apple... and produce all-natural, safe fruit and vegetable juices.

Ms. Thai Huong - founder of TH Group spoke at the ceremony. Photo: PV

This is the first factory in Vietnam to process concentrated longan, using Extraction Technology - the most modern, fully automatic, high-pressure, heat-free, cold extraction technology from Germany and using equipment from the world's number 1 manufacturer of specialized fruit processing equipment.

In phase 1, the factory will consume products from 15,000 hectares of raw material areas; phase 2 will continue to consume products from more than 35,000 hectares of raw material areas with fruits such as longan, guava, mango, orange, passion fruit, hawthorn...

Các đại biêủcắt băng khánh thành. Ảnh: P.V

Delegates cut the ribbon. Photo: PV

The most modern technology in the world

To ensure the requirement of producing fruit juice that retains all natural nutrients and is environmentally friendly, Van Ho Fresh Fruit and Herbal Processing Factory makes its mark with special technological highlights - leading in the agricultural processing industry.
By using fully automatic extraction technology and HPP high pressure processing technology - in which HPP high pressure processing is one of the most modern technologies in the world today, products will be processed by high pressure in a short time without using heat, helping to preserve the most color, delicious flavor and nutritional value of fresh vegetables, tubers and fruits while still ensuring food hygiene and safety. Due to the high cost of equipment investment, up to now, there are still very few businesses applying this technology in Vietnam in particular and Asia in general.

Các đại biểu ấn nút khởi động dây chuyền nhà máy. Ảnh: P.V

Delegates press the button to start the factory assembly line. Photo: PV

This is also the first factory in Vietnam to process concentrated orange and longan products on the world's most modern production line. The factory was installed by the German General Contractor Rieckermann and uses equipment manufactured by the Italian company Bertuzzi.

Bertuzzi's line is the latest generation, processing fruit with high synchronization and automation from automatic fruit washing, peeling, extraction to concentration and packaging; applying the newest and most modern technologies, with the ability to expand and integrate to process many other types of fruit such as crab apple, passion fruit, mango, guava, grapefruit...

With a high juice recovery rate (up to 80%), fuel savings by optimizing energy, saving electricity, a completely closed process, protecting the environment, the factory's production is a model of circular economy. The waste is crushed fruit pulp that will be led to the pulp storage house by a closed screw. Here the pulp is dried to make fertilizer, fuel or feed for aquatic animals.

Tham quan dây chuyển sản xuất của nhà máy. Ảnh: P.V

Visiting the factory's production line. Photo: PV

Create the most sustainable method of poverty eradication and enrichment

“It has been 8 years for the project up to today, with 4 years since the idea was formed, from idea to reality, this encountered a long economic crisis, leading to more difficulties for businesses - especially businesses in agriculture.

But with all our heart, we always want to aim at how to help farmers near and far and poor provinces develop, eliminate hunger and reduce poverty. And the most sustainable way to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty is to bring them into a farming and production method"-Mrs. Thai Huong- TH Group founder shared.
“This is a common joy for Son La province, especially for farmers in key fruit growing areas such as Van Ho, Moc Chau, Mai Son, Song Ma, Bac Yen, Phu Yen districts. From now on, farmers here will no longer worry about “good harvest, low price”, or worry about the output of the products produced. The appearance of a factory using the most modern technology in the world in Vietnam is a breakthrough in the commodity agriculture of Son La province” - speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Comrade Tong Thi Phong - Politburo member, Permanent Vice President of the National Assembly acknowledged.

Ms. Thai Huong introduces Van Ho fresh fruit and herbal processing factory. Photo: PV

Not only does it create jobs for hundreds of workers directly working at the factory and tens of thousands of indirect workers in the province, but the factory's operation also promotes high-quality agricultural production so that Son La province can develop its proud fruit brand sustainably and reach further into the world.

Pioneering enterprise

Not only that, the orientation of linking with farmers through Cooperatives that TH Group has advocated to implement will be a new type of Cooperative model, proactively applying high technology when farmers are gathered together, voluntarily linking up in production, then no one will be "left behind" in the trend of technology, but will become a link in the value chain, led by enterprises, providing production plans, technical standards as well as requirements on product quality, guidance on cultivation and processing techniques.
Besides, with the appearance of a modern project and modern cooperation methods, it will certainly help officials at all levels, professional social organizations and farmers to innovate their thinking and small-scale farming practices to commodity production, facing big business opportunities and international integration.

Các đồng chí lãnh đạo Trung ương trồng cây lưu niệm tại nhà máy. Ảnh: P.V

Central leaders planted souvenir trees at the factory. Photo: PV

“The appearance of a large and prestigious enterprise like TH Group in Moc Chau plateau, Van Ho, a 30A district, a highland and difficult area of the border province, will be a pioneer enterprise, attracting more enterprises from all over the country to come here, contributing to the sustainable implementation of the Party and State's ethnic policies, contributing to raising the economic level of the border area, contributing to building and protecting the Fatherland's borders" - Comrade Tong Thi Phong affirmed.

By the end of 2020, the area of fruit trees and hawthorn trees in Son La will reach over 80,000 hectares and will be the province with the second largest area of fruit trees in the country, of which the area of longan is 18,000 hectares, mango 17,000 hectares, citrus 46,000 hectares, passion fruit 2,100 hectares, banana 5,100 hectares, hawthorn 12,300 hectares, plum 10,922 hectares...; the fruit output in 2020 in the whole province is estimated at over 400,000 tons.

According to Mr. Nguyen Huu Dong - Secretary of Son La Provincial Party Committee, the province has oriented to develop agricultural raw material areas that meet standards and quality to supply raw materials for the Van Ho fresh fruit and herbal processing factory of TH Group. In particular, the development plan until 2025, the area of orange and longan trees in the province will reach over 25,000 hectares, with an output of over 195,000 tons.

Central, ministerial and industry leaders and group leaders took souvenir photos on the day the Van Ho fresh fruit and herbal medicine processing factory came into operation. Photo: PV

According to the global forecast by 2022 of "Fruit & Vegetable Processing Market", the global processed fruit and vegetable market will reach 346 billion USD, this growth rate has increased by a cumulative growth rate (CAGR) of about 7%/year since 2017. Along with the general trend in the world, Vietnamese consumers have paid attention to choosing to use soft drinks of natural origin, rich in vitamins and minerals. TH Group's investment in processing fruits and fruit drinks completely from nature will help consumers have more choices to use healthy products, ensuring healthy nutrition.

“We apply high technology, 4.0 technology, bringing the world's number 1 technology, equipment and achievements here. The entire factory project is operated automatically to maintain hygiene and safety and retain all the nutrients of the fruit, bringing them to serve human life”

Ms. Thai Huong affirmed.

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