SABECO inaugurates Sai Gon – Quang Ngai Brewery expansion project

At the inauguration ceremony, representatives from the local government and SABECO pressed the button to start producing the first batch of beer of the project. — Photo courtesy of the firm

SABECO on Tuesday officially inaugurated the capacity expansion project of Sai Gon – Quang Ngai brewery for 2019-21.

At the inauguration ceremony, representatives from the local government and SABECO pressed the button to start producing the first batch of beer in the project. The inauguration ceremony marked the latest success of the brewery, following its implementation of a can-line with a capacity of 60,000 cans per hour in June 2020.

“For Quang Ngai brewery, it was not too long ago, in 2010, that we started the brewery with only an RGB line, and a capacity of 100 million liters per year. In 2013, we put in an additional investment with the installation of a canning line. In 2020, we further invested VND650 billion into Quang Ngai Brewery as part of SABECO’s 3-year Brewery Expansion Project," said Bennett Neo, CEO of SABECO.

"Besides adding a new high tech, high speed canning line, we invested in 17 new tanks, a new filtration line, a yeast propagation system and a Reverse Osmosis water treatment system, expanding our capacity to 250 million a year. This is 2.5 times bigger than 2010.”

This is part of a three-year SABECO Brewery Expansion Project which SABECO announced in 2019, of which a total investment of VND650 billion is for Quang Ngai Brewery.

After the implementation of the can-line with a capacity of 60,000 cans per hour in 2020, SABECO moved forward with the second phase: expanding and upgrading the brewery capacity to 250 million litres per year.

The can line, being imported from Germany, integrates many modern, highly automated functions, which optimise manufacturing costs and ensure efficient manufacturing management. The engineers and workers can also upgrade their working skills through on-job training, supervised by experts from Germany.

Since its inauguration in 2010, Sai Gon – Quang Ngai Beer JSC has been one of the major revenue contributors to Quang Ngai Province.

SABECO contributed a total of more than VND8 trillion over the past ten years (2011-21). Specifically, in 2021, the company contributed around VND1.3 trillion to the provincial budget, a SABECO said.

Sai Gon – Quang Ngai Beer JSC has contributed a total of VND5.9 trillion over 10 years. The brewery contributed VND1 trillion in 2019, and 871 billion as of November 2020. — VNS