Fish feed giant Nutreco recently opened a processing facility and offices in Bekasi, near Jakarta, Indonesia. The Dutch company had already been operating in the country, with a plant it purchased from BASF in 2007. For the past 19 months, fish feed premixes and blends have been produced in the older plant.
Operated by its Trouw Nutrition Indonesia subsidiary, the new plant gives Nutreco the opportunity to grow its fish feed market share in Southeast Asia.
The premix facility has a capacity of around 15,000 tons of blends and premixes annually. Trouw Nutrition already has approximately 30 percent of the fish feed market share in Indonesia.
The new plant employs a predominantly Indonesian workforce and will supply both the local market along surrounding countries, including Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Korea.
Laurent Genet, general manager of Trouw Nutrition in Indonesia, told SeafoodSource that the Jakarta plant fits perfectly with Nutreco's plans to help develop Asia's burgeoning aquaculture industry.
April 12, 2009
