Nestle Philippines boosts production facility in Batangas

Nestle Philippines is revving up the production line for Coffee Mate Creamer as part of the goal to reduce imports from Thailand and Malaysia.

 

Part of the process is to centralize the manufacturing and packaging facilities within the newly constructed facility in Tanauan, Batangas, by moving the filling and packing lines from nearby Lipa City by 2013.

 

"By bringing the filling and packing lines here in the first quarter of next year, we will save much time which will result in a faster production process," Marlou Constantino, Tanauan plant manager, told reporters during a plant tour for the media on Friday.

 

"In the current process, we send to Lipa for filling and packing the creamer we produce here in Tanauan," Constantino noted.

 

The Nestle factory in Lipa used to fill and pack the coffee creamer that came from Thailand.

 

When the Tanauan facility was opened last month, Nestle Philippines chairman and chief executive John Martin Miller told reporters the factory brought the company's total investments in the Philippines to P16 billion and reflected its confidence and commitment to the economy. 

 

The factory would reduce Nestle’s importation of Coffee Mate from Malaysia and Thailand, he added.— VS, GMA News