Ghanim set to operate Brunei’s biggest F&B manufacturing facility

Authorities-owned Ghanim Worldwide Company is ready to start working Brunei’s largest built-in meals and beverage (F&B) manufacturing facility by the yr’s finish, which is anticipated to considerably bolster native manufacturing for home and worldwide demand.

Situated on the Salambigar Industrial Park, the multi-million greenback Brunei Meals Business Growth Multipurpose Manufacturing and Processing Facility (BFID) is a joint challenge between Ghanim and Darussalam Enterprise (DARe).

Along with serving as Ghanim’s manufacturing base for his or her bruneihalalfoods product vary, BFID may also be open to native companies to develop and manufacture their very own merchandise.

With substantial manufacturing functionality, BFID is anticipated to decrease manufacturing prices, whereas additionally growing product marketability by buying worldwide commonplace certifications for its amenities.

“Having merchandise made with worldwide commonplace certifications equivalent to HACCP (Hazard Evaluation Important Management Factors) and ISO (Worldwide Group for Standardization) will enhance their potential for wider markets particularly export, as these requirements are sometimes required by completely different international locations and importers,” mentioned CEO of Ghanim Dr Nur Rahman.

“BFID will assist the economic system by decreasing Brunei’s reliance on imports by providing a higher vary regionally made merchandise, whereas additionally growing our complete exports.”

BFID is among the key initiatives to develop the nation’s meals sector – certainly one of 5 financial precedence areas set by the federal government to assist diversify the economic system.

The opening of the manufacturing facility can also be anticipated to shift Ghanim’s manufacturing mannequin for bruneihalalfoods. At the moment, Ghanim works with over 10 native companies who develop and provide bruneihalalfoods merchandise to Ghanim.

With BFID, Ghanim can have their very own manufacturing functionality, giving them higher functionality to scale each in product vary and quantity – however Dr Nur assured that their present producers can proceed to provide to them.

“Most of the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that we work with, they’ll proceed to provide from their very own facility; we’ll proceed that, we’re not disrupting that,” he mentioned.

“Nevertheless many native companies who’ve good merchandise have issue growing manufacturing, because of the vital expense in buying tools and organising a facility. With BFID we will scale back these limitations, so SMEs can create extra merchandise with bruneihalalfoods and even their very own manufacturers.”

BFID’s format

BFID can have three course of traces: the primary a multi-purpose product growth part primarily for SMEs, the second a canning and frozen meals part, and the third a cracker and snacks line.

Other than the manufacturing space, the power may also have workplace house, convention halls, and labs for testing, analysis, and growth.

Dr Nur defined that profitable merchandise developed below the primary part can progress to line two and three for higher scale. The three traces are thought of to be the primary section of BFID, with future phases together with extra intensive warehouse and distribution amenities in addition to extra manufacturing traces.

How can native companies leverage BFID?

In a latest Ghanim Open Day on the D&T constructing in Anggerek Desa, their enterprise technique and growth supervisor Fatin Ariffin shared the versatile preparations for companies when utilizing BFID.

Other than the present mannequin of companies working with Ghanim to create a bruneihalalfoods product, BFID additionally presents two most important choices for companies trying to produce their very own model of merchandise.

They’ll both lease the power – utilising their very own manpower and elements – or utilise Ghanim as an OEM (unique tools manfacuturer) whereby the manufacturing course of is dealt with absolutely by Ghanim.

Rental charges are tiered relying on amenities’ used, starting from $90 to $250 for 9 hour’s use for a selected part. Companies may leverage Ghanim’s distribution community for a payment or proportion of earnings.

Utilizing the instance of regionally made banana chips, Fatin mentioned present producers usually have the manufacturing functionality of 50kg a day, whereas BFID would have the capability to provide ten instances that quantity in a day.

“A single individual utilizing the automated machines may make 500kg (of banana chips) in a day, so that you’re not solely saving on time, however labour prices as nicely,” she mentioned.

She added that BFID presents technical experience in numerous areas from analysis to manufacturing and advertising and marketing, making it a “one-stop” resolution for packaged F&B merchandise.

Enterprise eager on studying extra about BFID can contact fatin.arifin@brunei-halal.com or hafizuddin.hamdan@brunei-halal.com.

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