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Prima Halal Food Park A Success
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The Halal Journal,
August 2004 issue
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The halal industry might seem like a new market
to many but not for prima Agri-Products Sdn bhd, a Malaysian
owned company that has been in the delicatessen food business
for the past 15 years.
Prima's signature products, which happens to be the favorite
of many, is Malaysia's very own delicacy, sate. This tasty meal
of skewed chicken uses a secret recipe of blended local herbs
and spices, and comes with its very own peanut sauce. Prima
has a data bank of over 500 tested and proven halal products,
one hundred of which are propriety items belonging to international
fast food chains and restaurants.
It has successfully developed Prima, Baguz and Le Sate Mas brands
for institutional and retail market both domestic and overseas.
This is made possible because of Prima's breakthrough in food
processing technology from intensive research and development.
In the process, Prima has managed to restructure and substitute
non-halal raw materials without sacrificing taste and texture.
This extensive range of quality halal products has put Prima
on the A list of the halal food industry, and they now have
niche markets all over the world. One can easily get halal cold
cuts, halal gourmet sausages, and halal pizza with pepperoni
and halal sate in London, Paris, Frankfurt and Hong Kong.
The company, established in 1987, is a true blue success story.
Its future plans are geared towards widening their horizons
and spreading their wings - in a nutshell, expanding the business.
To accommodate the tremendous increase in demand, Prima is developing
a 40-hectare site in Gambang near Kuantan, Pahang, into the
Prima Halal Food Park.
The park is to increase production from
the current 25 metric tone (mt) per day to 230 per day. The
food park is one of the halal food parks endorse by Agriculture
Ministry.
Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin
Yassin welcomed the Prima Halal Food Park saying that Malaysia
needed more such ventures. "The halal industry is a big
market so more focus should be given to it. Malaysia has a good
location and well structured globally, this should be taken
advantage of.
"Prima has been bold enough to venture into the industry
in a big scale. They must ensure that they keep up the excellent
quality of all products", Muhyiddin said.
Prima Halal Food Park will integrate small and medium enterprise
capabilities with the support of Prima common services to produce
halal delicatessen.
"Sixty per cent of products will be for the export market
and 40 percent for the domestic market," Prima Agri-Products
Sdn Bhd general manager for finance and human resource Ahmad
Nadzer Idris said.
"This is and excellent business opportunity for international,
local food manufactures and supporting industries which will
have access to common facilities common services and complementing
business to other manufacturers."
Ahmad Nadzer explained that 74 entrepreneurs within the small
and medium scale industries in food production are invited to
participate in the 74 full fledge manufacturing units under
the vendor system.
"The 74 entrepreneurs will be owners in a highly specialized
manufacturing system of halal meat based delicatessen food.
"Prima Agri-Products will share and transfer manufacturing
experience and expertise to them to produce halal delicatessen
products. "The manufacturers will be able to produce halal
products under their own brand or brands for their existing
and new markets both domestic and export," he said.
There will be an 11,000 square feet land area with greenery
landscape, a 7,000 square feet specially designed production
area complete with machineries according to process flow and
an investment with a payback period not exceeding eight years.
"There entrepreneurs will be provided with exclusive commercial
recipes of delicatessen products and opportunities to secure
manufacturing contracts with Prima Agri-Products," Ahmad
Nadzer said.
"There are six product categories (cold cuts, sausages,
cooked chilled soups, sauces and marinades, prepared foods,
convenient foods and other value added foods) with yearly total
production of 73,800 metric tones.
"At full capacity of production, each SME unit in the Prima
Halal Food Park will produce 3,000 kilograms per day with sale
value of RM 738 million."
Ahmad Nadzer said Prima Halal Food Park requires 66,420 metric
tones of processed raw materials comprise of processed chicken,
beef, turkey, lamb, spices vegetables and ingredients. Packing
materials, both primary and secondary, will also be required.
There will be 12 industrial lots for independent producers,
and other support services, 82 SMIs factory units under Prima
vendor program and 32 units of factory lots for seafood, pastry
and agro based ingredients. Prima Halal Food Park is located
within the gazette Gambang Industrial Area, approximately 30
kilometers from Kuantan, Pahang. It has multiple accesses by
highways through the new East Coast Highway, Segamat in Johor
or Pekan and Kuala Lumpur - Kuantan principal road.
The park will have common facilities to be managed by Prima
Agri Products. Its principal activities will be acting as the
primary marketer for domestic and export markets of products
produced by the 74 SMEs. Prima will also provide common services
to all manufacturers including the 74 SMEs for certification,
quality standards and quality assurance.
"We provide common services with the aim to achieve food
safety, halal standards, market confidence and lower production
cost" Ahmad Nadzer said.
Prima Agri-Products Sdn is certified by the JAKIM, Jabatan Kemajuan
Islam Malaysia (Islamic Development Department of Malaysia),
Veterinary Services Department of Malaysia, Health Ministry
of Malaysia and ISO/HACCP by Reinisch-Westfalisher TUV e.V (RWTUV),
Germany.
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