SAN MIGUEL is committing more than $1 billion to build a brewery in Yuen Long to improve product quality and boost output volume.
The facility, which the company claims as a 'state-of-the-art brewery', would use technically advanced, high-speed bottling and canning lines, said Andres Soriano, chairman of San Miguel Brewery Hong Kong.
'Our new brewery in Yuen Long is needed to maximise the utilisation of the latest brewing technology and to maintain our leadership in the beer industry,' Mr Soriano said at the facility's ground-breaking ceremony yesterday.
The brewery is expected to produce up to one million hectolitres of beer a year, with equipment which would reduce wastage and maintain high environmental and energy-conservation standards.
As Hong Kong's leading brewer, Mr Soriano said the company remained committed to the territory and would continue to be a key player in Asia's beer industry, including China.
'Sales of San Miguel in China, the world's second largest beer market after the United States, are constrained only by our production capacity there.
