Industries

Manufacturing

GTI growth from higher orders and lower costs

Taiwanese-owner garment manufacturer Grand Twins International (GTI), which posted a 44 percent surge in revenue and a massive 390 percent in net profit last year, attributed the surge to an increase in orders and the decrease of raw material costs, administration costs and total commissions, ...

The Phnom Penh Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gti-growth-higher-orders-and-lower-costs

Push to reduce chemical dependency

The Ministry of Agriculture is working to develop a procedural framework for the trade and use of biological control agents (BCAs) in agriculture in an effort to improve crop yields, protect consumer health and ensure continued access to key export markets. Regulation could also create ...

Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/push-reduce-chemical-dependency

Vinamilk to take full stake of Angkormilk

Vietnamese state-owned dairy giant Vinamilk intends to spend almost $11 million to buy its Cambodian partner’s entire stake in Angkor Dairy Products Co Ltd, better known as Angkormilk, according to Vietnamese media. ...

The Phnom Penh Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vinamilk-take-full-stake-angkormilk

Factories told to cool off for hot season

According to the official announcement, manufacturers in the textile, garment and footwear industry must do more to stop employees from fainting and suffering ill health as a result of working under excessive temperatures. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36898/factories-told-to-cool-off-for-hot-season/

Government to help abattoir stay out of the red

The company behind Cambodia’s first industrial slaughterhouse has refuted local media reports that claimed the government intends to shut down the company, insisting that remarks made by the minister of agriculture last week were taken out of context. ...

Kali Kotoski and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-help-abattoir-stay-out-red

Specialist food factory shapes up

Confirel Co. Ltd. and Pharma Product Manufacturing Enterprise will unveil its $7 million factory in Phnom Penh to process Kampong Speu palm sugar and Kampot pepper by July, the company said. ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36732/specialist-food-factory-shapes-up/

Beer tops advertising budgets

Beer advertising is one of the fastest growing advertising segments in the Kingdom, though just as people often struggle to keep track of how many beers they have put away, the amount that local breweries and distributors actually spend on media placements is subject to ...

Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/beer-tops-advertising-budgets

Silk weavers find it tough

Today, mulberry trees are a rarity in Cambodia – most of them having been destroyed during the Khmer Rouge era – and silk weavers in Phnom Penh’s main silk producing area in Koh Dach, an island on the Mekong river, have no choice but to ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36568/silk-weavers-find-it-tough/

Feed mill to take bite out of growing import demand

Chip Mong Group is the latest conglomerate to invest into local production of animal feed, announcing this week that it will sink $60 million into building a large-scale feed mill and industrial piggery, a move that agricultural experts welcomed but said would still not be ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/feed-mill-take-bite-out-growing-import-demand

Feed mill to take bite out of growing import demand

Chip Mong Group is the latest conglomerate to invest into local production of animal feed, announcing this week that it will sink $60 million into building a large-scale feed mill and industrial piggery, a move that agricultural experts welcomed but said would still not be ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/feed-mill-take-bite-out-growing-import-demand

Employers seek delay in garment pay reform

Plans to pay garment workers twice a month will be difficult for employers to implement, industry representatives have warned. The Labor Ministry is amending laws so companies will be required to pay staff twice a month, in a bid to protect workers from being abandoned by ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36429/employers-seek-delay-in-garment--pay-reform/

Pay protest amid fears owners skipped town

More than 600 workers from the capital’s Bodykids Fashion Wear factory protested on Friday and Saturday after management failed to pay them their February wages. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pay-protest-amid-fears-owners-skipped-town

Play fair, say local producers

Manufacturers of local products want fair play. While they have been receiving some consumer-support for their products, they still face an uphill battle against the same products imported from neighboring countries. And many local producers say the government should be doing more to help them ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36313/play-fair--say-local-producers/

Decline in labor complaints compared with last year

Labor dispute complaints in the garment and textile sector declined last year compared with 2015, according to the Arbitration Council, which attributed the drop to the Trade Union Law. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35923/decline-in-labor-complaints-compared-with-last-year/

Diversify to compete, WB economist says

Cambodia’s lagging agriculture and nascent manufacturing sectors need to diversify as the threat of regional competition heats up, a World Bank economist warned yesterday, while enumerating the challenges the Kingdom faces after having officially graduated into a lower-middle income country last year. ...

Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/diversify-compete-wb-economist-says 

Pesticide causes mass fainting

Eighty garment workers in Kampong Cham province fainted yesterday morning due to pesticides sprayed on a rice field nearby, according to police. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35714/pesticide-causes-mass-fainting/

Equipment sale ordered to pay wages

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has issued a warrant for the temporary seizure of Top World Garment Cambodia Ltd’s property in order to get the employer to appear and find a solution for workers still owed their December salaries. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/equipment-sale-ordered-pay-wages

Cambodian exports to US down

Cambodia’s total exports to the United States declined last year compared with 2015, due to uncertainties in the US presidential race and rising exports from Vietnam and new market player Myanmar. ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35260/cambodian-exports-to-us-down/

Something’s fishy with prahok

This year’s prahok season has left a bad taste in the mouths of those involved in making the pungent dish that is a staple in Cambodian cuisine. There are concerns that the vagaries in the mudfish catch, due to climate change and illegal exports to Vietnam, ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35332/something---s-fishy-with-prahok/

Court taxes unemployed workers

About 100 workers from the Chung Fai Knitwear factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district protested in front of the capital’s municipal court yesterday, demanding a judge remove a fee they are unable to pay. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35171/court-taxes-unemployed-workers/

Minister plans railway for workers

The Labor Ministry is considering constructing a railway line connecting Phnom Penh and select provinces to special economic zones (SEZ) or industrial areas in response to the high number of road accidents involving commuting workers. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34978/minister-plans-railway-for-workers/

ILO warns of Brexit threat to garments

Cambodia’s critical garment export sector could face major risks in both the short and long term from the U.K.’s surprise vote last year to exit the E.U., the International Labor Organization (ILO) has warned. ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/ilo-warns-of-brexit-threatto-garments-123535/

Garment workers continue protest

Nearly 1,700 garment factory workers in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet town entered day five of their protest yesterday against a factory over wage cuts as well as allegations that the factory was responsible for the assault of a union representative. Protestors accused Lu Thai (Cambodia) of ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33115/garment-workers-continue-protest/

Kolao revs up its investment

Kolao Group, a South Korean-owned automaker and distributor, plans to build factories in a proposed industrial park in Cambodia to assemble its proprietary line of automobiles and motorcycles, a company executive said yesterday. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kolao-revs-its-investment

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