The Dutch Lady Company started construction of a milk factory in northern Ha Nam province on December 16. This will be the second factory of the company in Vietnam.

Dutch Ambassador to Vietnam Andre Haspel attended the ground-breaking ceremony.

The Ha Nam Dutch Lady Milk Factory will be built on an area of 6ha with an investment of US$20 million, and equipped with most advanced technology from Europe.

The factory is expected to be operational in January 2008 with an annual output of 45 million litres.

The project, licensed two months ago, is the largest investment project in the province so far.
The “Dutch Lady” trademark of the Friesland Foods group of the Netherlands arrived in Vietnamese market with the first factory in the southern province of Binh Duong in 1996.