SEOUL, KOREA - Korea DuckHerd, Korea's largest duck meat processor, said on May 28 it has completed building Asia's largest duck meat processing plant in the Jangheung Industrial Zone, South Jeolla Province. The 33,000-square-meter plant has a capacity to slaughter 72,000 ducks and process 36,000. In addition, the plant is equipped with state-of-the-art automated system from slaughter to processing and to packing.
With the latest processing facility as the competitive advantage, the company plans to expand toward overseas markets. Korea DuckHerd has already achieved an export goal of US$5 million in Australia last year. Starting next year, it will aggressively move in to the high-end Chinese market.
Park Young-jin, president of Korea DuckHerd, said, "The Jangheung plant will raise the bar for the whole duck meat processing industry with its world-class facility and systems. From next year, we will actively pursue overseas markets such as China, Japan, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia."
Korea's duck meat market has doubled for five years to 1.5 trillion won in 2011 from 650 billion won in 2006. Per-capita duck meat consumption has increased more than four times to 3.13 kilograms in 2011 from 0.72 kg in 2004.
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