Mega Global boosts output as demand for food surges

One of the country’s leading sardines makers has expanded its manufacturing capacity by 50 percent in anticipation of an increase in demand for canned goods.

Mega Global Corp. last Friday announced it is opening a new ice plant in Zamboanga, as it improves daily production capacity to 450 tons, from 300 tons. the firm also built a can making plant in talisayan to double canning capacity to 1.5 million a day, from 750,000.

Michelle tiu Lim Chan, CEO of Mega Global Corp., also said the firm has opened its Cawit headquarters as part of the company’s expansion plans to create additional jobs in Zamboanga.

Chan said the firm is carrying out efforts to modernize its operations in Zamboanga with the objective of becoming an employer of choice for the people there. Likewise, she disclosed the firm wants to continue improving its operations, as it looks to fire up its Luzon manufacturing plant by 2022.

“through the opening of our Cawit office, ice plant and can-making plant, we are confident that our company can help in creating more jobs in the province while also improving our operations in order to provide the best products to our consumers,” tiu Lim Chan explained.

the new Cawit office will serve as the firm’s Zamboanga headquarters to ensure the integration of its fishing and canning business, distribution and marketing. aside from the main office, Zamboanga will host Mega Global’s two internationally certified, cutting edge production plants where its signature 12-hour catching to canning process is practiced. the opening of Mega Global Corp.’s Cawit office coincides with the lifting of the 3-month fishing ban in the waters of Zamboanga Peninsula as enforced by the Department of agriculture and the Bureau of Fisheries and aquatic resources.

the closing of sardine fishing season was put in place by the government in 2011 to allow the fish to spawn and multiply. the state order covers portions of east Sulu Sea, Basilan Strait and Sibugay Bay.