Beijing News (reporter Wang Ziyang) on October 26, Yuanqi Forest Supply Chain and Food Safety Strategy Press Conference announced the "three 0 factories" strategy, that is, in the production of gradually achieve "0 preservatives", "0 pollution" and "0 carbon" three goals. Li Bingqian, general manager of Yuanqi Forest Production Center, announced that the national strategic layout of "5 super city clusters + self-built factories" that Yuanqi Forest has laid out since 2019 has initially completed.
Li Bingqian, general manager of Yuanqi Forest Production Center.
Li Bingqian revealed that based on the background of the continuous improvement of young consumers' demand for healthy diet, Yuanqi Forest released the "three 0 factories" strategy, that is, on the basis of self-built factories, further improve the process standards, and gradually achieve the three goals of "0 preservatives", "0 pollution" and "0 carbon". Among them, Yuanqi Forest officially launched the "0 preservatives" plan at the beginning of this year, which has now covered all the production capacity of sparkling water. According to reports, the number of sterile carbonic acid production lines of the same scale is currently less than 30 in the world, and 8 Yuanqi Forest have been put into production, and 24 are expected to be put into production next year.
According to reports, on October 6, the fourth Hubei Xianning factory invested and built by Yuanqi Forest officially entered the equipment installation and commissioning stage, mainly for central China, and is expected to be put into operation at the end of this year at the earliest. The fifth yuanqi forest plant also broke ground on September 30 in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, and is expected to be put into operation next spring. In the previous year, Yuanqi Forest's Chuzhou, Tianjin Xiqing and Guangdong Zhaoqing factories were all completed and put into operation.
This series of actions marks the initial completion of the national strategic layout of "5 super city clusters + self-built factories" that Yuanqi Forest has laid out since 2019. The above-mentioned self-built factories correspond to the five major urban clusters in North China, East China, South China, Central China and Southwest China, focusing on the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Sichuan-Chongqing, and the Central and Southern Regions of the Two Lakes, directly covering 700 million people.
Li Bingqian said that Yuanqi Forest has repeatedly encountered production "supply cuts" in recent years, because most of the domestic carbonated beverage production lines are in the hands of international giants. The completion of the national factory layout of Yuanqi Forest means that it has achieved basic independence in the field of supply chain.
Yuanqi Forest also disclosed some business data for the first time, in the past 12 months, more than 30 new beverage flavors have been added, and the product research and development cycle has averaged 5.5 months. As of September this year, R&D costs increased by 350% year-on-year, and the total R&D expenses accounted for the highest proportion among beverage companies of the same size.
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