Dragoco India, a unit of German food ingredients and flavours group Dragoco, has inaugurated its new production facility in Semmanchery, near Chennai (Madras).
Dragoco India is a joint venture between Dragoco Asia Pacific, and the Chennai-based Sanmar Group. The European firm holds 51 per cent of the partnership, which was formed in 1994, with its Indian partner controlling the remaining 49 per cent.
The new factory was built on a ten-acre plot at a cost of Rs.185 million (€4.1m) and houses offices, laboratories and warehouses. The present capacity of the site is 2,300 tonnes of fragrances and 700 tonnes of flavours, but this can be doubled if necessary.