Yeo's Drink Factory in Cambodia Caught On Fire

fire safety = last priority behind clean toilet stalls

Cool. The sales of your favorite winter melon juice and grass jelly drinks have not been affected by the fire...

Fire damages Yeo’s factory, but not sales
Wed, 7 September 2016
Cheng Sokhorng

A fire that ripped through a Yeo’s beverage factory under construction in an industrial park on the outskirts of the capital on Monday caused damage to about a third of the structure, but would not impact the company’s local sales as production had yet to start up, sources said yesterday.

“We are selling our product as normal and the fire will not impact our market here because our production line is in Singapore,” said You Kimseng, sales manager of YHS (Cambodia) Food & Beverage Pte Ltd.

He declined to estimate the extent of the damage or whether it would delay the factory’s scheduled November 2016 opening.

YHS (Cambodia), a wholly owned subsidiary of Singaporean beverage giant Yeo Hiap Seng Ltd, is building its first Cambodian beverage plant on a 9.3-hectare plot it purchased in March 2014 in Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone.

The company has invested at least $7 million into the 40,000-square-metre production facility, according to its 2015 annual report.

Yeo Hiap Seng is best known for its Yeo’s brand line of Asian beverages, which include lychee, soya bean, winter melon and grass jelly drinks.

A municipal fire department official said preliminary investigations into the cause of Monday’s fire pointed to a spark from a welder’s torch falling into a pile of construction waste. Nobody was injured in the blaze...
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