{"id":138420,"date":"2015-07-28T10:40:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T10:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=138420"},"modified":"2015-07-28T10:40:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T10:40:43","slug":"groupe-nduoms-freshpak-starts-export-of-trays-takeaway-packs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/07\/groupe-nduoms-freshpak-starts-export-of-trays-takeaway-packs\/","title":{"rendered":"Groupe Nduom&#8217;s FreshPak starts export of trays, &#8216;takeaway packs&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The food packaging subsidiary of Groupe Nduom, FreshPak Products Company Limited, has started exporting trays, \u2018takeaway\u2019 packs and ancillary products to neighbouring countries, barely a year after it was established at Elmina in the Central Region.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;tnatuhNrYdVcSNZpNUFtKlxRuy0Juurs&#8221;]This followed a strong demand for the products by consumers, both locally and internationally.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The General Manager of the company, Mr Samuel Ayim Kwapong, told the Daily Graphic at Elmina that the development also complemented the strong consumer response that greeted the products in the first months of the establishment of the company.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We have been in business for about a year but our products are all over and that is because of their quality and the trust the market has in us.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At FreshPak, we try as much as possible to make use of good manufacturing practices (GMPs) and that is getting us the customers. We think our products are the most preferred in the Ghanaian market,&#8221; he said on the company&#8217;s premises in the Groupe Nduom Industrial Estate at Elmina.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The estate comprises of GN Printing, GN Logistics and GN Electronics, which are under the GN conglomerate.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mr Kwarpong explained that the company was established in response to a need for quality food packaging products that would be comparable to those manufactured in the developed world.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Currently, I have customers as far as the Canary (Islands in Spain), Valsons and we are selling products to Liberia, The Gambia, and Togo, as well as across the length and breadth of Ghana. We are all over,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Given that the products are meant for the food industry, Mr Kwapong said his outfit ensured that issues of contamination and quality assurance were are properly catered for to ensure that the final product met all hygienic and quality conditions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mr Kwapong added that the company had installed state-of-the-art equipment at the factory to produce the packs and hoped that the power situation in the country would get better so it could expand to meet the demand.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He mentioned outdoorings, funeral services, caterers, hotels, shopping malls, weddings, meat shops, fresh fish sellers, fruit sellers and party organisers, among others, as some of the end users of the company&#8217;s products.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Power challenges<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Despite the huge potential for success, the production supervisor, Mr Antwi Adjei Boakye, said about 35 per cent of the plant&#8217;s capacity was lost to erratic power supply.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He said the company had been forced to reduce its daily and monthly capacity.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The situation, he said, was compounded by the peculiar nature of the production machine, which made it almost impossible to switch to a generator whenever the national grid went off.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He said because the machine required stable power to function, it had not been able to run on power from a generator, thereby bringing operations to a complete halt whenever the national grid was off.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To help mitigate the situation, Mr Kwapong said the company was exploring an alternative and stable power supply, which would serve as a backup to the national grid.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>By: Maxwell Akalaare Adombila, Elmina<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The food packaging subsidiary of Groupe Nduom, FreshPak Products Company Limited, has started exporting trays, \u2018takeaway\u2019 packs and ancillary products to neighbouring countries, barely a year after it was established at Elmina in the Central Region. 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