September 9, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — Gokongwei-led meals and beverage firm Common Robina Corp. (URC) is exploring the opportunity of placing up a brand new P400-million animal feed milling plant in Mindanao to cater to rising demand.
The ability, if pursued, will likely be URC Agro-Industrial Group (AIG)’s first plant in Mindanao.
“Yearly, we’re increasing slowly. We began in Luzon. We went north in Bulacan, then we’re additionally heavy in Visayas particularly. This yr or the subsequent two years, we’re taking a look at Mindanao,” URC-AIG managing director Vincent Henry Go instructed The STAR.
“Now that the market is absolutely booming, agriculturally-wise, I feel Mindanao is an efficient venue,” Go mentioned.
Go mentioned that no agency plan has been made but on the potential Mindanao growth, however indicated that the undertaking will doubtlessly be “extra of the hog feed line.”
“It’s not on the board but, but when we develop there utilizing the Visayas services, presumably we are able to put up a plant there (in Mindanao) additionally,” Go mentioned.
“As soon as we pull the set off, minimal funding there may be P300 million to P400 million,” he mentioned.
AIG is a division below the bigger agro-industrial and commodities group of URC, which additionally contains the sugar and renewables group in addition to the flour and pasta division.
AIG, by itself, operates three divisions — farms, animal diet and well being in addition to meals, medicine and disinfectants.
Its Uno+ Hog feeds have confirmed to be probably the most environment friendly hog feed within the nation for hog raisers nationwide, whereas TopBreed has established itself as one of many market chief within the Philippines below the pet food model section.
URC’s animal diet and well being section focuses on animal diet by means of its core animal feeds enterprise, complemented by the growth of its pet meals portfolio and its medicine and disinfectants enterprise.
The section contributed roughly 7.4 p.c of URC’s revenues for the primary half.
Amongst its present feed mill crops are situated in Bulacan, Pasig in addition to Consolacion and Mandaue Metropolis in Cebu.
Final December, URC bolstered by greater than half its manufacturing capability for high quality flour with the opening of a brand new mill in Quezon province.
The corporate’s P5.4-billion facility in Sariaya raised URC Flour’s capability to about 3,500 metric tons every day from 2,180 MT per day.
URC is likely one of the Philippines’ largest meals and beverage corporations, producing iconic manufacturers similar to Nice Style, C2 Cool & Clear, Piattos, Maxx sweet and Cream-O cookies.
