A LOCALLY-OWNED company specialising in beauty and skin care products commissioned three new machines yesterday.
Organic Earth Fiji, the manufacturing arm of Natural Fiji, commissioned the machines at its premises in Vatuwaqa, Suva through assistance from the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Company director Geeta Reddy said the $85,000 grant through the National Export Strategy enabled them to buy three machines from China which could assist them to meet their export demands.
She said with the new machines they would be able to fill a container of soap in a week rather than eight weeks.
While commissioning the machines, the Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation, Mereseini Vuniwaqa said the machines would facilitate the country’s National Export Strategy.
Ms Vuniwaqa said through the NES, the company along with other businesses in Fiji had been able to expand and extend production of Fijian Made products beyond their current capacities.
“So in a huge way this grant will go a long way in enabling businesses like Organic Earth Fiji to increase employees within the company, to extend the production line and further, one of the most important benefits of this is that they are able to put Fiji further in the global market as Fijian Made products, a force to be reckoned with.”
“That act alone signifies how successful the grants given by the Ministry of Trade to businesses like Organic Earth Fiji are,” Ms Vuniwaqa said.
The company also launched the face of Natural Fiji and signed off an agreement with Natural Fiji (Hong Kong) Ltd yesterday evening at the Grand Pacific Hotel.
Natural Fiji (Hong Kong) Ltd would look after the Asian market.
