Greenfield brewery project in Vietnam

Early this year, Vietnam’s leading brewery, Saigon Beer, Alcohol and Beverages (Sabeco), began construction of its biggest brewery, in the Cu Chi industrial zone of Ho Chi Minh City. For around 120 million US dollars, it is building here a brewery dimensioned for an initial capacity of 1 million hl, which is scheduled to start operation within a mere 17 months. The first filled bottle of beer will be leaving the brewery in May 2007. Krones bears overall responsibility for the entire construction work and the equipment as well. A quintessentially turnkey project.

Krones has thus taken fully on board the EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) idea, which subsumes the construction of the building, the entire engineering and the organisation of all subsuppliers. Krones is the main contractor, handling overall project management, with ultimate responsibility for both equipment and the construction work. The job package covers the buildings and the outdoor installation for the entire brewery, together with the bottling operation. This also includes process buildings, tank farm, bottling hall, water treatment, office building, canteen, landscaping, etc. The entire process technology with a 1000- hl/h brewhouse and two returnable-glass bottling lines, each rated at 30,000 bph is realised in this facility. Project partners are the Vietnamese branch of a Dutch architecture firm and a Vietnamese building company.