Showa Aluminum Can celebrate the completion of 3rd production base in Vietnam; Hanacans develops capacity to produce 3.3 billion cans per year

Showa Aluminum Can Corporation (SAC), a consolidated subsidiary of Showa Denko), headquartered in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, held a ceremony on 29^th July’20 to celebrate the completion of its third base in Vietnam to produce aluminium cans. This new production base is in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, located in the southern part of Vietnam.

Ba Ria-Vung Tau Factory is the third production base of Hanacans Joint Stock Company (Hanacans), which is a consolidated Vietnamese subsidiary of SAC, and has production lines with a capacity to produce 1.3 billion can body per year. In addition to the construction of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Factory, Hanacans is now installing an additional line to produce can ends in its Bac Ninh Factory located in the suburb of Hanoi.

SAC acquired shares in Hanacans in May 2014 and pursues to have Hanacans introduce SAC's leading production technologies and quality control system since then. Hanacans has been successfully increasing the sales of aluminium cans in northern and central parts of Vietnam. As a result of the completion of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Factory, Hanacans has established an aluminium can production system with three production bases that covers northern, central, and southern parts of Vietnam. Now Hanacans developed the capacity to produce 3.3 billion can body and 3.3 billion can end per year.

The Showa Denko Group's Vision is to make itself a "KOSEIHA Company". In Vietnam which extends north and south, the Showa Denko Group will enhance the value of customer's experience by making the most of its aluminium can production system that can quickly respond to the demand of the market, thereby expanding its business in Vietnam. Thus, the Showa Denko Group will establish a KOSEIHA Business in the rapidly growing Vietnamese market.