# Sato Foods to invest ¥4.5B in new production line for packed rice

Sato Foods will invest about ¥4.5 billion to add a production line at its Seiro Factory in Niigata, Japan, increasing daily capacity from 1.03 million to 1.23 million servings. Construction starts March 2023, production begins February 2024.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2022-09-07
- Where: Seiro, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, Japan
- Value: $31.5M (4.50B JPY)
- Starts operating: Feb 2024
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 200,000 servings per day; 65 million servings per year
- Products: aseptic packaged rice (Sato no Gohan)
- Sectors: [Food Processing Equipment](https://endata.com/sectors/food-processing-equipment.md)

## Companies

- [Sato Foods](https://endata.com/companies/65185.md)

## Sources

- [prtimes.jp](https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000008.000069722.html), 2022-09-07: "当社は、約45億円を投じて、当社のパックごはん専用工場である聖籠ファクトリーに新たな生産ラインを増設することを決定いたしました。"

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