Vietnam’s Sao Mai An Giang Group and Belgium’s Desmet Balesstra Group on Dec. 22 signed a contract to provide equipment for a fish oil refining factory in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap.

Covering an area of over 23,000 sq. m, the 15 million USD factory, which will go into operation by the end of 2011, will have a capacity of 100-200 tonnes per day and generate 2,000 jobs.

The fish oil products will be extracted from tra and basa fish fat which are provided by existing seafood processing plants in the Mekong Delta region./.