Dental firm to set up $3.1-M plant in Clark

MANILA, Philippines - DHLI Dental Health Laboratories Inc., a new firm that specializes in the manufacture of export-quality pharmaceutical products will be putting up a $3.1-million manufacturing plant in Clark Freeport Zone.

Clark Development Corp. (CDC) president Felipe Antonio B. Remollo and DHLI Dental Health Laboratories Inc. director Mary Jane J. Fowler recently signed a lease agreement for the establishment of the manufacturing plant.

Remollo said that while DHLI is a new corporation, its directors and officers have at least eight years in experience in the manufacture of similar products in the Philippines.

He added that the firm is targeting to export its products to Pakistan, Indonesia, Europe, Australia, and the United States.

Construction work on the manufacturing plant will be completed by June next year and will be ready for operations.

Meanwhile, garments firm Smart Shirt Phils. Inc. is set to invest P8.7 million in order to establish its regional operating headquarters in Clark.

The Hong Kong/Chinese firm signed sub-lease agreement recently with Philexcel Business Park. The headquarters will complement the factory operations of Smart Shirt. At present, Smart Shirt has 2,362 workers and among the top 10 exporters of the freeport zone.

Another firm is eyeing Clark Freeport Zone as it next warehousing project that would complement the operation of huge firms operating inside the zone. In the report by the Corporate Planning Department to Remollo, the MSK Group Work Inc. hopes to establish a warehousing project. The firm is yet to announce the multi-million venture that it plans to invest within the zone to complement the needs of various semiconductor firms in Clark.

Since the entry of big ticket semi-conductor firms inside Clark prompted many investors to make a second look at the former US-run Clark Air Base which has been transformed into a premier investment destination in South East Asia.

With the entry of new warehousing project, worker are expected increase anew to complement the growing manpower needs inside the zone.