Bengaluru : To serve the demand for both domestic and international markets, SATS Food Solutions India (SFSI), a wholly owned subsidiary of SATS Ltd. (SATS), has opened its largest international food solutions facility in Bengaluru, complementing its existing large-scale food facilities in Singapore, China, Japan and Thailand. Situated in close proximity to the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru (KIAB), the facility covers an area of 221,000 sq. ft and has the capacity to supply up to 40,000 kg of ready-to-eat food products per day to institutional catering, private labelling, and commercial clients, including large-scale food retailers, restaurants, cloud kitchens, cafes, and lounges in India, and international markets.
The SATS India Food Solutions (SFSI) facility, funded with an investment of SG$61 million, is a frozen food manufacturing facility that incorporates culinary expertise, smart technology to produce tasty, nutritious food products according to the highest food safety standards. In addition to products, the food solutions facility, underpinned by innovation, will also offer packaging capabilities as part of the SATS’ global network of Experience and Innovation Centres.
Stanley Goh, CEO of SATS Food Solutions said that the opening of this facility is an important milestone for the SATS food production network in Asia. “As Asia’s leading caterer for world-class airlines, commercial and public institutions, food services and retail, our customers trust SATS and our central kitchens in Singapore to deliver authentic tasting, high-quality food solutions at scale, both in-flight and on-ground. Based on commercial channels and consumer insights, our array of capabilities has grown over five decades to include the entire food value chain, from procurement to value-added processing, production, commercialisation and distribution.
“Replicating this capability from Singapore to India and leveraging knowledge gained from long-standing joint ventures with our aviation-centric partners in India, the SFSI team will use SATS’ domain knowledge in culinary expertise, product design, food technology, quality large scale production, and packaging innovation to develop, distribute and export the food products produced from the India central kitchen for India and international markets.”
“Our food production capacity in Asia, including the new SFSI facility, will enable us to serve up to,750,000 meals per day, powering the ready-to-eat food era for the SATS network of customers in Asia and beyond, enabling our purpose to feed and connect communities”, she added.
