PNG’s second-largest city is the focal point for the nation’s downstream processing industries.
Manufacturing
Niu Homes has a 30-year history of providing buildings for Papua New Guinea’s residential and industrial sectors, from 24-room complexes for mining camps to family homes.
The Cloudy Bay Sustainable Forestry Company operates to a simple formula: ‘high quality at a fair price.’
K K Kingston, one of Papua New Guinea’s largest manufacturers, turns 40 in 2012. Paying a visit to its HQ in Lae, Robert Hamilton-Jones found the company evolving at a furious pace.
The Papua New Guinea Government offers a number of incentives to help develop the local manufacturing sector.
Papua New Guinea’s only cement manufacturer is riding the wave of soaring demand from the real estate, mining and public sectors.
The range of products manufactured in Papua New Guinea is growing all the time.
Laga Industries is a big name in Papua New Guinea manufacturing, producing, blending and importing a wide range of foodstuffs, condiments and beverages. Originally formed in 1975, a merger with Trade Winds Liquor in 2008 dramatically broadened its suite of products.
DuluxGroup’s PNG headquarters are in Lae, where it has manufactured paint and chemicals for over 40 years. It employs about 100 people between Lae and Port Moresby, and has trade depots in Kimbe, Kokopo and Madang.
Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) is spending up big in Papua New Guinea because Papua New Guineans are buying its products like never before.