The information was unveiled at a recent meeting between leaders of the management board of the Dung Quat Economic Zone and representatives from Sojitz group.

So far, Sojitz group has invested in a number of infrastructure projects in industrial parks in Vietnam and in projects related to forests and wood production. It has also conducted a feasibility study to cooperate with India’s JK group for a Pulp Paper factory with a design capacity of 150,000 tonnes per year in this zone.

The management board asked Sojitz group to invest in its advantageous areas such as pulp paper production, MDP wood production, chemicals, infrastructure, garments and textiles.

Sojitz is Japan’s leading group involved in multi business fields such as machinery and equipment production, metal, energy, chemicals ,infrastructure and agro- forestry – fishery industry and consumer goods.

The group has 898 subsidiary firms and affiliates in Japan and around the globe with 16,273 employees and total asset worth JYP 2,210 billion.