DUSHANBE, June 4, Asia-Plus  -- Issues of cooperation in launching joint ventures for processing fruits and vegetables and establishing plants for producing aluminum foil and empty bottles and jars were a major topic of a meeting of the head of Tajikistan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) Said Sharif with Ramil Faizov, sales manager for CIS states at German holding EMF Lebensmitteltechnik-Anlagenbau GmbH, in Dushanbe on June 3, according to the CCI press service.   

In the course of talks, Mr. Faizov briefed the CCI head on activity of EMF.  

For his part, Said Sharif informed EMF’s representative about state of processing industry in the country, noting that because of shortage of filling machines and tare considerable harvest losses are to be observed in the country.    

EMF Lebensmitteltechnik-Anlagenbau GmbH was founded in 1974 as an engineering factory manufacturing separators. After this, continual reorganization was carried out. In the beginning of the 1980s, EMF entered the Russian market and subsequently started to handle projects in the whole CIS area.

Meanwhile, EMF’s range of products was enlarged by complete lines for the food processing industries. Owing to the requirements in the market the main focus was put on the fields of slaughtering - red and white meat -, meat processing, fish processing and fish farming together with the necessary refrigerating plants and cold stores. Subsequently EMF established a construction department of its own allowing it to handle international turnkey projects.

As EMF’s corporate policy has been targeted to the east, the foundation of subsidiaries and offices in Eastern Europe and Asia was a corollary.  After the handling and termination of several barter projects trade and production companies in the fields of meat, fish and wood were founded.