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The Erode-based SKM Egg Products Export (India) Ltd has won the 'Golden Trophy’ from the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda) for 2011-12 and 2012-13 for its outstanding export performance to the poultry sector.
The company has been winning the award continuously since 2001.
The company, which is into the manufacture of whole egg powder, egg yolk powder and egg albumen powder, exported products worth Rs 110.66 crore and Rs 173.11 crore in 2011-12 and 2012-13, respectively.
The 100 per cent EoU is among Asia's biggest egg processors and suppliers of egg products in the global market with significant presence in Japanese and the European Union markets. It has a factory in Cholangapalayam and produces 6,500MT of egg powder per year and processes about eighteen lakh eggs daily.
The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority under the Ministry of Commerce, GoI, had instituted the awards with a view to giving a fillip to the 100 per cent export-oriented agri-based food processing industries.
At an award function held on November 26 at New Delhi, Rajeev Kher, Commerce Secretary, Government of India, presented the awards.
L Suresh, GM-Process and K Sivaraju GM-Technical of SKM Egg Products, received the awards.
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