Attending the event were Politburo member and Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Vuong Dinh Hue; leaders of central ministries, departments and agencies; Nguyen Huu Dong, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and head of the provincial Delegation of NA Deputies; and Lo Minh Hung, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee; among others.

The plant is invested and built by the Son La Coffee Processing Joint Stock Company in Thong Nhat village, Muong Bon commune, Mai Son district, with a designed capacity of 50,000 tonnes of fresh cherries per year. It includes a circular water-saving wet milling line and a dustless closed dry milling line.

Covering an area of ​​nearly 4.1 hectares, the project includes such facilities as processing factory, finished product warehouse, coffee drying net house, office building, quality control laboratory, wastewater treatment area, coffee drying yard, internal roads, trees and auxiliary works.

Its wastewater treatment system has a capacity of 500 cu.m per day and treated wastewater meets national technical standards on domestic water. In particular, with a circular production process, all coffee pods and other by-products during processing are used as raw materials for organic fertilizer production at the Song Lam Tay Bac Fertilizer Plant.

Once the plant becomes operational, it will create jobs for more than 100 workers, mainly local people. At the same time, it will join hands with businesses, cooperatives, cooperative groups, and households to implement a sustainable coffee development strategy to obtain the Common Code for the Coffee Community (4C), Rainforest Alliance (RA) and organic certifications and the EU Deforestation Regulation  (EUDR), creating high quality coffee products that meet the requirements of domestic and export markets.