June 4 - The Board of Directors of Luzhou Bio-chem Technology Limited (“the Company”, and together with its subsidiaries, “the Group”) refers to the announcement made by the Group on 13 May 2008.
The Directors wish to update shareholders that its production plant located in Sichuan Province (“Sichuan Plant”) has resumed operations on Monday, 2 June 2008.
The Sichuan Plant’s utilities services are unaffected, while key transportation networks have been restored, facilitating the transport of raw materials and finished products to and from the plant.
The Group will commence delivery of its products such as corn sweeteners and corn starch to customers from today, 4 June 2008.
The Group is still evaluating the full impact of the Sichuan earthquake on its operations, and will provide further updates in its interim results announcement.