HISTORY

RD Tuna Canners Ltd. Fully owned and managed by the RD Group of Companies, is now poised to meet the challenges of the 21st century and thereby affirms its thrust to produce quality canned tuna products. Billed as Papua New Guinea’s project of the year 1997, RD Tuna Canners together with sister company RD Fishing PNG Ltd. were incorporated in Papua New Guinea and have granted pioneer status by the PNG government. Both companies are the first integrated tuna fishing and canning operation in the country. The operations of the two companies. RD Tuna Canners is based in Madang, Papua New Guinea. It is situated within 15.77 hectares of land where the cannery complex and other support facilities are also located. The cannery complex serves as a nucleus of a self-contained community of households, small industries and businesses that look at the company as an opportunity for growth and development. The cannery complex is composed of the cannery proper itself, power plant, steam plant, waste water treatment plant, microbiology and chemistry laboratories, two big warehouses where the labeling lines are housed and a separate can making facility and printing press to print and process labels for the canned tuna products. The cannery can process 150 MT of fish per day depending on market demand. RD Fishing PNG, Ltd. is located at Vidar. There are also Sales offices at Lae and Port Moresby.

OUR VISION

Asia Pacific’s leading supplier and producer of world class tuna products.