12SUMMERS Fully Automated Food Industrial Park Tops Out, Marking a New Era of Smart Manufacturing in Healthy Convenience Foods

In February 2026, the main structure of 12SUMMERS’ fully automated food industrial park in Xiamen was successfully topped out. From blueprint to standing framework, the project took six months of meticulous development, and a new “innovation base” has now taken shape—integrating R&D, pilot production, and intelligent manufacturing, while meeting Class 100,000 cleanroom standards.

Panoramic View of the Topping-Out Ceremony of 12SUMMERS Xiamen Automated Industrial Park

At the topping-out ceremony, 12SUMMERS Founder Kico stated: “While the industrial park has reached its structural topping-out, 12SUMMERS’ growth knows no ceiling. In the past, we aimed to reach the industry’s ceiling; in the future, we hope to become the ceiling itself.” Fang Hansen, head of the industrial park project, also expressed sincere gratitude for the team’s dedication and efforts, and shared his anticipation for the project’s successful completion and smooth commissioning in the next phase.

Kico, Founder of 12SUMMERS

Fang Hansen, Head of the 12SUMMERS Industrial Park (Left)

This modern automated industrial park, with a total construction area of approximately 50,000 square meters, represents a key milestone in 12SUMMERS’ industrial footprint. It follows the commissioning of the company’s second self-built bird’s nest factory in Indonesia in September 2025, further strengthening its presence across the healthy convenience food value chain.

The park is equipped with advanced high-speed automated production lines for both ready-to-eat packaged foods and bottled beverages, designed to deliver safer, more innovative, and more convenient products to consumers.

Rendering of the 12SUMMERS Xiamen Automated Industrial Park

The fully automated food industrial park completed this topping-out phase integrates raw material pre-processing, automated production, R&D laboratories, quality inspection, and smart logistics into a single system. It is expected to gradually commence operations in the second half of 2026.

Within its two production buildings, the facility is designed for a total daily capacity of 560,000 units, featuring fully automated end-to-end production lines with automatic feeding, weighing and sealing, real-time inspection, operational control, and automated loading and unloading.

The industrial park will fully bridge the gap between R&D innovation and large-scale stable production, ensuring agile response and sufficient supply to meet market demand.

Its completion represents not only an upgrade in production capacity, but also a leap in system-level capabilities. Through a fully integrated framework spanning equipment, processes, and environmental control, the facility upholds consistently high standards and reinforces 12SUMMERS’ commitment to quality in every product.

Higher Safety: Full-End-to-End Controllability from Source to Shelf

Food safety remains the top priority for consumers and a non-negotiable baseline for 12SUMMERS since its founding.

The new industrial park continues the brand’s strict standards for production environments. A Class 100,000 GMP cleanroom system provides a production environment approaching pharmaceutical-grade cleanliness. The facility is also equipped with an intelligent visual inspection system and a Manufacturing Execution System (MES), enabling multi-layer quality control and ensuring consistently high-quality output.

Production Workshop of 12SUMMERS Manufacturing Facility

“12SUMMERS” has always placed food safety as its foremost responsibility, ensuring that every product delivers confidence and peace of mind to consumers. In Indonesia, the brand operates multiple bird houses and two large traceable-source bird’s nest factories. By scanning the traceability code, consumers can access detailed origin information of the raw bird’s nest, enabling full quality control from source to finished product.

12SUMMERS Traceable Bird’s Nest Factory in Indonesia

The commissioning of 12SUMMERS’ new industrial park in China will further strengthen a fully integrated quality control system—from the sourcing of premium global ingredients to domestic production, and from manufacturing to logistics—ensuring end-to-end traceability and control across the entire supply chain. This integrated system helps the brand consistently maintain its record of zero food safety incidents.

Enhanced Taste: Scientific R&D Empowering Better Ingredients

Great taste is the first threshold for winning consumers. 12SUMMERS’ product R&D team develops nearly 1,000 formulations annually, supported by strong scientific research capabilities. The new industrial park will include state-of-the-art food R&D laboratories co-established with institutions such as Jiangnan University and Jimei University, bringing together leading academic and industry expertise. These labs focus on key areas such as clean-label formulation, texture optimization, and nutrient preservation.

As consumers’ expectations become increasingly diverse, health, taste, and convenience are all essential. To meet these needs, the industrial park leverages intelligent manufacturing and process innovation to enhance the taste and nutrient retention of superfoods such as quinoa, wild rice, and chickpeas, without the use of artificial additives—bringing the brand’s philosophy of “faster, better, and more convenient” to life.

Enhanced Convenience: Designed for Multiple Everyday Scenarios

Whether it is ready-to-eat, microwave-heated, or chilled consumption, 12SUMMERS designs its products around the rhythms of modern life. Once operational, the new industrial park will further expand the brand’s product portfolio, covering multiple use cases such as breakfast substitutes, office light meals, fitness nutrition, outdoor consumption, and sports hydration—meeting the needs of different consumer groups.

For busy professionals, a quick morning can start with a ready-to-eat bowl of Bird’s Nest Congee or a Grain Cup—delivering a warm and nutritious breakfast in just one minute. In the office, a few stored products provide a light and convenient afternoon energy boost.

For fitness enthusiasts, high-protein Grain Cups serve as portable nutrition before or after workouts. For students and night-shift workers, a warm bowl of microwaved congee offers satisfying nourishment without digestive burden—delivering comfort, convenience, and balance in everyday life.

12SUMMERS Bird's Nest Porridge with Milk and Black Rice Flavor

12SUMMERS Cereal Cup with Soy Milk Flavor

12SUMMERS Bird's Nest Drink with Aloe Flavor

Greater Sustainability: Driving Positive Industry Development

While continuously enhancing its own production capacity and quality standards, 12SUMMERS also aims to leverage the demonstration effect of its industrial park to drive the overall upgrade of the healthy convenience food industry. The brand looks forward to working with more partners to collectively advance higher standards in real ingredients, clean-label formulation, and continuous innovation.

Since its founding in 2015, 12SUMMERS has remained focused on the “delicious, healthy, and convenient” food consumption category. Its flagship products have been recognized as the No.1 best-selling ready-to-eat bird’s nest congee in China for three consecutive years (2022–2024). The brand consistently ranks among top sellers across major e-commerce platforms and premium offline retailers, and is gradually expanding into international markets.

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Topping out marks a milestone victory, but it is also the beginning of a new journey. As equipment installation and commissioning progress in the next phase, 12SUMMERS will continue to leverage technology to empower high-quality, healthy ingredients—making nutrition and great taste effortlessly accessible. In doing so, the company aims to establish a new growth engine for its brand development and contribute solid momentum to the intelligent manufacturing transformation of China’s healthy food industry.