San Miguel Yamaura Packaging Corporation (SMYPC) is a joint venture between San Miguel Corp (SMC), Southeast Asia's largest food and beverage packaging company, based in the Philippines, and Nihon Yamamura Glass Co of Japan. The company expanded and has evolved to serve the packaging requirements of a wide variety of industries and also provides packaging services such as research, testing, design, PET recycling, contract filling etc. Today, the company serves clients in the USA, Europe, Japan and Australia, amongst others. One of the company's main glass production plants is located in Mandaue. In 2009, the company decided to make a major investment in its furnace process control, including the melter, refiner and forehearths, annealing lehrs, and production counters. The entire process control was to be upgraded from a 20 year old single-loop control technology to a state-of-the-art distributed control system.
