Ito En Makes Bottled Green Tea in the U.S.A.

Major beverage manufacturer Ito En, Ltd. is to build a manufacturing plant for green tea beverages near New York City. The construction is planned as early as summer 2007. The new plant is expected to make 48 million plastic bottles of tea a year.

Ito En has begun to export bottled green tea from Japan to the United States since 2002. The sales has been well in the U.S. market.