ABOUT US
MISSION
Our mission is to develop and provide innovative and quality carrageenan-based food ingredients complemented by excellent services, building long term partnership with our customers. We are our customers’ brand of choice, and we want to create meaningful opportunities for our partners, while making relevant contributions to our community.
VISION
To be the market leader in the carrageenan-based food ingredients industry, recognized for our world-class products, achieving sustainable growth through continued innovation, excellent services and competitive pricing.
VALUES
Continual Improvement and Innovation
We recognize that problems are a part of our day to day work, and commit to embrace and address them through continuous improvement, systematic methods, and technology that provides a superior way to do things.
Results! Today!
We commit to drive for results. We believe in quantifying our output, and establishing our worth by measuring our output. We also believe in high individual productivity and efficiency as personal standards. It is not enough that we produce results —we commit to do so promptly.
Ownership & Accountability
We commit to be personally accountable for our work and accept responsibility for our results. We expect our partners to do the same.
Practicality-Best Value
We commit to always use rational methods that measure value based on need, and a studied assessment of what gives the best worth for the lowest cost. We commit to always define what is best for us, not what others think is the best.
SUSTAINABILITY
As the trend for green movement slowly grows, consumers are rapidly converting to ecologically friendly means such as using renewable energy, promoting, and patronizing sustainable products, recycling, and utilizing natural and organic ingredients.
With the ever-changing world, the W Hydrocolloids, Inc. strives to incorporate sustainability in their day-to-day operations. As a vital part of a dynamic partnership to promote life and growth of the farmers, we continuously provide the required technical and financial assistance in terms of seaweed farming. Proper farming practices and additional knowledge on seaweed are imparted to the farmers through training sessions and general guidelines on improved farming techniques based on industry practices. With the use of these practices, farmers can harvest a more consistent number of seaweeds over a specific period of time, which essentially leads to increase in production and income for the farmers while following sustainable farming methods and producing quality raw materials. Several of W Hydrocolloids’ plants are also slowly converting to the use of geothermal energy to further enhance the company’s stand on sustainability movement. W Hydrocolloids is engaged in several socio-economic activities that aim to uplift and improve the quality of living through educational assistance, housing projects, feeding programs, and livelihood programs.
Standing as one of the leading exporters of ingredient solutions and carrageenan in the country, we at W Hydrocolloids, Inc., continuously operate to further enhance the firm’s thrust for environmental efficiency. We are working both upstream and downstream to produce and supply affordable, yet high quality and safe products, as well as upcycle and reutilize waste to reduce greenhouse effect, respectively.
INNOVATION
Better + finer. As a leading expert in the food industry with more than 40 years of experience, WHI’s Research and Development continually strives for betterment by creating tailor-made ingredients that deliver the necessary health and nutritional benefits at an economical cost. Embodied by talent and experience, our food experts in W Hydrocolloids, Inc. provide 100% customized ingredients that satisfy and fulfill consumers’ needs.
#ExperienceFoodBetter. W Hydrocolloids, Inc. also offers improvement of current and existing products by conducting thorough research studies that will pioneer an extension application based on the current market trends.
#FoodInnovationAtItsFinest. Fully equipped to cater to the market’s needs, WHI continuously innovates to deliver superior food ingredients that satisfy consumers’ needs. With the distinctive combination of our formulation expertise, extensive market insights, and vast global footprint, we can provide tailor-made solutions to the needs of consumers.
EXECUTIVES

Leehiong Wee
Chairman

Rosalind Wee
Vice Chairman

John Wee
President

Winston Wee
CEO
PLANT FACILITIES

W HYDROCOLLOIDS, INC. CARMONA
• Size of Factory: 8,800 m2
• Year Established: 2003

MARINE DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES CORPORATION
• Size of Factory: 794.7 m2
• Year Established: 1981

PHILIPPINE BIO-INDUSTRIES
• Size of Factory: 30,133 m2
• Year Established: 1992

CEBU CARRAGEENAN CORPORATION
Size of Factory: 18,018 m2
Year Established: 2010
CERTIFICATIONS
MEMBERSHIPS
CONTACT US
Head Office Address: 26/F, W Building, Fifth Avenue, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City, Philippines 1634
Telephone: (+632) 8856 3838
For Product Inquiries, please e-mail: marketing@rico.com.ph
For Job Applications, please e-mail: recruitment@wgroup.com.ph