China's Nutrastar International, a leading producer and supplier of premium branded traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) consumer products, announced that it has completed its 2010 expansion plans, increasing annual production capacity from 55 tons to 72 tons. As disclosed in August 2010, in order to expand the company's branded Chinese Golden Grass product offerings and to meet the raw material demand needed to effectively launch new functional health drink products, the company planned to increase production capacity to 72 tons by the end of 2010 and to over 100 tons by the end of 2012. The 2010 expansion plans were successfully completed by bringing online three additional production facilities at the company's production base in Heilongjiang, China. Ms Lianyun Han, founder & CEO, Nutrastar commented, "We are thrilled to have completed this significant expansion project, which increases our annual production capacity by over 30 percent. This will allow us to continue to expand our product pipeline and market share in the TCM consumer products market." She added, "Our new functional health drinks containing Chinese Golden Grass are now in more than 50 supermarkets and convenience stores in the city of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. We are looking forward to further expanding distribution of our beverage and other consumer products in 2011."