Lundey NS in the harbour of Vopnafjörður HB Grandi is about to start new environmental friendly meal production at it fishmeal production facility. For this the company has installed and tested a new electrically powered system (electric/steam boiler) was test-run for the first time. It is told that this would change the scenarioof fish meal in future.
It is told that from now on locally-produced electric power will be used to run the plant instead of the heavy oil burned to provide power in the past. Vilhjálmur Vilhjálmsson, head of HB Grandi’s pelagic division, informed that it’s not just that power costs will be reduced by doing this, but it will also reduce significantly emissions of greenhouse gases in our meal and oil production.
He added that in the last few years we have consumed 3.30 million litres of heavy fuel every year to power production, with the accompanying release of emissions. Now these emissions are no longer a problem. Blue whiting production ended at Vopnafjördur last Sunday when the last day of production was used to test the new equipment. But there could still be a delay before full production of fishmeal and fish oil using domestic power supplies can commence.
