According to the company the new plant building is fully weatherproof and closed with the exception of a few doors that still need to be fitted. The tower over the evaporators in the old building has been taken down, but it has not yet been decided what to do with the old 900m2 factory in future, although it is likely to serve as a store. Factory manager Sveinbjörn Sigmundsson said that they can’t be anything other than satisfied with the progress it has made till date.
He also said that from next week the new plant will take major step in fishmeal production in Vopnafjördur. He added that this should be the last time that they have to ship out fishmeal using the old system with meal trucked down to the dock in bags, where the bags are cut open and the meal allowed to drop into the ship’s hold.
The company said that in future all of the meal they ship out will be pumped direct from the meal silos that were transferred to here from the factory in Reykjavík, direct to the ship. This brings about a considerable saving and an increase in efficiency. At present we need a team of 15 or 16 staff, as well as trucks as forklifts, to spend a whole day shipping out meal. In future, the pumping system and two staff will be able to handle this.
