TorNet, the Spanish arm of Icelandic fishing gear group Hampiðjan, is moving after being in the same building since 2010. The company isn’t moving far, but is going to a more suitable 1,700-square-metre premises in Las Palmas.
This provides the workforce with a single production hall instead of the previous two adjacent spaces, and enables significant economies to be made in terms of having stock and gear production in the same building. It is also better equipped, with improved staff facilities, while the location is also more convenient.
According to TorNet managing director Henning Henningsson, the building will be ideal to meet the company’s anticipated requirements for fishing gear production and storage in Las Palmas in the coming years.
“Access for trucks and delivery of fishing gear from the net loft will be considerably improved and these new premises will in many ways improve the company’s image,” he said.
“Hampiðjan is a leader and growing rapidly, and there’s every possibility that this space could be used for newer and more varied activities than solely pelagic fishing gear production in the next few years.”
Hampiðjan TorNet’s core business remains unchanged, focused on producing pelagic trawl gear and supplying chandlery to fishing companies operating off West Africa, off Oman in the Middle East and on other distant waters fishing grounds.
It also has facilities in Dakhla in the Western Sahara region of Morocco, with a warehouse trading under the TorNet Maroc brand name, and there are no changes being made to this branch of the business.
