The company embarked on establishing groundfish processing at Vopnafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur to complement its extensive pelagic processing facilities there, filling the gaps in production between pelagic seasons. New facilities are being set up in a building that had previously been a fish processing plant in Vopnafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, and according to B\u00e1r\u00f0ur J\u00f3nsson, the company\u2019s technical manager in Vopnafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, the work has overrun its original schedule, mainly due to the shortage of construction workers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s looking good and we expect to be able to start groundfish production here in December if there are no hitches. That\u2019s going to depend mainly on the potential seamen\u2019s strike, which could upset our plans if it happens,\u201d he said. He commented that around twenty technicians and HB Grandi staff are involved in the last stages of preparation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re expecting the Marel flow line to be delivered tomorrow, along with the skinning machine and conveyors from Skaginn. The skin chillers have already been set up and in the next few days we\u2019ll be adding more equipment to all this.Once it\u2019s all in place, it\u2019s up to the electricians and the computer specialists to take over..The air conditioning is practically ready and we still have to finish installing the fire-fighting sprinkler system and the fire alarms\u201d B\u00e1r\u00f0ur J\u00f3nsson said.<\/p>\n
35 to 40 staff are expected to work on groundfish production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HB Grandi\u2019s groundfish processing plant at Vopnafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur in eastern Iceland is expected to be ready for operation in December, although the possibility of a seamen\u2019s strike starting next week could delay production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10155,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions\/10155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10153"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}