{"id":993,"date":"2013-04-10T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2013\/04\/10\/hb-grandi-cold-store-making-progress\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:31:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:31:50","slug":"hb-grandi-cold-store-making-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/processing-refrigeration\/hb-grandi-cold-store-making-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"HB Grandi cold store making progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HB Grandi\u2018s production manager Torfi Th. Thorsteinsson has said that the cold store is expected to be operational in May as planned<\/p>\n<p>The contractors handling the new building are \u00cdAV and K\u00e6lismidjan Frost, who have a team of 40 working for them to get the 3,800m<sup>2<\/sup> cold store up and running. At the time of writing, work was in progress to erect the steel for the first floor, the outer cladding for the freezing and grading area, and to set up the freezing units.<\/p>\n<p>The new cold store is much needed and will solve many of the problems HB Grandi has faced in terms of cold storage space. The company currently rents cold storage at \u00d6rfirisey, and frozen products from both the factory trawlers and the Reykjav\u00edk production plant are frequently stored in freezing containers or in rented space both in Iceland and overseas.<\/p>\n<p>The formal opening of the cold store is planned for 2 June, which is also Seamen\u2019s Day in Iceland &#8211; an occasion to honour those who make their living from the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction of HB Grandi\u2019s new cold store at its Nordurgardur site in Reykjav\u00edk is going well and work is on schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-processing-refrigeration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}