Marine Harvest Scotland is to build a high technology factory on the Isle of Skye which aims to be Europe’s most modern salmon feed plant.
Denmark-based Graintec has secured the deal for the design and supply order of the new fish feed factory.
“We are world leaders with regard to the production process of salmon food, meaning that there is a 67% chance that the salmon you buy in the store has been fed with food from a production plant where Graintec in one way or other has been involved in”, says Niels Pedersen, CEO of Graintec.
“We did it again, and look forward to extend our good collaboration and the works on the Kyleakin project.”
The new factory hopes to produce 170,000 tonnes a year, and will have a total contract value of approximately €33.5m.
High technology will play a central role and with the current trend for sustainability and organic food.
Technology implemented by Graintec will include a new solution for grinding and will focus on energy recovery, which is one of the areas the Danish company has specialised in.
This project will be Graintec’s second largest order in history. In 2012, Graintec received the order for a feed factory for the Norwegian Marine Harvest ASA with a contract sum of approximately €36m.
The state-of-the-art feed plant placed in Kyleakin, on the Scottish Isle of Skye, will produce feed for Scotland and other Marine Harvest sites in the North Atlantic region.
Planning permission is expected later this year with commercial production aiming to begin in the summer of 2018.
