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HB Grandi to be fully operational this summer

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By SeafoodSource staff
22 June, 2012 - HB Grandi’s Reykjavík and Akranes production facilities will be fully operational this summer, the Icelandic groundfish processor announced on Thursday.

As many as 130 young workers, many of whom are students, are temporarily filling in for the company’s regular employees who are on break. According to Torfi Thorsteinsson, HB Grandi’s production manager, the company’s Nordurgardur plant in Reykjavík has taken on 60 young workers for the summer, and there are 25 at Akranes. As last year, there will be no break in production at either location.

Magnús Róbertsson, factory manager at the HB Grandi Vopnafjördur plant, said that production will start at the beginning of July and most of the staff has already taken their summer holiday since end of the capelin season. But there will still be an additional workforce of 40 to 45 youngsters for herring and mackerel production this summer.

Vilhjálmur Vilhjálmsson, head of department at HB Grandi’s pelagic division, said fishing for mackerel and Atlanto-Scandian herring has been delayed until the end of June as the fish are very thin at this time of year. But they gain weight rapidly and become increasingly valuable raw material as the summer progresses.

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