A new processing plant being built in Russia’s Far East will be equipped by two Icelandic companies.
The Collective Farm Fishery by V.I. Lenin, located in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East, will process a range of products, including pollock, Pacific cod, salmon, squid, and several species of pelagic fish. The plant is expected to open by the end of 2019 or the early part of 2020, according to a company press release. The Icelandic firms Skaginn 3X and Kælismiðjan Frost ehf have signed contracts to supply equipment and technology to allow for the grading, packing, and freezing of the factory’s products.
“We are proud to implement Icelandic technology into our new factory,” the collective’s CEO, Lenin Sergei Tarusov, said. “The combination of seafood traditions from Russia Far East and the Icelandic processing technology enables increased value creation from the resources.”
The contract was signed at a formal ceremony at the Icelandic Embassy in Moscow on 25 July. Moscow, Russia-based Knarr Rus, the local representative of both Skaginn 3X and Frost in the Russian market, will serve as the main liaison between the Icelandic companies and the collective.
Skaginn 3x will lead in the design and development of chilling, freezing and food processing solutions for the factory, while Frost will focus on the design and construction of the facility’s new refrigeration systems. The system to be installed includes advanced freezing technology, including IQF capabilities for all products, as well as automatic plate freezers for both fillets and whole fish. In total, the factory will be designed to freeze more than 500 metric tons of seafood products per day, with the ability to expand the facility’s capacity in the future.
“The project is a very important step for us to further prove our abilities in Russia and more specifically in Russia’s Far East,” Skaginn 3X Director of Marketing and Sales Jon Birgir Gunnarsson said in the release. “We are already in the middle of another large project for the company Gidrostroy, so this means we are really putting our flag down firmly in [the] Far East.”
