Norwegian seafood group Marine Harvest has unveiled plans to invest EUR11m (US$15.1m) in a new 8,000 sqm processing and packing plant for salmon and white fish located at the French Channel port of Boulogne-sur-Mer.
“We have simply run out of space in our existing Boulogne plant where accomodating both primary processing (fileting) and secondary processing (portioning and packing) has proved difficult,” a senior Marine Harvest executive told just-food today (21 February).
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“The new, significantly bigger facilities are designed to allow us to optimise primary and secondary processing and will also provide scope for us to expand our pre-packed products activity at Boulogne which could lead to the creation of a new jobs.”
Some 120 staff are currently employed at the existing plant.
Marine Harvest’s new plant is expected to enter service in summer 2012 and will be located at a new industrial park where two other seafood specialists are already present – Océan Délices and Intermarche arm Capitaine Houat-Scamer.
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