Danish Crown eyes Asia Markets With New Pork Facility

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Danish Crown is moving up pinch plans to grow its pork processing capacity successful Denmark done a caller installation successful Vejen.

In a statement, nan co-operative said nan determination is driven by rising pig supplies from farmers, which has prompted a request for much deboning capacity.

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The further output from nan Vejen tract is intended for export arsenic vanished products to what nan institution described arsenic “attractive markets”, including destinations successful Asia.

Headquartered successful Randers, nan co-op expects to create astir 100 jobs astatine nan caller location.

Niels Ulrich Duedahl, nan group CEO of Danish Crown, said: “It is awesome that we are now hiring much employees. This is nan consequence of erstwhile again receiving much pigs for slaughter, which creates a request for much hands.

“We person truthful cautiously assessed wherever and really we could grow our production. By doing truthful successful Denmark, we tin waste nan products caller successful Europe and arsenic good export them stiff to customers astir nan world, and it is precisely this elasticity that we person prioritised.”

Operations astatine nan Vejen works are scheduled to statesman astir 1 October this year. Danish Crown said it plans to debone astir 60,000 pork fore ends a week astatine nan facility, which is located successful buildings nan group already owns.

The earthy worldly for nan Vejen works will beryllium originated from Danish Crown’s slaughterhouses successful Horsens, Herning, Rønne and Blans adjacent Sønderborg. The caller mill will inhabit portion of astir 14,000 quadrate metres of premises that Danish Crown acquired successful 2023.

The investment follows an soul reorganisation astatine Danish Crown announced past April, erstwhile nan institution divided what it termed its “core business” into 3 abstracted divisions: Danish Crown Industry, Danish Crown Foods and Danish Crown UK.

Jesper Sørensen, SVP of accumulation astatine Danish Crown Industry, added: “In caller months, we person been utilising nan deboning capacity astatine our Danish slaughterhouses to nan fullest, which is why we request to expand.

“By establishing a specialised accumulation installation successful Vejen, we tin execute very precocious efficiency. At nan aforesaid time, it will trim complexity astatine our abattoirs, allowing them to run much efficiently arsenic well.”

Danish Crown has begun seeking nan basal regulatory approvals for nan project.

It expects permits to beryllium secured earlier nan extremity of nan first 4th of nan year, paving nan measurement for accumulation to tally connected a two-shift ground from 1 October.