Chilean salmon producer Blumar said its Entrevientos processing plant, built under a joint venture with Multiexport Foods, will open in June after a delay related to the coronavirus lockdown.

The opening of the 50,000 metric-ton capacity site was pushed back from April because the Punta Arenas area in southern Chile was under coronavirus lockdown measures for five weeks, Blumar CEO Gerardo Balbontin told IntraFish.

Built at a cost of $55 million (€49.6