Acme Smoked Fish Corporation is expanding its operations by adding a new production facility in Chile, it said in a statement.

The Acme-Chile division will give the company "full control" over its raw material for its US smoking operations and is the "final link to the company's comprehensive cold smoked manufacturing strategy," it said.

"Extensive research has proven that raw material plays a monumental role in the assurance of quality and safe smoked salmon, which is why we added the Chile facility," said Gabriel Viteri, VP of strategy and business development at Acme Smoked Fish.

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