HB Grandi CEO Vilhjálmur Vilhjálmsson took the symbolic first spadeful of earth at the site of the new grading unit and cold store to be built alongside the company’s factory in Reykjavík today.
Work is due to begin shortly and the new building is scheduled to be ready for use at the end of May.
According to HB Grandi production manager Torfi Th. Thorsteinsson, in charge of shore production at the company’s Reykjavík and Akranes factories, the new cold store will have a 2,600 square meter floor space and will have capacity for between 5,000 and 6,000 metric tons of frozen products.
