Icelandic equipment manufacturer Marel is poised to take advantage of the fact many of the major Chilean salmon companies starting to farm in the south of the country -- in the Magallanes region -- where a whole new fledgling processing sector is ripe for the taking.

The largest and most automated primary salmon processing plant in the world is in Chile.

Marel's Diego Lages

“A number of companies are moving to the south, to Magallanes or region XII, where new farming licenses have been given,” Diego Lages, sales director for Marel Fish, told IntraFish at the recent Salmon ShowHow in Copenhagen.