Icelandic equipment manufacturer Marel secured two new contracts for its FleXicut system with Iceland's Samherji and Dutch firm Parlevliet van der Plas (P&P).
The companies will install further FleXicut systems in the coming years as part of a complete modernization of their processing operations on board and ashore, Marel said.
The first of the onboard installations will be made in the third quarter of 2017.
“We’re excited to be the first to implement FleXicut onboard our vessels and benefit from the big advantage this will give us, especially in fillet utilization, which is key to the success of any whitefish processing operation,” said Thorsteinn Mar Baldvinsson, CEO of Samherji.
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