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kanDO Innovation are to supply and install automated mussel opening machines for the NIMPL plant in Tauranga. The latest Financial Statements of New Zealand seafood company Sanford Limited says, “the increased availability of mussels from the expansion of owned and other growing areas in Coromandel has allowed us to plan a significant plant expansion at the North Island Mussel Processors Limited (NIMPL) plant in Tauranga. The plant capacity will be more than doubled and the automated mussel opening technology (developed by Sanford) will be used to reduce labour costs and increase the return to Sanford (and the other NIMPL shareholders—Sealord Group Limited and Greenshell Investments Limited).” The report goes on to say, “we have successfully implemented an automated mussel opening line in Havelock [supplied and installed by kanDO Innovation] that now has the capacity to process more mussels than the cooker that feeds the line can provide. We have entered into an agreement to license the technology to our associate company North Island Mussel Processors Limited for a fee based on volumes of mussel processed. This has allowed this company to embark on a multi-million dollar expansion of its processing operations in Tauranga.” See also: Dominion Post article 28/11/2007 |
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kanDO Innovation to Supply Automated Mussel Openers to NIMPL Plant |