New Zealand-New lamb plant opens.

NEW ZEALAND.

NEW LAMB PLANT.

Silver Fern Farms (SFF):

Silver Fern Farms, have just completed NZ$25 million in renovations on their main meat plant at Finegand, in New Zealand.

The beef line has been extended, and there has been a third lamb line put in that will bring production up to 15,000 lambs per day in the season.

There was $3 million spent on a new lamb cutting room, for chilled vacuum packed lamb cuts and $4 million on the beef boning hall.

This is now the most modern meat processing plant in New Zealand.

The most interesting factor, is the rendered tallow is being used as bio-fuel, to generate the plants boilers, this is cost effective as well as environmental friendly, according to Keith Cooper the CEO.

Prior to the new lamb cutting operation, the plant was limited to carcass lamb exports only.

Cooper said "the large investment of $25 million into the plant has made us virtually self sufficient".

New Zealand have led the world for many years, in the latest technology in the meat processing industry, the vertical lamb dressing system, first introduced in Fletcher International, at Dubbo NSW, Australia, was all NZ technology.

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