A West Midlands company has completed a contract for a key player in Iceland’s fishing industry.
PP Control & Automation (
www.ppcanda.com), which employs 230 people at its ‘state of the art’ factory in Cheslyn Hay, provided Hedinn with early-stage design support and electrical control systems for the Hedinn Protein Plant (HPP), designed to make fishmeal and fish oil production — on land or sea — more economical and efficient than was previously possible.
The HPP has been installed in the Icelandic vessel Solberg and the German vessel Berlin.
In addition, projects are well advanced for installations in the Faroe Islands and the USA — for processing produce including lobster shells.
Tony Hague, managing director of PP Control & Automation, said: “We are seeing a significant trend in larger machine builders focusing on strategic out-sourcing.
“Hedinn is an example of the strategic partnerships we are looking to create, and we are delighted to have played a role in delivering next-generation machinery for the fishing sector.
"We are currently helping Hedinn to standardise a number of its manufacturing processes to help it meet the anticipated demand when the market fully embraces HPP.”
The HPP is a turn-key plant that can be assembled on land or at sea. Ragnar Sverrisson, Hedinn’s managing director, said: “This technology dictated a partner that could provide advanced controls plus automation assembly and design expertise and wanted to be involved from the start.
“When we looked for a partner, PP Control & Automation was easily the most suitable and had the same passion for the product.”