The Joint-Venture between the Danish
BioMar Group and the Chinese Tongwei Group took another important step, when
they Friday morning inaugurated a new production line for extruded feed and a
new warehouse at the Haiwei plant in Southern China. BioMar Group was represented at the
inauguration by Henrik Aarestrup, Vice President Emerging Markets and Niels
Alsted, Vice Chairman of the board BioMar-Tongwei. "The new extruder line is part of an
upgrade of the factory where we have replaced older equipment with more
efficient technology. Together with our Chinese partner Tongwei we want to
continue the growth of Haiwei and that requires a series of upgrades and also a
new large warehouse. Altogether it will make us more flexible towards the
customers and allow for continued growth", explained Henrik Aarestrup. He informed that BioMar-Tongwei has had a
good start of the year at the plant, which continues the growth experienced in
the last couple of years: "We expect to sell around 60,000 tons this year. We
have a very strong team headed by our General Manager Mr. Liu in place in
Haiwei, and they have already more than doubled their sales in the last three
years." The Haiwei factory is located in the Pearl
River Delta in an area with a large production of, among other species,
Japanese Sea Bass and and Snakehead. "We estimate, that the farmers represented
at the inauguration lunch all together annually produces more than 200,000 tons
of fish, so we still have room for growth with Haiwei", said Henrik Aarestrup. The aquaculture production in the Pearl
River Delta is competing with a fast urban development. "Access to water and
space suitable for fish farming is an increasing challenge. Our knowhow in high
performance environmentally friendly diets will therefore become more relevant
in the years to come and we have already initiated several development projects
targeting the species grown in the Delta area", concluded Henrik Aarestrup. 
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