Tour of Royal Greenland Koszalin
The Royal Greenland factory in Koszalin, Poland is a state of the art combined fileting and processing facility - A European champion in flatfish processing and the prolonged arm of the company’s Greenlandic facilities.
Facts about the Koszalin factory
Royal Greenland began production in the Koszalin factory in 2008 and the volume has grown year-on-year since then. The site consists of 3 production halls with numerous fileting lines, production lines, development kitchen and 13 packaging lines specialized for both retail and food service concepts.
The Koszalin factory is certified according to the standards of British Retail Consortium (BRC), International Food Standard (IFS), Marine Stewardship Counsil (MSC) and all routines are following a detailed HACCP procedure.
Production runs in two shifts, 6 days a week with well over 500 employees. The fileting factory is focusing on flatfish fileting and specializes primarily in plaice and flounder. The placement of the factory right next to the Baltic Sea is the perfect fit for sourcing fresh fish from the North European waters, and the short transportation to the European population gives an efficient logistics service to customers across Europe.
Raw material
The factory processes raw material from the local fileting factory, but also produce with raw material from the company’s Greenlandic landing and fileting facilities i.e. products based on Greenlandic cod, turbot, redfish and catfish.
“The synergy of having both fileting and processing under one roof in Koszalin is that the fresh fish can be cut exactly to the specification of each product” says Product Manager Gabriela Gawel and explains how a flatfish can be cut in numerous ways “we offer a complex matrix of fish types and cuts on one axis and a wealth of breading and batter systems on the other. It gives our customer the opportunity to choose a market standard product or design their own version”.
Product categories
The two main product groups for the Koszalin factory is breaded and battered fish – especially flatfish, together with natural portions from both own and sourced fisheries, but more specialized categories are added each year. Within all categories, the flexible production is the key to a constant development of the assortments, and new innovations are continuously launched.
Read more about the different concepts from Royal Greenland, Koszalin here
