Win-Win for NZ Meat Industry

In a move seen as highly advantageous to New Zealand’s meat industry and independent renderers, the World’s largest manufacturer and supplier of rendering and petfood processing systems, Haarslev Industries of Denmark, has acquired the Auckland rendering equipment designer and installer, Flo-Dry Engineering Ltd.

Since 1983, Flo-Dry has specialised in supplying systems for low temperature rendering, drying of municipal sludge, and the manufacture of biodiesel from tallow. More recently it has launched the patented Electro D Hydro (EDH) process together with the Enersaver2 energy-efficient thermal drying process.

Claus Østergaard, CEO of Haarslev Industries says that the purchase will give New Zealand and Australian companies ready access to the latest technologies developed internationally by Haarslev.

“It will also ensure local service for the many existing installations of indirect-heated rendering systems supplied by companies previously acquired by Haarslev Industries, Stord-Bartz (Norway) and Atlas (Denmark). These companies, along with Tremesa (Spain), are part of the Haarslev Industries group that Flo-Dry has joined,” says Østergaard,

“The product portfolios and working procedures of Haarslev and Flo-Dry complement each other in a way that allows the companies to share expertise in different fields and jointly develop products of the highest quality. We aim to ensure that New Zealand industries will benefit from the wider process and product range.”

The new relationship will open up markets in Europe, USA, Asia, the Middle East and South America for Flo-Dry’s special expertise in MIRINZ-type low temperature rendering, high quality gel-bone production, biodiesel manufacture and municipal sludge treatment.

Haarslev Industries has local factories and representation in each of these markets, employing some 650 people worldwide. Existing Flo-Dry staff will be absorbed into the Haarslev family.

Tissa Fernando, the founder of Flo-Dry who will remain as the General Manger of the company, says that the merger is good news for the meat industry.

“Benefits to renderers in this country include being able to source of all types of rendering systems direct from the original designers and manufacturers, with and installers and service staff based here in New Zealand,” he says.

“Flo-Dry as part of Haarslev Industries will have the size, innovative capacity and global presence needed to succeed in what is a very competitive industry.”

About Haarslev Industries A/S

Haarslev Industries was founded by the Østergaard family in 1973 and is still partly family-owned and managed. The company has many years of experience in designing, manufacturing and installing processing equipment for the rendering, fish meal and biofuel industries world-wide as well as solutions for the fast growing market for sludge drying.

Haarslev Industries has previously acquired the companies Svaertek (Denmark), Stord-Bartz (Norway), Atlas-Stord (Denmark, Germany, USA and Peru) and Tremesa (Spain and Brazil) and integrated them into a powerful global leader within several clean-tech business areas.

Today, Haarslev Industries is present on all continents with 14 regional offices located in key markets. The group has production facilities in Denmark, Spain, Brazil, Peru and China. The group turnover in 2011 is expected to be approximately 200 million Euro. The total number of employees worldwide is approx. 650.

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