Turkish mill gears up for production
The Biomar-Sagun fish feed factory in Turkey has successfully completed its first test production run – paving the way for supplying Europe’s second largest aquaculture industry with trout, bream and bass feeds later this summer.
The facility is a joint venture, split 50/50 between the Danish aquafeed firm and the Turkish aquaculture supplier.
Bora Aydemir, General Manager of the facility, said: “We expect start-up tests of the Söke factory to run until mid-July and will then then supply locally produced grower feeds for trout, sea bass and sea bream to our customers, while the more specialised feed types in the Biomar-Sagun product portfolio, like hatchery diets and fry feeds, are being produced in other Biomar factories.”
The joint venture benefits from being close to Turkish fish farmers, allowing the companies to react to the special requirements of the market, while benefitting of the know-how of Biomar within areas like fish feed development, sourcing, and feed manufacturing.
Aydemir continues: “Our scope as a local feed provider is perfectly in line with Biomar's global targets for delivering innovative, specialised high performance fish feed solutions with a sustainable profile, and an outstanding technical customer service. Biomar is the leading supplier of high performance feed to sea bass, sea bream, and trout in Europe, and this will largely benefit the Turkish fish farming sector.
“From our plant in Söke we will mainly serve Turkey, the second largest aquaculture market in Europe, but we will also start export sales to some of the neighbouring countries.”
