Vion prepares to close one of its pork production facilities
The management of Vion Pork announced the proposed closure of the Valkenswaard location. The redistribution of activities will result in a broader choice for customers, more efficiency and a more sustainable way of working, informed Vion Food Group in a press release.
The production activities of Vleesindustrie Valkenswaard will be redistributed to the Vion Scherpenzeel, Vion Emstek and Encebe Vleeswaren locations. Vion Scherpenzeel and Vion Emstek will take over Vleesindustrie Valkenswaard’s production of fat for the Japanese market. Encebe Vleeswaren will take over the production of almost all other products; this is the majority of Vleesindustrie Valkenswaard’s current activities.
Encebe Vleeswaren has invested in a new production technique, with which Vion can offer its customers a broader range of products. Only back fat from Dutch and German pigs will be processed. In the new situation, the fat will be available in all quality standards (QS, Good Farming Organic, Good Farming Star, Good Farming Balance).
"The redistribution of activities is an important step for Vion. “This will enable customers to choose from an even broader range of products. Besides this, it also results in more efficiency and more sustainable production due to the decrease in the number of transport movements. Internal logistics within Vion will improve. Optimizing the production chain is one of the focal points in Vion Pork’s strategy," says John de Jonge, COO Vion Pork.
The factory in Valkenswaard has 40 employees that are to be relocated to other facilities owned by Vion until April 2020. Vleesindustrie Valkenswaard produces lard and fat. The main products include:
– barding fat: very thinly sliced slabs of fat for the white edging around certain processed meat products;
– lard: thicker sliced fat to be processed in other meat products;
– caps of back fat: for use in combination with ham products;
– other products, such as fat cubes, back fat, back fat trimmings and rind.
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