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Danish Crown creates 100 new jobs in Vejen

Pork

Over the next nine months, Danish Crown will establish a new production facility in Vejen, where around 100 employees will debone ends from Danish pigs.

Posted on Jan 09 ,00:10

With increasing supplies of pigs from Danish farmers, Danish Crown will need additional capacity for the deboning of Danish pigs. By expanding production in Denmark, Danish Crown secures the opportunity to export the finished products from the new factory to attractive markets in Asia, among others.

"It is fantastic that we are now going to hire more employees. This is the result of us once again having more pigs for slaughter, because that requires more hands. We have therefore carefully assessed where and how we could expand our production. By doing it in Denmark, we can both sell the goods fresh in Europe and export them frozen to our customers all over the world, and it is precisely this flexibility that we have prioritized", says Niels Ulrich Duedahl, Group CEO at Danish Crown.

Starting around October 1st this year, the plan is to debone 60,000 pig forequarters every week at the premises on Industrivej Syd in Vejen, which Danish Crown already owns. The cuts will be supplied from the group's slaughterhouses in Horsens, Herning, Rønne and Blans near Sønderborg.

"In recent months, we have actually fully utilized our boning capacity at our Danish slaughterhouses, so we need to expand. By establishing a specialized production in Vejen, we can achieve a very high level of efficiency. At the same time, it will take some complexity out of our slaughterhouses, so that they can actually produce more efficiently", says Jesper Sørensen, production director for the pig slaughterhouses at Danish Crown.  

The new factory will be established in part of the approximately 14,000 square meter buildings that Danish Crown took over on April 1, 2023. The buildings are already designed for food production, which is precisely why Danish Crown took advantage of the buildings when they came up for sale. However, it will require minor reconstruction and modernization of the premises before they can be put back into use.

"The factory in Vejen is ideally located geographically in relation to our three Jutland slaughterhouses. At the same time, it is in an area with a tradition of food production, so we see good opportunities to attract the necessary workforce", says Jesper Sørensen.

Danish Crown has already initiated the process of applying for the necessary permits. It is expected that they can be in place by the end of the first quarter of 2026, and then everything will be ready to produce in two shifts from October 1. 

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