Morten Bondestad started as operations manager at BEWI on Senja in February 2021. The factory opens in August and his work is focused on getting everything to run smoothly.
– All inventories, machinery, equipment and production lines were ordered early on, so I follow up and make sure that everything goes according to plan, says Morten Bondestad.
All machinery and control systems should be installed, tested and ready for production in August. With everything in place, production capacity will be impressive. The packaging production is fully automated and each and every machine and vent are controlled with compressed air.
Three employees work at the plant already and more staff will be added in autumn, so production can work in shifts when the fish-processing plant runs at full capacity.
– We’ll use the first six months to getting to know the factory and SalMar.
– SalMar is the most important client and the reason we’re building this factory. They have the highest priority, says Morten Bondestad.
– They and we both have new plants here. This is the first fully-integrated factory in northern Norway, which means new processes for orders and logistics. There will be many new ways of working together and everything needs to be finetuned, says Bondestad.
