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.”
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