Aquaculture is by far one of the fastest growing food production systems in the world with bulk of the output currently being produced within the developing countries like Bangladesh, India, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam. At NYCER Seafood, our production and processing plant (Asian Seafood Ltd, BD) in Khulna, Bangladesh has long standing approval from EU (Approval No: KLN-08) and US FDA (Green Ticket No: BK-23) to frequently ship seafood to these countries.
Setup of the Plants
Our processing plant is capable of handling 40-80 metric tons of head-on shrimp a day. Typically, M/S Marel/Carnitech (Denmark) supplied and installed most of the processing equipments. M/S Jonsson (USA) supplied the peeling machines and Mycon (Japan) supplied the refrigeration systems. The plants are designed to process a wide variety of products from simple block frozen products to high-value ready to eat individually quick frozen and cooked products.
Our shrimp reach these plants in less than an hour after harvest and are processed and packed in less than six hours after harvest. These plants have large, fully automated chill rooms that can hold up to 25-40 tons of whole shrimp as it comes in from the farms.
Generally at our typical partners’ processing plants there are three major processing lines, a head-on line with the capacity to handle two tons an hour, a headless line with the capacity to handle 1.2 tons an hour, and a peeling line with the capacity to handle one ton of raw shrimp an hour. Three plate freezers can freeze 20-30 tons of shrimp a day, and two spiral freezers can freeze 3-5 tons per hour. There are two flow pack machines from Sandiacre. As part of the worldwide marketing strategy, great importance has been given to the implementation of HACCP and ISO quality control systems.
Feed Mill
The typical capacity load is 10-15 tons per hour. BUHLER (Switzerland) installed the machinery and technology.
Intake Pumping Station
The intake pump stations were designed to create a flow of heavy load of static heads. It is equipped with twelve Amacan submersible, vertical pumps. The length of the intake canal tends to be around 18-22 miles long!
Drain Pumping Station
The return water pump station is designed for a flow rate of 240 cu/ft/sec at a static head of 5.2 ft. It is equipped with 17 Amaline submersible, horizontal pumps. The total length of the return water canal is 22-25 miles.
Shrimp Head Powder
The offal plant processes fresh shrimp heads into shrimp head powder, which NPC sells as a feed ingredient in laminated, polypropylene bags weighing either 55 or 110 lbs.