Eilidh Marshall
Modern Apprenticeship to become a specialist food processor now available at Mowi
Mowi has collaborated with Skills Development Scotland (SDS) and UHI West Highland to create a new Modern Apprenticeship (MA) allowing young people to train to become a specialist food processor. The MA is full-time and apprentices will be based at Mowi’s Blar Mhor processing facility in Fort William. Apprentices will receive the SCQF Level 5
A yurt from a feed pipe
The team at KelpCrofting, a seaweed farming business on the Isle of Skye, wanted to build a storage shed and managed to do so based on the design of a yurt and using materials which were all upcycled. Mowi gave 2km of plastic feed pipe, 90mm in diameter, which was used to form the walls
Blar Mhor achieves highest grade in BRC audit
Congratulations to the team at Blar Mhor who were awarded AA+, the highest possible grade, in a recent unannounced audit undertaken by the British Retail Consortium (BRC). The audit is an official assessment of a food manufacturer’s adherence to the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety and involves a thorough examination of all processes and
Mowi to test first-of-its-kind water purification system
Tony Boyd and Joshua Holder from Benchmark Animal Health with Dougie Hunter Mowi is pleased to be involved in a trial supported by the University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture and the Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC), which will test the efficacy of CleanTreat in removing traces of medicine used to treat sea lice from
Knowledge exchange with Norway
Visit to Valøyan site to view harvest operations Last month, Mowi Scotland’s David Gray and Ronan Taylor from the Caol Mor farm on Skye visited farms at Valøyan, Tennøya, Mannbruholmen and Grøttingsøy in Norway to get operational training on the use of 160m and 200m pens. Norway has been using 160m pens since the early
On the road to zero
Paul Gordon from Gofor Finance Ltd hands over keys to Mowi’s Becky Bashir Mowi Scotland is on the road to zero with the addition of electric vehicles to the fleet and more set to follow in 2023. The move is a significant step in Mowi’s strategy to have a zero emission/hybrid fleet by 2025. The
Enhancing health and safety knowledge
Extensive training has taken place in the Mowi Farming division to enhance the health and safety knowledge of our managers, skippers and others holding positions of responsibility. Between September 2021 and March 2022, 35 members of staff completed the IOSH Managing Safely course run by West Highland College in Fort William. Head of Health and
