Two freshly developed products for a UK retailer dominate the new business and are expected to deliver sales worth £3.5M.
One is a chilled, added-value hot smoked salmon product comprising four slices, which utilises the vacuum skin packing system pioneered by the company. The second product is flaked salmon chilled in a top-seal pack. An additional £1M turnover will come from the sale of three trout products a ready to eat paté; butterfly fillets; and trout portions with prawns, chilli and coriander.
Spinks has spent £200,000 on processing equipment to make the products, including an additional vacuum skin packing machine from equipment supplier VC999. The machine enhances preservation and presentation.
A further £100,000 has been spent on improving production lines for the new trout products.
Spinks, part of the Dawnfresh Seafoods group, received funding from Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Executive.
"This raft of new ideas and there are many more in the pipeline demonstrates that Spinks is a leading innovator in the smoked seafood sector," said Spinks director Gary Greenwood.
The new business has created 30 full-time jobs in the factory.
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