Dardanel Önentaş Gıda San. A.Ş., the major canned and seafood producer in Turkey, has obtained Friend of the Sea certification for its entire tuna and clams product line. Following a thorough...
Tuna Processing News
6 International Specialties Infuse “Vier Diamanten” Tuna
Austria’s leading canned fish brand, Vier Diamanten (in English Four Diamonds), is offering its customers a line of international specialties that includes six variations of tuna from the most...
Prosalud Firming Its Grip On Central American Tuna Markets
Prosalud is one of the companies in Latin America showing, within the tuna sector, leadership on innovation and quality throughout its extensive list of products. Its Sardimar brand, which...
Thai Union Expects Recovery By End Of 2013
Thai Union Frozen Products (TUF) expects the second half of 2013 to reveal a recovery of operations as tuna prices begin to stabilize. The world’s largest seafood processor and exporter...
Calvo El Salvador Showing Strong Domestic Growth on Tuna
Domestic sales for Grupo Calvo’s El Salvador production are expected to show growth significantly through 2013, with an increase of 15 percent predicted for the close of the year. Calvo’s...
Senate Approves StarKist Lease
The American Samoa Senate has endorsed that the government’s lease with StarKist Samoa remain at the current rate of 29 cents per square foot (0.09 m²) for its renewal. The 30 year lease will...
Ivory Coast Gets Carte Blanche From EU On Tuna Exports
An approval of an unrestricted volume of EU tuna exports has been granted to the Ivory Coast after a European Union veterinary felt that the West African country had made satisfactory efforts...
John West “Infuses” No-Drain Tuna With Basil And Chili
John West has launched an Inspirations/Infusions range that introduces two new canned tuna products to the market. Hitting the shelves in attractive green and red colored lithographed...
Grupo Consorcio Opens New Tuna Processing Plant
Grupo Consocio has opened a new tuna processing plant in Santona, Spain, for the production of Atlantic albacore and skipjack. This comes as part of the company's industrial expansion plan to...
PNG Island Manus Wants Its Own Tuna Cannery
The Governor of the PNG province Manus, Charlie Benjamin, supports the idea to set up a tuna cannery in the maritime province to process all the tuna that is caught in his zone. The governor...
Cannery Already 10 Years Meets World Highest Social Standard
This year Princes Tuna Mauritius marks its ten year anniversary of certification to the highest social accountability standard (SA8000). Located in Port Louis, the Princes tuna canning...
Bumble Bee Moves To Historical Building
Bumble Bee Foods offices will take up a new location from March 2014 in the formerly Showley Brothers Candy Factory in San Diego. The US tuna brand plans to move 140 employees into the...
IFC Lends USD 10 Million To SolTuna To Expand Production Capacity
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, will lend USD 10 million to SolTuna Limited, a tuna processor located in Solomon Islands, to support expansion of capacity and enable the local economy...
PAFCO Tuna Plant Will Stay In Levuka
The Pacific Fisheries Company (PAFCO) has announced that it is willing to spend millions of dollars to export its products overseas, but it will not re-locate its tuna cannery to Viti Levu....
