Danish Crown’s Beef Division is expanding and increasing capacity at its slaughterhouse in Husum in Schleswig- Holstein. Investments are primarily being made in the cutting facility at the German slaughterhouse, which is being enlarged to boost capacity from the current level of 400 tonnes in November 2008 to 600 tonnes in the longer term. - The operating economy of the cutting facility has proved particularly attractive, and we therefore want to expand activities through more deboning of our own products, increased purchases from external suppliers and possibly the procurement of raw materials from Denmark, explains Lorenz Hansen, Managing Director of Danish Crown’s Beef Division.

In recent years, the cutting facility has supplied debonings and individual cuts to the entire European market, including regular exports to Russia from the very outset.