Nine Danish Crown employees are heading for the Russian city of Belgorod 800 km south of Moscow to help provide Danish know-how for a brand new Russian pig slaughterhouse. The slaughterhouse has been built, and has a capacity of 40,000 pigs a week, but its Russian owners need help running in production.

DC employees from through-out Denmark will be teaching Russians about efficient slaugh-tering south of Moscow.

One of Danish Crown’s large Russian customers, Miratog, has asked DC for assistance with running in the production equipment, and lots of employees have been interested in helping out.

From Blans to Belgorod and back
Harry Damm works daily as an instructor and journeyman cutter in the streaky bacon department in Blans. He is one of several employees travelling to Russia, where he will supervise employees in the deboning department at the slaughterhouse in Belgorod.

I’m sure it’ll be a memorable experience. It’s a big challenge professionally, and we get to know a completely new culture, says Harry Damm in November 2008.

The Danish team has three months to get the slaughterhouse running smoothly. They return home briefly at Christmas, but leave again after New Year before coming back at the end of February 2009.