The Morpol Production process

Transported with care in an unbroken cool chain, fresh salmon are unpacked and processed at Morpol’s dedicated plant in Ustka on the Baltic coast of Northern Poland. The Pomeranian area has a long history of fishing and fish processing, offering a workforce ready accustomed to the stringent requirements of fish processing.

Our plant is purpose designed and unique to Morpol, as is the processing and smoking equipment. It is the largest and most technologically advanced salmon processing facility in the world. Scale brings benefits of efficiency that keep costs down and enable us to make best use of all by-products from processing. For example trimmings are further processed into delicious snacks, sausages and other products and polystyrene boxes are crushed, re-pelletized and sold as raw materials to the plastics industry.

Efficient people, equipment and workflow mean salmon are processed, packaged and despatched in just 24 hours.

Salmon smoking

Fillets are trimmed to produce a high quality product ideal for smoking and slicing. Salting and storing in controlled temperature and humidity conditions draws out moisture and preserves quality. Drying in specially designed rooms further enhances texture, colour and consistency. Cold or hot smoking using locally sourced sustainable beech chippings gives our salmon its distinct and delicious flavour that is winning customers across Europe and beyond.

Traceability

Our traceability system enables us to trace back from the final pack to details of how and when we processed it, and back again to the original suppliers with specific batch numbers and dates. The origin of all ingredients is recorded on arrival. They are tracked through the entire process together with information on dates, times, destinations and customers, all linked with the final product lot code.

Logistics

The Morpol plant on Poland’s Baltic coast is well located to receive fish by sea or road from Norway and Scotland, and elsewhere. It is also convenient for despatch of Morpol products by road and air. Most of our European destinations are reached by road within 24 hours. By air, our products are on retailer shelves in the US within 48 hours of despatch from our plant.