date:Jun 06, 2012
The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) is investing 750,000 in the facility at Arnish, on Lewis, which is expected to be operating within a month.
It is the latest stage in the redevelopment of the Marybank processing plant, which reopened in the autumn of 2010 creating 70 jobs.
SSC's general manager in Stornoway, Alan Brown, said: The facility, which will work in tandem with our existing harvest station at Lochinver, will greatly improve efficiency at Marybank by enabling us to start processing ea