US private equity snaps up East Coast surimi firm
Salt Creek Capital has announced the acquisition of LM Foods, which serves both retail and manufacturing customer bases around the world
Japan’s processors pay keen attention to pollock surimi price for B season
Japanese surimi paste processors are planning to raise their sales prices in the fall, and are keeping an eye on season B prices as fishing is due to kick off
UFP moves into surimi as part of diversification from shrimp
Union Frozen Products (UFP), one of Thailand’s largest shrimp and seafood processors, has moved into surimi production as part of a diversification strategy from shrimp
Expanding Indian surimi processor moves into shrimp
Surimi processor Gadre Marine Export, which snapped up a plant from Hindustan Unilever last year, told Undercurrent News it is now expanding into shrimp
Lucky Union extending surimi plant on Asian demand
Thai Union, LG joint venture to install extra lines and expand capacity to 35,000 metric tons of product per year, as Thai domestic and Asian demand shows growth
LF Food invests $9m in Indonesian surimi block plant
Korean LG subsidiary puts up money to build 8,000t factory near Jakarta, to process tropical fish into raw surimi and supply Lucky Union's Thai and Polish plants
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US West Coast hake season start approaching with uncertainty over Ukraine
On the Seattle waterfront, fishing industry executives are readying for the May 15 hake season start, but even though they quota is high, they're mulling how much they'll actually catch
Pacific whiting producers shift to surimi production on Crimea crisis woes
Trident, Alber Seafoods and other Pacific whiting processors in Oregon are shifting focus to surimi in effort to avoid getting burnt on sales to politically tumultuous Eastern bloc
Surimi Forum discussion zeroes in on grading
Work needs to be done to establish a common method to measure surimi base quality, panelists said at the 2014 Surimi Forum in Astoria, Oregon on Thursday