Continuous renewal is an essential quality aspect. Stagnation after all means decline. Heiploeg is thoroughly aware of this and the company is, therefore, continuously involved with new developments. Producing fresh shrimp products, in particular, is, after all, a specialisation that is found at only a few companies globally. Technique and technology must, accordingly, often be developed in-house. Our own people, supported by external experts where necessary, are always looking for innovations. These could be related to the area of product development but also, for example, to the area of processing with the aim of obtaining an efficient operational management system in the factory, having fewer shrimp contamination risks, improving working methods for employees and ensuring the environmental load is reduced.
A few examples: The fact that all ingredients that are used when processing shrimp are made in-house from pure food-grade basic materials such as salts, citric acids and other materials is typical of Heiploeg. This method means that we know exactly which materials come in contact with the shrimp, for example, when preserving. By constantly performing tests at our internal laboratory, these technologies and methods of preparation are consistently being improved. Heiploeg also designs a large part of the processing machines used in the factory. Quality and efficiency of the processing process are, of course, taken into account when designing and building machines but we also take working conditions for staff (safety, noise levels) and environmental aspects (energy requirements) into consideration.
Summarising, Heiploeg makes numerous choices to arrive at a full production process. We attempt to make all these choices in such a way that we comply with the quality principle in the broadest sense. The above involves aspects such as shrimp from sustainable shrimping and cultivation, energy-saving aspects, safe machines that produce little noise, phosphate-free cleaning agents, biodegradable disinfectants that do not require much effort, but also far-reaching waste separation, recyclable packaging materials and a safe working environment.
