Viking Malt opens new malting
Viking Malt, with its operative centre in Lahti, Finland, has officially opened its new malting in Panevezys/Lithuania on 26 August 2004.
In addition to the new maltings of 60,000 tonnes annual capacity, the investment includes
- modernization of barley intake
- new silo capacity for malting barley
- modernization of the existing silo for malt storage and malt deliveries
- possibility to easily increase capacity up to 120,000 tonnes
The value of the investment is around EUR28 million.
With this new production unit, together with the almost finished construction of a second malting house in Halmstad, Sweden, Viking Malt will have a total annual malt capacity of 340.000 tonnes.
- There is space enough on the site for additional expansions in the future..
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