Operations have resumed at the 2 Sisters Food Group poultry plant in Llangefni, Wales.
The company idled the plant on June 18 because of health and safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The plant reopened on July 3.
“As a responsible company, we believe we took the right action by temporarily suspending operations for 14 days so we could be sure all our people were kept safe and we had an opportunity to supplement our existing control measures,” 2 Sisters Food Group stated in a news release.
“As one of the largest employers on the Isle of Anglesey, we are more than aware of our responsibility in the community to ensure we act with care and keep everyone as safe as possible. Swiftly closing our factory was only the first step in doing this, and over the past two weeks we have left no stone unturned in our pursuit of ‘best in class’ COVID-19 measures.”
The company plans to bring the processing plant up to full production, but it will be done in phases. All team members at the plant will be briefed on the full range of new measures in place to manage the risks associated with COVID-19. Once all employees are briefed, limited production will commence, with operations gradually increasing until production reaches normal capacity.
During the downtime, 2 Sisters Food Group worked with the Welsh government, Public Health Wales, the Health and Safety Executive, Anglesey County Council, the U.K. Food Standards Agency, and Unite the Union.
2 Sisters Food Group, according to the Poultry International Top Companies survey, is the largest poultry producer in the United Kingdom. It ranks as the seventh largest poultry company in Europe and the 26th largest in the world.
2 Sisters Group is a subsidiary of Boparan Holdings. One of the 10 largest privately held companies in the U.K., 2 Sisters Food Group supplies about one-third of all poultry products consumed in the U.K.
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