Jens Uwe Radloff met Norwegian Minister of Fisheries at Aqua-Nor 2007

 Veteran and Debutant!

Trondheim: In the year 1967 Jens Uwe Radloff came on a 14 days trip to Norway from Baader in Germany. Now he has been here for 40 years, and has a wife and 3 grown-up children in Berlevåg. On Tuesday the veteran met the Minister of Fisheries, “neighbour” and Exhibition Debutant during her tour after the opening of the exhibition this year.

- I’m nearly a “finnmarking”, Radloff state, who is an image in the fish-industry. Since 1957 he has serviced Baader machinery, and not for long time ago he got honoured “home in Germany” after 50 incredible years in the same company, and he does not know the number of how many exhibition he has been to.

While Helga Pedersen, the Minister, has given all her priority to her child Anna, her travelling this last year has been less than usual, this has never been an issue for Jens Uwe Radloff.

- I haven’t been under 290 travelling days and nights during the years, and I’m still travelling for over 300 days and nights a year, the miracle man tells us, until today he has not been overcome by a machine.  – Jens Uwe has the solution for everything, his colleagues said about him.

We have trouble with understanding that he has had time to establish a family. That too he has managed to do without trouble. He met his wife in 1971, and they have 3 grown-up children. He presents himself as a “berlevåging”. But the whole coast is his working place.

Already in the middle of the 1990 decade, he was selected to the person of the year in Norsk fiskerinæring. More than 10 years later he is a legend.

 What he remembers best? He remembers when the first gutting machine for salmon came 10 years ago. Before that everything was gutting by hand. During 3 days, we got 76 order, this was a revolution, Jens Uwe Radloff state.

The challenge today is to get a system that functions with automatic infeed and after cleaning, with this system processers will just need 2 persons to operate 3 machines.

- It will come, he promises, the man who is a technical wonder. The challenge in Norway is not a technical kind, he tells us. The problem will be to get enough capacity for work. And today there are just work 3 to 4 persons on a gutting machine, before it needed 10 persons. With over one hundred filets factories along the coast, this part of the industry is one of Baader’s main focus.