BAADER Blog

BAADER Iceland delivers efficiency, precision, and reliability to seafood processors worldwide. Discover how our advanced machinery is shaping the future of the industry.

Baldvin Johnsen is Managing Director of BAADER Iceland since the end of last year. In this interview, he talks about times of upheaval, how Iceland is increasingly turning to salmon processing, and how he spent his summer holidays catching fish in the northeast of the island as a teenager.

From humble beginnings to a leader in fish processing technology, BAADER Iceland has played a crucial role in shaping Iceland's seafood industry. Discover how this pioneering company overcame challenges, embraced innovation, and became a cornerstone of modern fish processing.

As Ramadan approaches, poultry consumption is soaring across Muslim-majority countries, driven by cultural traditions, economic factors, and nutritional benefits. Learn how BAADER’s solutions can help sustain growth during such times and how markets respond to seasonal highs.

At IPPE 2025 in Atlanta, we celebrated a double success with Emydex: Their second joint appearance at IPPE as well as their expansion into new markets, serving their first shared customer, Murray’s Chicken. Join Co-CEO David McMahon as he reflects on this successful partnership and shares a glimpse of exciting future projects.

KemperKip, a family business based in The Netherlands, has been passionately dedicated to delivering the highest quality organic chicken products to the discerning Dutch market since the early 1990s. The Kemper family’s commitment to recreating the traditional, rich taste of chicken and developing a sustainable business model has been the cornerstone of their success. This highly specialized small-scale processor relentlessly maximize the use of each bird, producing high-demand products such as whole birds, breast fillets and deboned dark meat, while transforming less demanded parts into high-quality, convenient, and delicious products for consumers.

There’s no doubt about it: Virtuality has its advantages. You can practise handling large machines that are hard or expensive to procure. You can also perform virtual commissioning before traveling to remote customer locations. The industrial metaverse is a great field of experimentation – and one that has already been tested and embraced at BAADER.

Since its establishment in 1988 in the Guayas province, Ecuador, Avícola San Isidro S.A. (AVISID) has evolved from a small-scale farming operation into a significant player in local and export poultry production. Recognizing the limitations of their existing processing plant in Guayas, AVISID set out to transform their business into an efficient, globally competitive processing facility. This strategic move aimed to harness new commercial opportunities and meet the increasing demand for convenience products in Ecuador and its neighbouring countries.

How do you ensure hygiene during fish processing? Siemens took this challenge to Torsten Rusko, Head of Mechanical Design at BAADER. In “unpacked”, the Siemens Packaging Podcast, he gave a super compact introduction into hygienic machine design basics.