Falcon Marine Exports Limited (FMEL) is one pioneering organization that has been able to not only create a niche but also develop into one of the most preferred names in the industry. Being in the seafood industry for nearly four decades, FMEL has operations spread across India and in select overseas market as well. Equipped with state of art factories and modern machineries, Falcon Marine Exports has been able to ensure top quality products while at the same time prioritizing on sustainability. The company under the leadership of industry stalwarts remain committed to offer safe products to the customers and their ability to store and distribute products to all retail and food service around the world make them stand at level pegging with the best in the industry.
Driven By The Passion For Excellence
Falcon Marine Exports Limited offers value added ready to cook products like Raw Easy Peel, Raw Peeled Deveined Tail off, Raw Peeled Deveined Tail on etc.. The company further process the value added ready to cook products to make ready to eat products like Cooked Peeled Deveined Tail on, and Cooked Peeled Deveined Tail off among many others. Apart from that, FMEL goes one step further to make Butterfly Tail on cut, and Skewered Shrimp and are aiming to produce high-end value-added products like breaded shrimp in near future.
The company’s commitment to never compromise on the quality of their offerings and BAP approved factories as well as farms and feed mills allow them to stay one step ahead of their competition in this competitive market. Adding more about the customer-centric aspect of their operations, Shri Tara Ranjan Patnaik who is the Chairman of the company says “We process our products as per the customer specifications.
We invite our customers to visit our aqua-culture sites and factories so that they can feel the quality standards we are practicing in our supply chain. Moreover, our facilities are certified with many food safety management standards like BAP, BRC, IFS which increases trust of customer on us. We are having dedicated team to address the requirement of our customers and ensure our product meets beyond the customer expectations. We also go the extra mile by offering 100 percent traceability seed to the end users. And it is this attention we give even to the minutest details that helps us to strive for sustained success in the market”. To ensure the highest quality, Falcon Marine Exports have five seafood processing state of art
facilities which can make frozen raw IQF shrimp, Frozen Raw Block shrimp and Frozen cooked IQF shrimps. The company’s quality check starts before the harvest and technicians from their purchase department visit the farms before harvest to check whether the shrimp is of good quality. They collect samples and sent to laboratory for antibiotic residue analysis. Once the product meets the company’s standards, then the harvest happens. Strict quality standards are maintained during harvest, transportation and further processing at processing facility. The product undergoes various quality checks before they export it. The product is analysed in both in-house and external laboratories for both micro biological parameter and chemical parameters. Apart from this, all their facilities are enabled with fullfledged laboratories which can do major micro biology parameters and chemical parameters applicable to shrimp industry.
A Global Pioneer In The Seafoods Market
Falcon Marine Exports are working through seafood distributors located overseas. The company send their products to distributors and get it distributed to the customer market. Falcon Marine Exports’major market is US followed by China, Canada, France, Italy, other EU Markets, Vietnam, Middle East etc. The company is constantly updating themselves with the changes which are happening in the industry. Leaders of the company are participating in seminars, shows and presentations to get themselves updated with the changes in industry. Aside from this, Falcon Marine Exports always work with their customers and offer solutions to their problems innovatively. As part of their evolution, the company will be adding new products like shrimp rings, and breaded shrimps into their portfolio in the near future. Also, next year the company is coming up with two new factories which will increase their production capacity by fifty percent.
Giving us more insights into their future plans, Shri Tara Ranjan Patnaik adds “We are setting up two new processing facilities one at Deras seafood park, Odisha and the other one in Nellore district in the State of Andhra Pradesh with an estimated capital outlay of INR 175 Crore or USD 23 million. Each factory will be contributing an additional production capacity of 50MT per day. The existing feed plant in Tangi, Odisha is having four lines with a production capacity of 200 MT per day. Company is planning to add one more line in near future which will take the capacity to 320 MT per day. The total production capacity of seafood exports division will increase to 170MT - 175MT per day due to the enhanced production capacity in the existing plants. The quantity may further increase to 270MT per day with the addition of new processing factories. We have set a target of around Rs 2000 crore for marine exports and Rs 375 Crore from feed business in the financial year 2022-2023.
Falcon commitment to never compromise On the quality of their offerings and BAP approved factories as well as farms And feed mills allow them to stay one Step ahead of their competition in this Competitive market
Tara Ranjan Patnaik, Chairman
A pioneer in the Seafood industry, Tara Ranjan Patnaik has reshaped India’s shrimp export landscape with innovative ideas and a strong passion for excellence and has taken Falcon Marine Exports Limited (FMEL) to greater heights. Under his able guidance and leadership FMEL has remained one of the top shrimp exporters of India for more than two decades. Shri Patnaik and his commitment to quality has been one of the primary catalysts that has helped FMEL to develop into one of the most prominent names in the marine exports market. The 64-year-old entrepreneur is committed to never compromise on the quality of their offerings and he has instilled this philosophy within FMEL. As a passionate learner, Shri Patnaik aspires to guide FMEL in this highly dynamic market segment and help them perform to their full potential.
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