Vísir
An experienced and innovative fishing company that operates vessels and runs modern processing facilities in Grindavík.
visirhf.isAbout Haustak
Founded in 1999 on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwest Iceland, and a pioneer in drying fish indoors with geothermal energy.
At the start we dried most of our products outside on wooden racks. Then we began drying inside: first one container with hot air blown through it, then new facilities year by year, until Haustak became one of the largest fish drying plants in Iceland.
Today we can dry around 15,000 MT of raw material a year and export up to 3,000 MT of dried fish products to Nigeria. Since 2015 we have also produced cod liver oil, now up to 1,000 MT a year.
Our owners
Ganti
Fishing company in Grindavík that operates the fresh-fish trawler Hulda Björnsdóttir GK and processes lightly salted cod fillets.
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Grindavík Seafood
Fishing company in Grindavík that operates the freezer trawler Tómas Þorvaldsson, which provides high quality frozen fish.
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Þorbjörn
Fishing company in Grindavík that operates the freezer trawler Hrafn Sveinbjarnarson, which provides high quality frozen fish.
Our history
- Before 1999
The buildings Haustak later bought to dry fish were a dogfood factory.
Dogfood factory in facilities that Haustak later bought to dry fish - 1997
Þurrkhúsið in Reykjanes, later sold and now part of Haustak.
Þurrkhúsið Reykjanesi in 1997 - 1999
Haustak is founded by a few fishing companies on the Reykjanes Peninsula. Soon only two remain, Vísir and Þorbjörn.
- 2001
Haustak’s old facilities.
- 2008
Outside drying in Reykjanes.
- 2015
We start producing cod liver oil from liver landed by the boats.
- Today
One of Iceland’s largest fish drying plants, exporting up to 3,000 MT of dried fish products to Nigeria and producing up to 1,000 MT of cod liver oil a year.
Haustak from the air