
NURI Fishery Union Corporation with Perseverrance for Good Sea Food
NURI Fishery Union Corporation located at Wando-eup, Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea is a company for the production, processing, distribution and export of live abalone. As the representative, Song-Geum Kim, had run an abalone farm with her husband, Jin Wook Kwon, since 2000, she established the distribution company
The company can stably supply and demand a quantity all the year, set a reasonable price by reducing distribution steps and carry out strict and rigid quality control, which are the company’s strong points. As of 2020, the company achieved 11 billion won in annual sales and currently exports its main product, frozen abalone, to Japan, the United States, etc. It won the export tower with 1 million dollars in 2017, with 3 million dollars in 2018, the service tower for export expansion of fishery products in 2019 and the grand prize for export in Jeollanam-do by achieving 5.3 million dollars in exports in 2021.

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△ Outside View of NURI Fishery Union Corporation
Best-quality Boil-cooked Frozen Abalone with Taste of Clean Sea
As boil-cooked frozen abalone (5) with K․FISH certification is a product that live abalone is cleaned, boiled and quickly frozen, it is fresh like live abalone even after being thawed and can be easily cooked. She said that since it is easy to store and is able to be supplied at a comparatively low price, it is in highest demand in foreign markets among abalone processed products. In particular, among a variety of products of NURI Fishery Union Corporation, boil-cooked frozen abalone is frozen products which were exported first to North American regions.
It procures the original abalone from its directly-managed farms. The farms are located in the seas of Hoeng-gan-do (Hoeng-gan-ri, Soan-myeon, Wando-gun) belonging to Dadohaehaesang National Park, 9km southwest of Wando, and the marine national park is maintained and managed by the nation, so it can be called a nattural environment safe from seawater pollution.
In Wando, a sea forest (sea algae) is created in the coastal area as well as mud flat per coastline, so the sea performs self-purification through carbon dioxide absorption and oxygen discharge and oxygen and negative ions are generated 50 times that in big cities, which protects the reputation of the clean sea. As it is called the paradise of sea algae, sea mustard and kelp, food for abalone, are also of the best quality and nutritious. It is natural that Wando abalone grown eating it also has an outstanding nutritional value.
“As boil-cooked frozen abalone is processed with 100% live abalone, you can enjoy the taste and nutrition of the clean Wando sea. You can utilize it in various ways such as grilled abalone with butter, pasta, salad, etc. after thrawing it. The company is equipped with automation equipment available for mass production based on standards for HACCP certification and can attach a label sticker in his/her own language at the request of a buyer in export.”
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△ NURI Fishery Union Corporation’s Boil-cooked Frozen Abalone with K·FISH Certification (Top)
Panorama of Directly-managed Farm where Abalone is produced and Live Abalone (Bottom)
Efforts for Safe Sea Food that Consumers can eat with trust
Considering the characteristics of abalone, for preventing a decline in its product value, it is important to keep it healthy and alive. That is why the company is equipped with a variety of equipment which can improve the freshness of abalone. 23 water tanks which can hold up to 100t of quantities are equipped with an individual cooler, respectively, and supply clean water through high-performance oxygen dissolvers and seawater filters using gravel and sand.
The processing plants equipped with state-of-the-art equipment such as quick freezing facilities, automatic conveyor systems, etc. also acquired the HACCP certification and the FSSC 22000 certification, creating the sanitary processing environment suitable for global standards as well as domestic standards. In addition, the company strictly runs production processes in a hygienic and systematic manner by installing and operating self-quarantine stations for hygiene and deploying professionals with know-how and knowledge related to the food processing field.
“Our frozen abalone is produced through a total of 4 cleansing processes and is finally prevented from being contaminated with metal foreign substances in a process of detection of metal foreign substances. As contamination with foreign substances is the biggest factor to undermine reliability for corresponding products from consumers, so we care most about it and place the highest importance on equipment and process management for preventing contamination with foreign substances.”
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△ Cutting-edge Equipment and Sanitary Processing Environment of NURI Fishery Union Corporation
Certified Export Company trying to globalize Wando Abalone
Generally, for exporting live abalone, companies have no choice but to depend on flights with high fares. Therefore, Korean Abalone Trade Association purchased containers for living things with government funds for supporting the abalone export companies and NURI Fishery Union Corporation has exported live abalone by positively utilizing them as a member of the association. Those containers are becoming a foundation for the mass export of live abalone into more various regions by overcoming a distance limit for expoting living things.
In addition, as the company has registered FDA-FCE, SID in the United States as well as export processing plants in China, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia and pursued the sustainable and responsible fishery by obtaining the ASC-COC certification which can distribute and sell ASC-certified fishery products which have been recently in a higher demand in global distributors, hotels and restaurants, it has spared no efforts to globalize Wando abalone by extending export markets.
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△ Containers only for Live Abalone used in Export
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△ Main Certifications of NURI Fishery Union Corporation
Plan to Advance into the Larger Export Market with K·FISH Certification
As of 2021, the company recorded exports (3t, about 120,000 dollars) in Japan and (2t, about 180,000 dollars) in the United States and expects to increase quantities by about 30% in the next year, respectively. While focusing on production and supply for export to the Japanese and American market, it is making efforts to find buyers to enter the Vietnamese market in the future. Its goal is to introduce Wando abalone to more countries and regions with the sanitary and systematic production system and the low supply price through mass production. The representative showed her ambition, saying that with this K․FISH certification, the company will advance into larger overseas markets by enhancing the reliability of foreign consumers and securing opportunities to enter overseas markets such as an overseas promotion support project, etc.
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△ Various Processed Products of NURI Fishery Union Corporation
“The core value and missio of NURI Fishery Union Corporation is to read food trends and make safe and healthy sea food satisfying consumers’ demands. We will provide good sea food that consumers can eat without any doubt based on a philosophy of high-quality guaranteeing freshness.”
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△ CI of NURI Fishery Union Corporation
▷ Address : NURI Fishery Union Corporation, 38, Nonggongdanji 4-gil, Wando-eup, Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea
▷ Inquiry : Tel.061-553-8147 Fax.061-553-8149
▷ Homepage : www.nuricorp.com
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