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PAPANUI can be considered the home of two of New Zealand’s iconic brands –Marmite and Weet-Bix but future production of the two products at the Sanitarium Health Food Company site in Harewood Road remains uncertain. Sanitarium general manager Pierre van Heerden said no longterm decisions would be made regarding the company’s Papanui factory until they worked through short-term issues. “There are a lot of factors involved and it will be quite a while.” The Sanitarium factory was damaged in the earthquakes and Mr van Heerden said they were “finding more as we go along.” The company was working closely with insurers and engineers and Mr van Heerden said the cost of the damage was still not known. The Papanui factory was the only one producing Marmite in the country, although the company has a bigger plant in Auckland. Demolition of the processing tower at the Papanui site was completed last week and a decision on whether the factory’s highly specialised Marmite production machinery would remain at the site was expected soon. Mr van Heerden said the company’s main emphasis was getting Marmite production up and running. A total of 647,000 kilograms are produced each year. “On the timelines we have been given by engineers we could be back up in production in mid-July,” he said. “Economically it has had a big impact. We don’t have anything to sell.” South Island production of Weet-Bix ceased at the Papanui site in November with all 65 workers employed there suspended on full pay. In early February, 42 workers were made redundant. Weet-Bix is now being manufactured at the Auckland factory. Initially the biscuits were a little lighter than those produced in Christchurch but Mr van Heerden said this had been rectified. “We’re now toasting them a bit more,” he said. Sanitarium started production of Weet-Bix at Papanui in 1930. Since the 1970s the Papanui factory has produced all the Marmite sold in the South Pacific. Sanitarium NZ is owned by the Seventh Day Adventist Church of NZ.
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