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The company was originally created in 1995 when a group of licensed cockle
gatherers recognised the advantages of working as one. Consequently, Penclawdd
Shellfish Processing was formed. The families involved, had between them an
unrivalled depth of knowledge concerning shellfish in the locality where,
like them their grandparents had coaxed a living.
The brave challenge of unity required the participants to invest in a totally
new turnkey facility and by doing so gave them a state of the art facility
on the fringe of Penclawdd village which as a community had itself been famous
for its cockle industry for centuries.
Such was its early success, the company was awarded the Welsh Exporter of
the Year Award in 1998. Besides having a state of the art cockle cooking facility
which itself is capable of cooking many tons of these tasty little molluscs
daily, the plant also has the facility to produce large quantities of that
peculiarly Welsh delicacy laverbread, which is produced from locally gathered
seaweed.
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