Product Certification

A GROWING BUSINESS

Roland Lambert SARL is a family business with the third generation now at the helm. The company sells around 1000 tonnes of oysters every year via a network of distributors in France and overseas.

The business owns 50ha of maturation ponds (former shallow salt marshes, separated from each other by embankments and that have access to the sea via little canals), the majority close to the hub of the operation.

It�s in these basins that the �Ostrearia� or blue navicula, (a microscopic organism) on contact with the oyster, gives it the characteristic green colour. The greening of the oysters takes place spasmodically between September and April; regular checks of the water quality are performed.

The company owns a variety of heavy equipment such as fork-lift trucks to deal with items for despatch, Tele-trucks for removing boxes of oysters from cleaning ponds or unloading, machine to clean oysters, a hopper (a washing machine linked to a sorting line) a calibrating machine that sorts oysters by weight, strapping machines for dispatching the finished product, flatbed trucks, an articulated lorry, barges and appropriate computer software.