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Skretting introduces new water care solution for fish and shrimp ponds Salmofood introduces a new nutritional supplement to protect gills
Skretting is expanding its AquaCare portfolio with a new water care solution for fish and shrimp pond farming. AquaCare Mineral Balance is a mineral combination offering high bioavailability of macro and trace minerals. This practical, cost-effective solution ensures that pond systems have stable, nutrient-rich water that is also ionically balanced, thereby providing the platform necessary to optimize species’ growth and health. The company launched a new nutritional supplement called Recover, a product that has been added to its line of CareBlocks. Recover prevents and reduces the damage caused by pathogens, parasites, contaminants and physical injuries in the gills.
ASC unveils its feed standard tackling unsustainable practices
The standard requires that feed mills meet strict environmental and social requirements, source ingredients from socially responsible suppliers, and use environmentally responsible raw materials. In doing so, issues in both the supply chain and at raw material level are addressed. Requirements on reporting of performance will also improve the transparency of the industry, reward environmental sustainability, and assist future research into responsible feed.
After nearly two years of construction, the new Feed Technology Center at the University of Illinois is complete and open for business. The 12,000 square-foot facility is optimized with leading-edge equipment, including smart sensors to monitor feed ingredient quality in real-time, digital automation tools to ensure precise diet formulations, a standalone extrusion line to create high-quality pet and livestock feeds, current safety and sanitation features, and more.
BioMar’s new RAS feed targets the bottleneck in marine nurseries
BioMar unveiled a new RAS feed concept, LARVIVA ORBIT, that aims to improve the efficiency of marine nurseries. It will support an industry move of a prolonged time at the hatchery for fry before they are transferred to sea. This will aid in the expected acceleration in the use of RAS technology in marine nurseries, and thereby support the development of hatchery businesses for marine fish species.
New feed facilities and expansions
Vinh Hoan started building a new aquafeed factory in My Hiep, Dong Thap, Vietnam expected to go into operation at the end of 2021. It will have a production capacity of 350,000 tons per year in a total area of more than 6 ha.
Thai Union Feedmill Public Company Ltd. established a new joint venture named AMG-THAIUNION FEEDMILL (PRIVATE) Ltd. in Pakistan to manufacture and distribute fish and shrimp aquafeeds.
Skretting plans to expand its production capacity through the purchase of Ridley’s extrusion facility in Westbury, Tasmania.
Cargill started producing its fry starter feed AquaXcel® at its Serang plant with the aim of enabling aquaculture customers to thrive by achieving more sustainable growth.
Alltech Coppens Aqua Center developed a sustainability scoring system for feeds. This scoring system aims to create awareness in the market and enable fish farmers to improve environmental performance. The resulting score reflects the carbon footprint, as well as the impact on other aspects, such as water use, eutrophication and even marine resource sustainability.
Probiotic additive to improve water quality in shrimp ponds
Evonik, Vland developed AQUAVI® ProPond for improving water quality in aquaculture. It is tailored primarily to the requirements of shrimp farming in ponds. The new probiotic additive is the result of about two years of joint development work and is to be launched in China at the end of the year.
FOSS introduced MycoFoss™, a new mycotoxin analyzer for rapid tests for the presence of mycotoxins in grain and corn. It is operated at the push of a button. Users simply place a ground sample in the instrument and select the appropriate test on a touch screen display. Results for key mycotoxin risks including DON, FUM, AFLA, ZEN, OTA and T-2 are delivered within eight minutes. A multiplex option allows up to six mycotoxins to be tested in one go.
Evonik upgrades feed raw material database with new features
Evonik introduced AMINODat® 6.0, a database for feed raw materials that is up to date at all times and more comprehensive than any other offer available to the feed industry. Based on this database, feeds for livestock can be formulated with even greater precision.
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Helene Ziv-Douki
Cargill named Helene Ziv-Douki president for Cargill’s Aqua Nutrition business. Ziv-Douki, who joined Cargill in 2003, succeeds Pilar Cruz who was recently promoted to Chief Sustainability Officer, a new role for the company.
Brett Glencross
Professor Brett Glencross will take over as IFFO’s technical director. He has been an important contributor to the aquaculture sector and academic research work for the last 20 years.
Donald Lightner
Shrimp industry veteran, Donald V. Lightner, passed away. Lightner put together a team of researchers at the University of Arizona that provided much of the basic knowledge on shrimp disease and health which enabled shrimp aquaculture to grow into a global industry.
Tietjen introduces new grinding solution
The Crusher CR is a versatile machine for coarse crushing of bulk materials. It is suitable, for example, for crushing agglomerates or for pre-crushing coarse pieces of material for further grinding. Pre-grinding with the Crusher CR reliably protects the sieves and thus ensures consistent product quality and less downtime and wear costs.
