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The company started the construction of a greenfield compound feed factory in Abidjan, in the new industrial zone of PK in Attingue’, Ivory Coast, with an initial capacity of 100,000 tons per year. The factory will produce high-quality complete feed for fish, poultry and cattle, which will expand the current portfolio of Koudijs concentrates and specialty feeds. Production is planned to commence during the second half of 2022. BioMar unveiled a comprehensive investment plan for its business unit in Ecuador. It includes new land, a transformation of the current factory layout, an upgrade of existing pelletizing equipment, and four new lines for extruded feed. The two-phased installation will bring a total of four new lines with a combined capacity of 200,000 tons at BioMar’s facilities in Guayaquil.

The investments are part of the preparation for the introduction of new advanced shrimp feed concepts, which are planned for launch in the market from 2022.

The state-of-the-art center, located at Nofima’s facilities in Bergen, aims to work towards a more environmentally friendly fish feed. Its infrastructure and expertise offers are within bioprocessing, process technology, extrusion and feed technology, and analytical platforms. The center’s new equipment allows studying the impact the processing of new raw materials has on the ingredients and the final product.

Aller Aqua achieved the verification of CO2-labelling of fish feed at its European factories, being the world’s first fish feed company verified. “It is a huge milestone for us to be the first company to be able to label our entire product portfolio by the recognized PEFCR (Product Environment Footprint Category Rules) principles Feed for foodproducing animals. This means that we can offer customers a full carbon footprint declaration on each type of feed,” the company said.

The companies partnered to collaborate on the development of the world’s first next-generation Functional Performance Shrimp Feed for UniAqua’s proprietary Hybrid Biological Recirculating System™. In initial trials, Grobest functional performance feeds have outperformed competitive products by yielding healthier, tastier shrimp and significantly better water quality.

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Nutreco formed two joint ventures with the Kenyabased, largest feed miller in East Africa, Unga Group Plc, to meet the growing demand for high-quality protein within the East African region. The yet-tobe-named joint ventures will focus on fish feed development in East Africa and complete animal feed development in Uganda. The Kenyan entity will produce fish feeds intended for East African markets at Unga’s existing extruded fish feed plant in Nairobi and market them under the Skretting & Fugo brands.

INVE Aquaculture unveiled breakthrough rotifer substitution feed line and protocol that reduces live rotifer diets by at least 50% in marine fish hatcheries.

Skretting introduced a new hatchery diet, GEMMA Neo, inspired by nature that reduces the dependence on traditional feed ingredients, while also providing ideal nutrient composition, unprecedented production system performance and weaning flexibility.

BioMar launched a new feed for meagre (Argyrosomus regius). EFICO 2152 is a specialized solution that allows meagre farmers to lower production costs, increase efficiency, and thereby, control the economic performance of their farm under challenging market conditions.

Aquasoja developed a nutritional solution for red porgy, PAGRUS, designed to meet the nutritional requirements of red porgy, and that contains natural and synthetic pigments to obtain the desired skin color.

Agrimaster, part of Medivet Group, recently opened Cambodia’s first aquafeed mill. The facility started supplying an additional 600 tons per month of highquality fish feed to the local growing aquaculture sector. The state-of-the-art aquafeed mill introduced Famsun’s single-screw extrusion system to help Agrimaster become competitive in aquafeed production.

Famsun also constructed Haida Group’s first shrimp feed line in the Americas. The new facility, located in Guayas Duran, Ecuador, has five shrimp feed production lines with a total hourly output of 13 tons and a total annual output of 120,000 tons of shrimp feed.

A newly awarded $2.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation has established the Center for Environmental Sustainability through Insect Farming. The Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has been assigned as the lead site for the center, which will be a collaborative effort with Mississippi State University (MSU) and Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI). Joining the universities will be 34 U.S. and global industrial partners including Mars Inc., Tyson Foods and insect farming pioneers such as Aspire Food Groups, Protix and Beta Hatch Inc. Researchers will examine optimization in the production and development of food as well as feed products for poultry, swine, aquaculture and pets.

Grobest appointed Hua Du as the company’s new CEO following a decision by current CEO, Samson Li to step back from his role. Du joins Grobest after 11 years at Solvay, where he held the position of president of Global Business Units and was a member of Executive Committee, and 13 years at the Rohm and Haas Company.

BÜCHI Labortechnik AG introduced NIR-Online X-Sential™, a new process sensor that takes advantage of more than 15 years of in-the-field experience with process NIR technology and applications. The X-Sential™ was developed and designed as a cost-effective, fit-for-purpose process sensor.

The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute and Cargill announced a multi-year agreement to develop, evaluate and enhance feeds for the growing land-based aquaculture industry. This partnership builds on recent efforts between the two groups that validated the effectiveness of Cargill’s new diet for Atlantic salmon grown in land-based RAS.