Our contribution to the industry

Fish handling with care is our purpose and we enable our customers to process the fish as sustainably as possible by means of the equipment we supply. Our key objective and passion is to continuously improve the standard of fish handling and enable our customers to process fish more efficiently, safely and with higher quality. Fish welfare, food safety and safe working conditions for operators are always of primary importance

In the table to the right, we describe a selection of our accomplishments in 2022 and what we are aiming for in the short and long term regarding our contribution to sustainable fisheries.

Focus area Accomplishments in 2022 Aiming for in 2023 Long term goals

Animal welfare ࣽ Collaboration with Food Safety Authorities to ensure products in our portfolio that handle live animals adequately safeguard animal welfare.

ࣽ Investigated, documented and determined equipment parameters to ensure gentle handling.

ࣽ Tested and documented how connecting our Optiflush solution to the Optilice Flush System can remove sea lice more efficiently, while better safeguarding fish welfare, because the water temperature needed is reduced by 2–4 degrees Celsius. This also offers the benefits of reduced energy consumption. The system has been designed specifically to ensure the gentle handling of fish and lice removal without the use of chemicals.

ࣽ Increase availability of stunners to smaller customers (small-scale aquaculture production) in emerging markets

ࣽ Make the Optiflush available to all actors in the market.

Supply fish farms worldwide with delousing solutions that safeguard fish welfare and avoid the use of harmful chemicals or other threats to marine life.

Food quality and food safety

ࣽ Optimized performance to achieve higher quality fish bleeding. Introduced a new system for flow control and a solution that is more cleanable and gentler compared to the previous solution.

ࣽ Testing and approving optimized bleeding systems that improve the quality of the seafood products, since bleeding will be performed in a more controlled timespan based on the FIFO principle, using equipment that is more cleanable and gentler than previous versions.

ࣽ Level 1 EHEDG training for our engineers to increase knowledge of hygienic design.

Improve cleanability of our standard tanks and bulk seafood handling systems. Combined with more gentle treatment, this will lead to fewer losses and higher quality food products, increased food safety and reduced use of water, chemicals and time needed for cleaning.

Energy consumption in the value chain

ࣽ Released new CO2-freezing plates onto the market, showing satisfactory results with short freezing times.

ࣽ Developed a new onboard freezer design.

ࣽ Perform testing and tracking of energy consumption and freezing time, with the aim of further optimizing the design to achieve a shorter freezing time and reduced energy consumption in the freezing process.

Optimize energy consumption and freezing time for various species in our plate freezer solutions.

Working conditions (safety, heavy lifting, etc)

Process control and data harvesting

ࣽ Commander Web platform rolled out to multiple new customers, enabling data capture from operations.

ࣽ Customers in general are more interested in data capture from operations. Commander OnSite delivered to multiple customers, enabling better overall control and diagnostics.

ࣽ Applied for participation in the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries’ CatchID project.

ࣽ Launch new designs for our main conveyor products where we improve personnel safety without compromising on food safety.

ࣽ Release an automated packing solution for the onboard market.

ࣽ Standardize Commander Web as the platform for production data capture in all of our segments.

ࣽ Help customer to integrate factory-related fuel and emission data.

ࣽ Participation in the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries’ CatchID project.

Become a solution provider for weighing, grading and packing whole fish and fillets without the need of heavy manual labour.

Gather operational data that helps document customers’ operations, from a production, environmental and efficiency perspective.

Greater focus on increasing factories’ energy efficiency, based on harvested data.