Utilising 100% of fish does not only have ecological advantages but also economic – as a leading provider of fish processing solutions, Baader believes it to be the company’s duty to support the industry to make more with less.
For this reason, Baader officially joined the Iceland Ocean Cluster (IOC) on 28th April 2022. The aim is to further strengthen zero waste in the global fish processing industry. Baader managing director Robert Focke and Dr Thór Sigfússon, founder and owner of the Iceland Ocean Cluster, signed the membership on the Baader stand at Seafood Processing Global (SPG) in Barcelona.
‘BAADER is one of the biggest and oldest players in the fish processing industry and as such we have a responsibility to treat livestock with care as well as provide the necessary solutions to our customers to make the most of it – ideally using all of it,’ said the company’s executive chairwoman Petra Baader.
‘Being a member of the Iceland Ocean Cluster, we intend to enhance our cross-industry collaborations with an integrative exchange of expertise as well as close networking with relevant institutes, institutions, and organisations,’ Robert Focke added.
New processing technologies, including green technology solutions, are crucial for reducing food waste and carbon footprint. Moreover, they can improve production quality, hygiene, energy, and water efficiency and thus bring added value to the customer even beyond sustainability. Co-products can range from relatively low value, such as those used primarily as feed for livestock, to extremely high-value products found in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and functional foods.
‘In the seafood world, millions of tonnes of fish co-products are discarded in landfills, which is both costly and a source of greenhouse gas emissions,’ Thór Sigfússon said.
‘The Iceland Ocean Cluster and Baader have agreed to collaborate on enhancing the utilisation of seafood co-products. We aim to collaborate on assisting seafood companies that have the ambition to create value from side streams.’
Baader took the opportunity at SPG in Barcelona to showcase its commitment to the IOC zero-waste mission with dedicated content in its brand rooms developed in co-operation with Thór Sigfússon.
The company exhibited the industry’s first advanced line solution for co-product handling and value-add consisting of a Skaginn 3X mince line combined with the Baader Refiner and further third-party processing equipment – and promises that there’s more to come, having dedicated itself to zero waste in the fish processing industry and aims do so as an active participant in the network.
