Land: Iceland

Upswing in fishfarming.

Marel is pleased to announce that its long-term partner, Icelandic Group, has purchased the new FleXicut water-jet cutting robot for high precision bone detection and removal.

With more than 20 years of experience and 2000 portion cutters installed worldwide, Marel has developed the I-Cut 130 Portioncutter to enable salmon food processing companies to keep pace with the constantly escalating demands from customers such as supermarkets and restaurant chains.

HB Grandi and the Turkish shipyard Celiktrans Denis Insaat Ltd. have reached an agreement for Celiktrans to fully design and build a model of a fresh fish trawler for tank testing.

Ingunn AK is now steaming to Vopnafjördur with 900 tonnes of capelin taken in two shots off the Ísafjördur Deeps on board.

What do you do when you have developed best-selling, revolutionary portioning equipment? You make it even better! Since its conception in 1999, RevoPortioner has amassed a vast amount of knowledge and research, taking it from an innovative approach in portioning technology to a range of machines that provide the answer to many satisfied further processors across the globe.

Polar Fishing Gear of Iceland and SINERGIA SRL of Mar del Plata, Argentina will now offer the complete line of Notus Electronics Ltd.’s (Notus) net monitoring products through its extensive global dealer network. Both partnerships for Notus are considered significant moves.

The year 2013 has been quite an eventful year for the fisheries sector and the ocean cluster in Iceland and a number of trends have started to emerge. For the 2014 predicted the following 10 trends in the Iceland ocean cluster:

Marel, the leading global provider of advanced food processing equipment, has sold over one thousand Innova systems.

Today, 10 Icelandic ocean technology firms introduce Green Marine Technology – a joint marketing initiative where the companies emphasize eco-friendly solutions for fisheries and fish processing.