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Full hygiene control for food production
The company's system of long-lasting, anti-microbial control for food production facilities is in widespread use in Iceland and its overseas market these innovative automatic clouding systems continues to grow steadily."All of the leading fish processors here in Iceland are using our systems, and we have also installed D-Tech systems ...
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Adapting to the needs of a changing industry
A lot has changed over the years – much of this stemming from the quota system that was implemented the year before the first IceFish. Consequently, the event has responded by shifting from the original focus firmly on the catching sector to today encompass processing, seafood, aquaculture and ...
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Naust Marine: fly-shooting breakthrough
"We have been at every one since the company was established, and that's something we intend to continue," said Naust Marine's sales manager Helgi Kristjánsson."We see IceFish as among the most important industry events because of its international nature, and most of our activity is overseas. So it's vital ...
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Quality and flexibility
The yard has more than ninety years of experience behind it and has capacity to build in steel and GRP. Gondán's reputation is for delivering sophisticated vessels and for having the flexibility to introduce improvements during the construction process to meet the customer's requirements, while also meeting the ...
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Ice-free approach locks in flavour
Ice is the accepted method of keeping fish fresh while a fishing vessel is at sea and the icemaker is as vital a piece of equipment as the engine or the winch. All the same, ice is bulky and cumbersome. A box of groundfish is inevitably going to be ...
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Icefish continues to grow - 60% booked
Mercator Media's events Director Marianne Rasmussen-Coulling is the driving force behind IceFish, and she recalled that the first exhibition could fit into an area of 5000m2 space at which the majority of exhibitors were local companies."In contrast, the 2017/2020 events occupy 13,000m2 of exhibition space and exhibitors come from ...
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10,000 tonnes a year through Grimsby
"This is our fifth time as Grimsby Fish Market. Before that we attended with the local council and in a partnership with Hull. So we're longstanding participants," said Grimsby Fish Market's chief executive Martyn Boyers."We've been at IceFish every time since the 90s – in different guises – and ...
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Zamakona returns for 2020 IceFish
Astilleros Zamakona has a strong reputation for the quality of the work it does for the fishing fleet operating off Western Africa, as the company's yard is Gran Canaria is key to carrying out repairs and maintenance for fishing vessels working in this part of the world.The Bilbao yard ...
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Aquaculture exports set to hit ISK25 billion
The figure represents a straightforward 92% growth over the 2018 figures for the same period – or 72% when adjusted for exchange rate fluctuations. According to fishing industry body Samtök Fyrirtækja í Sjávarútvegi (SFS), the increase is down to increased production, especially farmed salmon and this growth is ...
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Celiktrans returns to IceFish in 2020
Celiktrans has a track record of building for Iceland, having delivered three fresher trawlers operated from Reykjavík by Brim, as well as pelagic vessels.Víkingur and Venus were built for Brim, while Ísfélag's Sigurður and Síldarvinnslan's Börkur were acquired from their original Norwegian owners."There are now four purse seiner-pelagic trawlers ...
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Faroese gear for fishing and aquaculture
"An exhibition has to be worthwhile, and we see IceFish as the place to meet our Icelandic customers," said Vónin's Bogi Nón."We also always see some of our customers from other countries there, especially visitors from Canada and Greenland who come to IceFish."He commented that the Icelandic market is ...
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Tailor-made from Lavango
"The activities behind what we're doing haven't changed. And we'll be at IceFish for the third time because we see this as the most important exhibition for the Icelandic market," said the company's CEO Kristján Karl Aðalsteinsson."We specialise in tailored systems for fish processing, supplying fishing vessels, processors and ...
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Investment and awards at Brim
The Environmental Award was presented by President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson to Brim CEO Guðmundur Kristjánsson."Brim has set targets and developed reliable methods to measure results, reduce waste and increase value of all processes. The company has reduced significantly the omission of CO2 and invested in new technology ...
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EKKÓ doors make a splash
EKKÓ doors have already been supplied to trawlers in Iceland, Sweden and the UK, and he commented that while the company's doors catch as well or better than comparable designs on the market, they have resulted in some serious fuel savings."The results have been almost unbelievable," he said. "It's ...
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Marel predicts a more automated future
Speaking at the event, Marel Fish EVP Sigurður Ólason examined the growth in robotics and digitisation across the industry and how this is leads to new ways to make fuller use of raw materials.It's no coincidence that Marel has doubled its investment in software RandD in the past year ...
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IceFish 2020: One year to go
Since its inception in 1984, the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition has become one of the world's leading fishing events. Held only once every three years the exhibition will return in September 2020 to Kópavogur, IcelandThe 13th Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition is the longest running international fishing exhibition in Iceland. 'IceFish', ...
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Hampiðjan's fibre-optic breakthrough
The company has been quietly developing its DynIce Optical Data cable for some years, focusing on overcoming the challenges of protecting the vulnerable fibre itself from elongation and bending forces in a protective jacket around three fibres within the cable itself."We look forward to showing the DynIce Optical Data ...
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Herring season ahead
Landing 600 tonnes of mackerel to Brim's factory in Vopnafjörður, skipper Theódór Thórðarson of pelagic vessel Venus said that the mackerel are moving fast, but with no clear pattern to their movements."They don't seem to have decided where they want to go. We've seen them shifting quickly eastwards for ...
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Demand for new fishing capacity
The company has been a regular participant over the years, going back to 1999 when BP Shipping was instrumental in building research vessel Árni Friðriksson, which was delivered by Asmar in Chile to Iceland's Marine Research Institute.Since then BP Shipping has been part of the development of much of ...
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Egersund Ísland - back to IceFish in 2020
Closely linked with the Norwegian Egersund Group and based at Eskifjörður on the east coast of Iceland, Egersund Ísland's main activity has been in purse seine and pelagic trawl gear – but they have been increasingly expanding into the serving the needs of the growing aquaculture sector in Iceland.A ...
