Hampiðjan

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

To-date, more than 470,000 metres of Hampiðjan’s DynIce Data cable have been supplied to customers around the world, with the company reporting that the oldest cable known to be still in operation has now been in use for around 12 years.…

17th December 2025

Unique net sounder cable gathers worldwide appeal

17th December 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Hampidjan is reshaping its fast-expanding aquaculture portfolio by folding activities from multiple subsidiaries into a single international company, ELDI, which will officially begin operations on 1 January 2026.

10th December 2025

Hampidjan launches global aquaculture firm ELDI

10th December 2025

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

A variety of technologies, including Hampiðjan’s DynIce Data cable and the Star Oddi Fish Scanner, were brought together earlier this year to provide a new look at assessing stock, tested for the…

19th June 2025

FishScanner tested during capelin survey

19th June 2025

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

A consortium of companies in Norway and Iceland have put into use netting that’s been derived from recycled fishing gear.

1st April 2025

First net from recycled material

1st April 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The FiiZK Group has agreed to sell its lice skirt production business to Icelandic supplier, Hampidjan Group.

7th August 2024

FiiZK to sell lice skirt business

7th August 2024

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

A collaborative project between a group of partners to recycle nylon fishing and aquaculture gear could become an industry turning point, depending on the outcome of full-scale trials now in progress.

3rd April 2024

Circularity breakthrough could be a game-changer

3rd April 2024

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

TorNet, the Spanish arm of Icelandic fishing gear group Hampiðjan, is moving after being in the same building since 2010. The company isn’t moving far, but is going to a more suitable…

10th March 2024

TorNet in new Las Palmas net loft

10th March 2024

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

SafetyNet Technologies has struck an agreement to supply the CatchCam fishing gear-mounted camera to the Australian market, signing up Queensland-based Hampidjan Australia as its distributor.

29th August 2023

Hampidjan Australia latest CatchCam distributor

29th August 2023

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Guðmundur Gunnarsson accepted the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition’s Outstanding Achievement award for his contributions to the development of fishing gear – and a few days later he was decorated by President of Iceland…

27th July 2022

Recognition of a 50-year career

27th July 2022

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

Thousands of visitors – spanning the entire fisheries sector – were warmly welcomed to 13th edition of the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition in Kópavogur

13th July 2022

IceFish 2022 – back to business

13th July 2022