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LAKSESYSTEMER AND VP WITH ICELANDIC PARTNERSHIP

LAKSESYSTEMER AND VP WITH ICELANDIC PARTNERSHIP2

Laksesystemer and VP with Icelandic partnership.  The Norwegian company Laksesystemer AS and the Icelandic company VP Vélaverkstæði ehf  (VP) have established a partnership in a joint effort to deliver solutions for land based Aquaculture in Iceland.

Norwegian stagnation fuelling Icelandic growth

The new aquaculture tax has obviously put many projects on hold in Norway, says General Manager of Laksesystemer, Ole Gabriel Kverneland. We immediately foresaw that the stagnation in Norway would represent an opportunity for other countries producing salmon. At the moment, there is very high activity in Iceland. We have been present with our technology for a while, and we are now moving forward with a strategic partnership with the company VP that will help us with installations and “feet on the ground” in this important market for land based aquaculture technology. We have also signed contracts for delivery of feed systems and for the ReelAppetite artificial intelligence feeding. Big projects on land is a perfect match for our newly developed technology focusing on gentle and precise feeding. We are also experiencing a lot of interest in our new lights developed especially for land based aquaculture, says Kverneland.

LAKSESYSTEMER AND VP WITH ICELANDIC PARTNERSHIP

Preparing a 40 foot container of feeding system for shipment to undisclosed client in Iceland.

Combining expertise and experience in land based aquaculture:

We have been searching for the right partner for a while, and we are really looking forward to the cooperation with VP, says Kverneland. The CEO of VP, Jón Reynir Andrésson has an impressive career, working for more than 35 years with land based aquaculture, including 25 years as CTO for Benchmark Genetics Iceland (former Stofnfiskur hf.). He has now been in Norway to learn more about our company and our technology, and we can easily see that Jón knows what this is about. Our systems are delivered with state-of-the-art remote support solutions and this, combined with the massive experience of Jón and his crew, means we are confident that our Icelandic customers will be in safe hands. We are primed and ready to grow together with the market in Iceland, Kverneland concludes.

We believe Lakseystemer has developed technology that can solve many of the challenges in land based aquaculture, says Jón Reynir Andrésson. Having seen the technology in operation in huge Norwegian facilities, I am impressed by the scale and how advanced the technology has become. There are not many companies specialising in land based aquaculture the way that Laksesystemer does, so their experience and technology is sure to be valuable for our market in Iceland. In particular, the focus on gentle feed handling and use of AI to prevent feed spill is something that can greatly contribute both to financial and environmental sustainability of the industry. We are happy to see that the cooperation will be fruitful from day one and we are ready to install their feed system to one of the most experienced land based operations in the world, says Andrésson.

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