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THE nominees for the Nor-Fishing Foundation Innovation Prize 2007 have been announced.
The Innovation Prize will be awarded for the 5th time at Aqua Nor in Trondheim this week.
The nominees are:
DSM Dyneema, the Netherlands. The company has developed one of the strongest fibres in the world used in nets in fish farms. The nets are environmentally friendly, weigh only one third of conventional nets and prevent growth of seaweed, which gives an improved flow.
QVision AS, Oslo. The company has developed the instrument “QMonitor”, which measures and grades fillets with the correct pigmentation and fat content for the correct customer. SINTEF Fishery and Aquaculture and Norwegian Food Research Institute have participated in the process of completing the product “QMonitor”.
Aqua Gen AS, Trondheim. This is a new machine for automatic grading of salmon and trout eggs, which is done manually today. The machine grades, measures egg size and counts eggs. The capacity is 100,000 eggs per hour. The product was developed in co-operation with SINTEF Fishery and Aquaculture.
This year’s candidates represent both large and small companies, which have developed products of great importance to the aquaculture industry and to production and profitability.
The Nor-Fishing Foundation Innovation Prize aims to encourage increased focus on innovation, efficiency improvement, quality improvement, enhanced profitability and protection of environment and resources in the fishery and aquaculture industries. Eight international and Norwegian companies and research institutions competed for the prize this year.
The Prize is NOK 100,000 and a print by the artist Karl Erik Harr.
The jury this year was composed of: Mr Viggo Andreassen of Innovation Norway, Mr Kjell Maroni of Norwegian Seafood Federation (FHL) Aquaculture and Ms Berit A. Hanssen of FHL Industry and Exports
The winner of the Innovation Prize will be announced at the Nor-Fishing Foundation reception tomorrow at 6pm at the Royal Garden Hotel.
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