The Pelagia-branded containerised sludge solution and, inset, Knut Antonsen, head of Blue Ocean Solutions.

Pelagia puts new focus on sludge after buying Blue Ocean Technology

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Fish products and marine ingredients heavyweight Pelagia has formed a new department to offer more comprehensive sludge solutions to the aquaculture industry, it has announced.

Following Pelagia’s purchase of Blue Ocean Technology and subsequent merger of the companies, the technology and development expertise is now gathered in Pelagia's new Blue Ocean Solutions department. Pelagia said this is an important step towards delivering services ranging from collection and processing, to storage, logistics and better resource utilisation of sludge.

“Pelagia Blue Ocean Solutions will be a strong professional environment where we can build on shared expertise and technology. This gives us a better basis for developing more efficient and profitable solutions, customised to our customers’ needs along the entire value chain,” said Egil Magne Haugstad, chief executive of Pelagia.

Pelagia boss Egil Magne Haugstad: "A strong professional environment."

Expertise in one place

Knut Antonsen, head of Blue Ocean Solutions, said: “By gathering resources and expertise in one place, we increase our ability to create new solutions and improve existing offerings. The goal is to expand our involvement so that we increasingly become part of the entire value chain.

“Pelagia's efforts in this area, reinforced through the acquisition of Blue Ocean, have been very well received by the industry. It is clear that the market wants a larger player that can deliver more comprehensive solutions. We notice this both through increased demand and new types of requests, which confirms that we are now considered a preferred partner.”

Pelagia already supplies the aquaculture industry both with technical solutions for handling trimmings, fish guts, and dead fish, and with a contingency solution for fish in the sea. It has also established solutions both at sea and on land to handle the logistics associated with these services.

The company operates 28 facilities in Norway, United Kingdom (Grimsby; Aberdeen; Greenock; Bressay, Shetland), Ireland (Killybegs), Denmark and Ukraine.

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