Posts Tagged ‘Akva Group’
BREAKING: AKVA Group Sign huge Norwegian contract
The AKVA group ASA has announced that it has just entered into a sales and supply contract with a Norwegian customer for delivery of its patented tube net solutions to 7 sites in Norway. The total contract value is approx. 100 MNOK (£7.8 million). More news as we have it on this developing story…..
Read MoreAKVA reports ‘significant year’ in 2019
THE AKVA group, one of the main technology and service providers to the aquaculture sector, achieved an order intake of four billion kroner – or £311 million – last year, it has revealed in its annual report. CEO Knut Nesse described 2019 as a year of ‘significant milestones’ with revenues of more than NOK 3…
Read MoreAKVA chair given special share option
FOLLOWING the announcement this morning that Knut Nesse will be the new chairman of AKVA, the company said Nesse’s own firm, Nesse & Co, had today acquired 50,000 shares from AKVA group (treasury shares) at a price of NOK 75.60 per share. Knut Nesse and Nesse & CO owned nil shares in AKVA group prior…
Read MoreFormer Nutreco boss Nesse new AKVA chair
FORMER Nutreco CEO Knut Nesse has been appointed as the new chairman of AKVA\’s board, taking over from today. He replaces Hans Kristian Mong who has stepped down from the role after leading the group’s board for more than six years, the company said. Mong will continue as a board member of the group. Nesse…
Read MoreAKVA barges for Grieg growth in Canada
AKVA group is to supply Canadian salmon farmer Grieg NL with at least eight feed barges, as well as feed systems. Grieg recently won clearance to proceed with its planned $250 million project in the Placentia Bay area of Newfoundland, following an environmental review by the Supreme Court. The development is expected to create 250…
Read MoreFeeding ‘revolution’ with flexible concept
A NEW feeding system that enables feed from any silo to be sent to any cage without manual handling has been launched by AKVA. Called Flexible Feeding, the system will create higher feeding capacity as well as save time, said the company. Flexible Feeding makes it easier to use different feed types and sizes, and…
Read MoreAkva announces Egersund acquisition
AKVA Group is to buy Egersund Net for a reported 750 million NOK (£68.50 million), the company announced yesterday, strengthening both companies’ offerings to the aquaculture industry. The deal seals a close collaboration between the two firms, which recently agreed that Egersund would be represented by Akva in all export markets outside Norway. ‘Egersund Net…
Read MoreSubsea salmon farm gets go ahead
A JOINT venture between Norway\’s Akva Group, Sinkaberg-Hansen and Egersund Net has been given approval for one development licence by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries. The consortium had applied for six licences for its industrial scale submersible salmon farm project, Atlantis Subsea Farming (ASF), in January 2016. In March 2017, the Directorate gave approval for ASF…
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