Maintaining freshness and quality, stimulating purchases This article was featured in EUROFISH Magazine 6 / 2020. Fish and seafood are perishable foods and their presentation in retail outlets requires special counter concepts that have to meet a variety of requirements. The design of the refrigerated counters, display cases and other sales furniture at fishmongers and in supermarket fish departments contributes strongly to maintaining product quality and also influences customers’ buying behaviour.
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A one-stop shop for fish farmers This article was featured in EUROFISH Magazine 6 / 2020. FIAP, based in Ursensollen, Bavaria, has been supplying aquaculture equipment to the industry as well as to private customers since it was founded in 1978.
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Experience with Czech pond farming enables net manufacture to expand abroad This artcle was featured in EUROFISH Magazine 5/ 2020. A producer of nets has used the pond farming industry in the Czech Republic as a springboard to market his products to freshwater and marine fish farmers in several European countries.
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A new basis for international business This article was featured in EUROFISH Magazine 4 / 2020. “Blockchain” is for many people still little more than a buzzword they may have heard about in connection with the digital currency bitcoins.
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Banding for a variety of purposes This article featured in EUROFISH Magazine 2 2020. At Seafood Processing Europe 2020, Bandall and specialist printer Max.
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Nanotechnology, organic polymers and neurotransmitters Marine biofouling, or biological fouling, the accumulation of plant and animal growth on natural hard structures and man-made constructions from ships to the net enclosures used in aquaculture, is a serious problem worldwide.
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New location offers room to grow It is 35 years since the Hamburg-based salmon slicer manufacturer Salmco Technik was founded and to celebrate this anniversary the company will be moving into new premises which, after final completion next year, will have more than twice the current area for administration and workshop. The 2,500 m² site offers room for further growth.
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Marel, a leading producer of sophisticated equipment for the fish processing industry, held its annual demonstration of machinery for whitefish processing at its dedicated demo centre, Progress Point, in Kastrup close to the Copenhagen airport.
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New skinners are a hit with processing company Germans consume some 13.5 kg of fish and seafood per capita, placing them at the lower end of the scale among European countries.
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New methods reduce costs and increase efficiency From a global perspective the fish industry has lagged far behind most other industries with regard to the introduction of information technologies.
