Strategic collaboration to supporting growing popularity of RAS

Recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) technology supplier Clewer Aquaculture Oy is entering into a global strategic collaboration agreement with Iris Energy LLC's Aquatech Division as of this month. The aim of the collaboration is to focus on the growing business of building land-based fish farms globally using RAS technology, to ensure sustainable sourcing of fish.

Iris Energy's Aquatech Division is involved with setting up production facilities of fresh and saltwater fish species, utilising recirculation systems while its mother company, Iris Energy LLC, is a design and product development company focused on utilising advanced electronics, artificial intelligence, robotics and machine vision.

Riitta Myyra, Managing Director of Clewer Aquaculture says of the collaboration, "We will be happy and honoured to combine our biological water treatment systems and over 40 years of experience in aquaculture to modern high-tech solutions developed by Iris Energy. This will tick all the boxes expected by societies in future around the world – environmentally friendly and sustainable food production with small to negligible carbon footprints, without hormones, and maximum water reuse."

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Being that global demand for animal protein continues to grow, the issue of sustainably producing fish is one that needs to be addressed and is one that is currently being tackled by Iris Aquatech Division as it is in talks with interested parties about setting up RAS facilities in Europe, Africa and Asia. Of the projects, Iris Energy explains that "some will be self-financed and others will have local financial partners participating."

Deepak Chandran, President of Iris, says, "This collaboration will facilitate Iris Energy integrating its high technology capabilities in speciality sensors, agtech, traceability, and IoT 5.0 solutions with the RAS technologies of Clewer Aquaculture, to create state of the art and future proof fish farms, to produce high quality best in class fish protein for consumers."

For more information on Clewer Aquaculture OY visit their website, HERE.

For more information on Iris Energy LLC visit their website, HERE.