NEWS 8 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE August 2022 Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) and Maruha Nichiro Corporation (Maruha Nichiro) announced that they would establish a new joint venture company, ATLAND Corporation (ATLAND), which will specialize in the land-based production of salmon. ATLAND will be established in Nyuzen town of Toyama prefecture in around October 2022. “The investment ratio of ATLAND will be MC 51% and Maruha Nichiro 49%. Following the establishment of the company, a land-based aquaculture facility with a capacity of 2,500 tons (live weight equivalent) will be constructed in Nyuzen town, with the aims of starting operations in 2025 and completing the first delivery in 2027,” the companies said in a statement. MC and Maruha Nichiro have been discussing the joint promotion of this project since March 2021. The project is expected to help develop a sustainable and stable land-based production system, efficient digital-tech-based operations, local production for local consumption, and progress in decarbonization. Both companies are dedicated to leveraging their strengths and businesses to simultaneously generate economic, environmental and societal value. The aim of the joint project is to create a local-production-for-local-consumption business model in Japan’s salmon industry. This business model is expected to produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions compared to the practice of importing fresh salmon to Japan by air from salmon-farming countries. In addition, land-based aquaculture that uses Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) is highly compatible with digital technologies. These systems use advanced water-treatment technologies to control and manage the farming environment. By employing these methods, the companies aim to take advantage of AI and IoT to stabilize production, and otherwise optimize own salmon farming operations. Mitsubishi, Maruha Nichiro to establish new joint venture for land-based salmon Spain-based Tebrio, one of the leading companies in the production and processing of Tenebrio molitor insects, together with other major players in the swine industry, announced that it launched an innovative project to improve sector efficiency and sustainability. Porcisost research program aims to offer farmers a natural alternative to zinc oxide in order to control piglet mortality in the first weeks of life. To this end, it proposes diets including protein from Tenebrio molitor insects Porcisost: a sustainable alternative to control piglet mortality without zinc oxide Spanish biotechnology company Tebrio has launched an innovative project, together with Grupo Jorge, Nutega and Vallehermoso. Porcisost research program aims to offer farmers a natural alternative to zinc oxide in order to control piglet mortality in the first weeks of life.
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