NEWS 6 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE January 2025 When Nofima researches sustainable feed for salmon, the process involves everything from when a new ingredient is delivered to the feed technology centre, to when the salmon has eaten the feed and grown to slaughter size. Nofima explains this is because an ingredient has at least two aspects: a technical and a nutritional one. "If you can't get the ingredient into the feed, you can't get it into the fish," explains Senior Researcher Tor Andreas Samuelsen, providing a straightforward summary of a complex process. Replacing fish oil with a more sustainable, oil-rich ingredient is quite complex. Defining what constitutes a sustainable ingredient is a separate issue, but it is reasonable to assume that microalgae are among them, as they are at the bottom of the food chain, researchers point out. Samuelsen has worked with microalgae-based omega-3 in feed and uses it as an example of how Nofima works to replace an oil source in the feed. In the project Millennial Salmon, Nofima sought to determine how much of an algae-based product could be included in a salmon pellet and how it affected the fish that consumed the feed. The algae-based product Nofima tested (AlgaPrime™ DHA LS) was rich in the marine omega-3 fatty acid DHA and was supplied by Corbion. Read more>> New study tests out microalgae-based omega-3 in salmon feed One of the global leaders in animal nutrition, Nutreco received a 2024 Gold Globee® award in the category “Achievement in employee involvement and empowerment.” This prestigious award recognises the company’s exceptionally impactful and engaging Operational Excellence training but more importantly the improvements that have been delivered by colleagues across all of its Business Units as a result, Nutreco stated. To date 375 people have attended one of more of these events with 265 in 2024. “We are thrilled that Nutreco has received a Gold Globee Award, it shows the power of globally steered programme executed with discipline by the local teams” said Carl Schubert, Global Operational Excellence Director at Nutreco. “I’d like to thank our teams across the company for the incredible efforts and enthusiasm that made our operational excellence trainings so special, and that are enabling us to operate more efficiently and effectively support Nutreco’s growth” expressed Sam Pugh, Global Operational Excellence Leader. Building on their learnings from the prior year, in 2024, the Operational Excellence team used real life examples to make the trainings even more relevant, and balanced traditional bootcamp sessions with trips to the plants where they worked with colleagues to help apply the improvement tools and techniques to real business problems. This year’s bootcamp sessions took place in over a dozen countries around Nutreco, including Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Ecuador, Kenya, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Spain, Uganda, the UK, the U.S. and Vietnam. Read more>> Nutreco honoured with 2024 Gold Globee award
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