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American Industrial Partners to Acquire Aker BioMarine’s Feed Ingredients Business
American Industrial Partners (“AIP”), a global industrials investor, announced it has acquired an ownership position in Aker BioMarine’s Feed Ingredients segment. Feed Ingredients will be held by a newly established company (“Aker BioMarine Antarctic Holding II AS”), which will be owned 60% by AIP and 40% by Aker ASA (via its wholly owned subsidiary Aker Capital AS). The Company is the world’s only industrial-scale krill harvester and brings a natural, sustainable, and health-promoting source of nutrients into both animal and human nutrition.
Aker BioMarine Digitalizes its Operations in Houston Plant to Improve Sustainability Efforts, Maintenance and More
“Aker BioMarine has more than 3 billion data points in Cognite Data Fusion,” said Ole Thoresen, Director Digitalization & Improvements, Aker BioMarine. “Big data is the next wave of technology in the krill oil market. By utilizing this platform, we are able to solve issues before they arise. We also have the ability to be more sustainable and safe, and that is extremely important in our industry.”
“This data acquisition and data visualization platform is a unique tool that allows us to visualize any trend with time and even superimposed trends with time, something impossible to do before,” said Laurent David, Director of Technology Development Engineering, Aker BioMarine. “With data processing, we will benefit from the huge quantity of mass flow-meter we have in the Houston plant. In the future, we will be able to make daily mass balance, meaning that we will be able to master our daily consumption. In the past we had to wait a month to detect problems and now we have access to daily data. Finally, we will soon have the capability of connecting info from our vessel in Antarctica to the Houston plant.”