a nutreco company Skretting Active Nutrition Sustainable development R&D Quality News YOU ARE HERE: › R&D Area of expertise Infrastructure Research projects . R&D The Aquaculture Research Center (ARC) is the organization dedicated to research and development that allows Skretting to maintain its leadership position within a booming global industry. Skretting ARC employs an international team of highly qualified technicians and has a large annual budget. 30 of the 80 employees are researchers. Skretting ARC is based in Stavanger (Norway) and has research stations in Italy, Spain, China and Japan. Skretting ARC also collaborates with several institutes and private companies around the world on numerous research projects. Skretting ARC's areas of expertise are fish nutrition, fish health, feed production technology and analytical methodology. Click on the image below to view our R&D brochure. To print Extranet Username: Password: Log in Home Contacts Useful links Legal notices Webmaster

a nutreco company Skretting Active Nutrition Sustainable development R&D Quality News YOU ARE HERE: › Quality Nutrace Faq Film Skretting - Tracing the Truth! . Quality The granules are produced in different sizes, shapes and densities. They can sink, float completely, and even float to varying degrees. All Skretting feeds must, before leaving the production site for delivery to breeders, go through the quality system whose four parameters are hardness, durability, elasticity and water content. These characteristics together determine the physical quality of the food and its ability to withstand handling, for example not turning into dust during transport or not breaking during distribution by an automatic system. To be able to go through the quality system before delivery to you, the granules must comply with a number of parameters which describe the physical quality with strict compliance objectives. This model has been developed from a large number of tests and therefore we can say that it is probable that a granulate declared compliant after these tests is suitable for a properly functioning feed distribution system. A newly developed unique simulator, named Doris , helped us find the limit values. This simulator reproduces with great accuracy the way aquaculture feed will behave in feed distribution systems . Doris is now in the worksin all Skretting sites and it functions as a real "watchdog" at the service of the customers. This simulator takes samples of all the food produced . If it signals an anomaly, the batch of food is immediately discarded. If it signals that all is well, it means with virtual certainty that the physical quality of the food is good enough for bulk transport and for possible distribution systems. To print Extranet Username: Password: Log in Home Contacts Useful links Legal notices Webmaster