From our early beginnings in agriculture, we have undergone significant expansion and development, from small-scale trout-rearing in Norway to innovative nutritional solutions for over 60 species around the globe.
The EUR 6.1 million facility – a world-class R&D station that is fully dedicated to shrimp farming – establishes the ideal platform for Skretting to further expand its knowledge of shrimp nutrition and health, and to apply this intelligence on-the-ground in one of the global seafood economy’s most important shrimp producing regions.
Skretting’s second aquafeed factory in Vietnam opened in Long An Province on 18 November. The investment aims to promote sustainable growth – to better serve and bring mutual benefits to customers in the region.
To protect the ocean and ensuring that fish stocks intended for direct or indirect human consumption are caught within clearly defined, sustainable limits, Nutreco and Skretting published a responsible sourcing policy- a practical guide to decide on the type of marine ingredients that can be sourced for its global operations.
RoadMap 2025 includes Nutreco's commitment to the Science Based Target initiative, which commits to review, accept and publish Nutreco’s reduction targets in the first quarter of 2021. Nutreco embraces the objective of the Paris Agreement, to limit global temperature rises to well below 2°C and aims to contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Reflecting an investment of €24 million, the state-of-the-art facility will enable effective feed supply to key farming provinces in the Mekong Delta and beyond. With existing facilities at full capacity, the new factory will alleviate the current demand on supply. The new factory is located next to& Skretting Vietnam’s existing facilities in Thuan Dao Industrial Zone, Long An.
Nutreco launch milestone soy sourcing policy, aiming to simplify complex certification schemes for its procurement teams in Skretting and Trouw Nutrition, and facilitate the complete removal of deforestation from its supply chain by 2025. The policy forms part of Nutreco’s Sustainability Roadmap 2025.
Recognising the incredible opportunity that the aquaculture sector has, AquaVision 2020 convenes leaders, communities and stakeholders from across and beyond the aquaculture space for the first time in a global online conference.
With our sustainability roadmap to 2025, we step up our sustainability efforts and commit to taking the lead on sustainability progress
Nutreco announces it is the first feed company and one of the first three companies worldwide to lend its support to a new initiative designed to help end soy-associated deforestation in one of Brazil’s most important areas of biodiversity.
The Seafood Stewardship Index rank 30 of the most influential seafood companies in the world on their commitments, transparency and performance to meet the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Skretting and Nutreco have long been dedicated to working towards stronger targets to meet this demand. To facilitate this acceleration, Skretting CEO Therese Log Bergjord signed the UN Global Compact Sustainable Ocean Principles, committing to ensuring the health and productivity of the ocean for the future.
As part of our longstanding commitment to safeguard the world’s oceans, we allocate USD 2 million to enable the development of alternative aquaculture feed ingredients in 2020.
Hendrix Genetics, in partnership with Nutreco and Ecuacultivos, invest in Ecuador to establish a state-of-the-art shrimp hatchery.
Nutreco and Skretting presented with the edie award in the category of Sustainability Product Innovation of the Year for our innovative MicroBalance FLX concept.
WorldFish and Skretting solidify their growing partnership to address food and nutrition security in Africa through collaborative aquaculture support and innovation. The partnership focuses on understanding and analyzing the structure of the aquaculture industry in Africa, and analyzing and improving farming practices.
The project was initiated by Skretting and six other partners in 2016 as a collaborative response to reduce the use of antibiotics in the Chilean salmon industry.
Continuation of support for aquaculture growth in Africa with community development project in Zambia set to improve the livelihoods of tilapia farmers.
Groundbreaking precision shrimp farming concept Skretting 360+ maximises profit per hectare per day.
Nutreco forms a joint venture with Mumbai-based West Coast Group to supply the growing Indian aquaculture market.
Skretting Nigeria becomes wholly-owned by Nutreco.
Skretting Ecuador underlines its long-term commitment to enabling the country to ramp up its sustainable shrimp production with feed plant investment.
Opening of a new state-of-the-art shrimp feed plant as part of our commitment to Vietnam and the broader Southeast Asia region.
Skretting launches in Honduras and Nicaragua to support the growing need for sustainable shrimp feeds in both these important aquaculture markets and throughout Central America.
Our Research Station in Hezhoubei, China, opens to specialise in shrimp and Asian fish. Globally, we produce 2 million tonnes of feed.
Strategic acquisitions made in Egypt and Nigeria.
We launch our SEA (Sustainable Economic Aquaculture) program.
We produce 1 million tonnes of salmon feed in 11 months. We also launch the ORI-GO live feed product range.
We become an early participant in the WWF-initiated Aquaculture Dialogues.
Skretting becomes the name of all Nutreco fish feed companies. We also launch Nutrace®, our dynamic company-wide system for ensuring quality and food safety.
Skretting enters the Asian market with a joint-venture in Japan.
Our Feed Technology Plant (FTP) opens.
We launch AquaVision, the biennial global aquaculture conference in Stavanger, Norway. We also introduce AminoBalance, which increases our feeds' protein value.
Our owner Nutreco is founded.
Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre (ARC) is established and we open the Lerang Research Station.
We commence the commercial production of extruded feeds.
We conduct our very first aquaculture trial – on rainbow trout that are being raised in wooden cages.
The family business Skretting was established in Stavanger, Norway, selling feed and equipment to the agriculture industry.
