Skretting Aquaculture Innovation (AI): Where science meets industry

Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre (ARC) was first established in Norway in 1989, and renamed Skretting Aquaculture Innovation (AI) in 2021. Our employees work in the Norwegian headquarters, as well as in satellite research stations in Chile, China, Ecuador, Italy and Japan.

Skretting AI develops innovative and sustainable solutions that meet the needs of the rapidly changing aquaculture industry. We conduct scientific research that leads to new sustainable products and solutions, supported by digital tools and the breadth of innovation found within the Skretting business. We also invest in areas that will have medium- and long-term impact on our business activities, such as cell-based protein.

Skretting AI cultivates close relationships with academic and industry partners and is one of the best places to work for our world-class researchers and marketing experts.

Our goal is to enable Skretting to maintain our position as an industry and innovation leader and deliver on our purpose of Feeding the Future.

Skretting AI at a glance

Established
1989

Research on 10 key species

€ 23MN
annual investment

A highly-skilled team: +140 specialists

40 PhDs and researchers from +25 countries

Our people

Our diverse, highly skilled team represents almost 30 nationalities. Their expertise spans the full range of scientific and commercial know-how needed to understand our industry. They work in close collaboration with global networks across Skretting and external partners to deliver meaningful innovations that meet customer needs and contribute to a more sustainable aquaculture industry.

Our core competences

Nutrition

Understanding the nutritional needs of each species and knowing the composition and functionality of each raw material is crucial in order for us to formulate diets.

Health

Our health competence plays a key role in securing fish and shrimp survival, contributing to the sustainability of the global aquaculture industry.

Feed production

Our expertise on production processes and technologies enables us to create novel feed concepts, while increasing the flexibility and functionality of our diets without compromising physical quality.

Trial execution

Our knowledge within trial execution allows us to achieve fast and reliable test results, contributing to the development of high performance feed products.

Analysis and data science

Our data and analytics competence supports data driven decision making. We analyse 600,000 samples annually, generating 3 million analytical results that set global standards.

Skretting AI facilities around the globe

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Delphine Crappe at Skretting's The Bubble — The Skretting Bubble, based in Stavanger, Norway, adds pioneering radical technologies to our R&D facilities. Here, we test and develop radical methodologies focused on biology and biochemistry.

Forklift at Skretting AI FTP — At our pilot-scale feed technology plant (FTP) in Stavanger, Norway, we explore the latest production technology, new feed formulations, and potential raw materials. We produce sample batches of prototype feeds and supply a wide range of experimental feeds to our research stations and cooperating research institutes for further optimisation.

Lab worker at the Skretting AI laboratory — The Skretting AI laboratory in Stavanger, Norway, is an internationally-accredited aquaculture lab where we conduct precise measurements of the nutritional value of our feed components and evaluate the composition, performance, and quality of our products with the help of NIR calibrations and state of the art equipment and methodologies.

Lerang RAS facilties — The Skretting AI Lerang Research Station in Norway is one of the most advanced aquaculture research facilities in the world, and specialises in increasing the performance of salmon. Lerang serves as Skretting AI’s trial execution competence centre and also houses our RAS knowledge centre.

Skretting AI Guayas research station — Our world class Skretting AI Guayas Research Station in Ecuador is fully dedicated to shrimp farming to further expand our 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.

Feed plant in Pargua — The Skretting AI Pargua Research station in Chile conducts research focused on salmon and trout, and is home to state of the art recirculation systems with full environmental control for salmon and trout.

Kagoshima facilities — The Skretting AI Kagoishma Research station in Japan specialises in yellowtail kingfish and red sea bream and is located within the premises of Kagoshima University, offering a unique advantage of combining academic competence with our knowledge and network.

Mozzecane research facilities — Feed advancements for freshwater trout are assessed in Skretting AI Mozzecane Research Station in northern Italy.

Setting up for tomorrow's growth areas

An important part of our innovation work is to identify and prioritise future growth areas. For that reason, we systematically analyse trends that will have a medium- and long-term impact on our business activities. In doing so, we think beyond the boundaries of our company and examine promising research areas or fields of business not yet covered by our current portfolio. One clear example of this, is our investment in our in-house biotechnology research lab, The Bubble. Here, we test and develop radical methodologies focused on biology and biochemistry, allowing our team to lead and develop the future of aquaculture research.

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Research publications

Our researchers regularly publish articles in scientific publications. Explore to learn more.

Women in science

At Skretting AI, women are leading in science! 52% of our research projects in 2023 were run by women, who make up 60% of our staff.