ASTEC in the UK goes global with latest CGI technologies

The Astec Aquaculture Business and Science Centre in Lyne Sands, Northumberland, has invested in the latest computer-generated imagery (CGI) technology to help market its facilities to a worldwide audience.

A view of the new Astec Centre in Northumberland, UK

  The Centre has a unique offering not typically found off the North Sea coast – the ability to provide its tenants with a constant supply of near-tropical temperature seawater.  The team behind Astec - the UK’s first aquaculture business incubator centre - has developed CGI animation to explain in simple terms how this process works and to maximise its marketing potential.


The CGI Tour shows how Astec taps into seawater warmed by a neighbouring power station, filters and treats it, before pumping it to the facility’s specialist wet labs. The animation also showcases the Centre’s full range of niche facilities and highlights plans for future expansion.

CGI rendered image of warm waterflow

This unique proposition is expected to attract a wide range of marine science businesses and researchers because it enables a diverse range of aquatic plants and animals to be cultivated all year round, eliminating the logistical difficulty and cost usually involved in transporting and heating seawater for commercial or research purposes
 
“Ideally, we like to show people round the Centre and let them see first-hand the fantastic facilities we have here, “ says Emma Wilson, sales and marketing manager at Astec.
“When that’s not possible, when we’re talking to aquaculture professionals from other parts of the UK or overseas for example, our CGI tour allows us to showcase the Centre and communicate visually a process which would be difficult to explain by conventional means.”

Astec provides an ideal base for a wide range of marine-based commercial ventures and research activities. It offers private, scalable and fully customisable laboratory, office and outdoor production space, meaning it can cater for the diverse needs of start-up and more established aquaculture businesses as well as contract and project based research.

The Astec CGI tour can be viewed by visiting the company’s website at  www.astecaquaculture.com or on its you tube channel, www.youtube.com/astecaqua

For more information

Tel: +44 1670 852771
Email: info@astecaquaculture.com
Website: www.astecaquaculture.com



This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers