Evonik company profile

Evonik is one of the world's leading specialty chemicals companies. Profitable growth and a sustained increase in the value of the company form the heart of their strategy, which is supported by their owners, RAG-Stiftung (74.99 percent) and funds managed by CVC Capital Partners (25.01 percent).

Their specialty chemicals activities focus on high-growth megatrends—especially health, nutrition, resource efficiency, and globalisation—and their goal is to enter attractive future-oriented markets.

In 2011 Evonik’s roughly 33,000 employees generated sales of €14.5 billion and an operating result (EBITDA) of €2.8 billion. More than 70 percent of sales are generated outside Germany, providing convincing evidence that our business is global.

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25/01/2018: FAO to chair Offshore Mariculture Asia

Alessandro Lovatelli, Regional Fisheries and Aquaculture Officer at the FAO, will be chairing the Offshore Mariculture Asia Conference, taking place at the Marina Mandarin in Singapore from the 15-17 May 2018
 

This represents the 8th edition of the conference and the first of its kind to take place in the Southeast Asian region. According to the FAO, Fisheries and aquaculture have the capacity, if supported and developed in a regulated and environmentally sensitive manner, to contribute significantly to improving the well-being of poor and disadvantaged communities in developing countries. Aquaculture also has the potential to contribute the achievement of several of the Millennium Development Goals, especially those related to poverty reduction and food and nutrition security, environmental protection and biodiversity.

Their mission is defined as strengthening global governance and emphasises their desire to lead consensus-building towards improved conservation and utilisation of aquatic resources. The need for increasing the intensity and improving the approach of marine fish production per m2 in Southeast Asian waters was voiced by the FAO chairman at the 2016 OMC Europe Conference.

In light of this, Singapore has been chosen to host the first edition of Offshore Mariculture Asia which will take place in association with the US Soybean Export Council, USSEC. OMC Asia will provide local attendees with the chance to learn from established operations in the countries who pioneered in this industry, such as those in the European region and allow international experts, equipment suppliers and investors the opportunity to meet the local stakeholders interested in moving to cage quality finfish production.

For just US$676 you receive full documentation in electronic format, benefit from two days of technical presentations, a conference gala dinner, lunches and refreshments on conference days, and a technical visit on day three.

To benefit from this limited time offer and to secure your place at this year’s conference visit our website and enter the code *early* at the checkout.
For a limited time you can save US$119 on your delegate place, book HERE.

For more information email conferences@offshoremariculture.com.

Visit the Offshore Mariculture Conference website, HERE.

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25/01/2018: A project to drive forward new strategies for valorising aquaculture by-products

The initiative, which will be conducted throughout 2018, has the collaboration of the Foundation for Biodiversity, Spanish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment through the Pleamar Programme, co-funded by the FEMP (Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces)

Due to the stagnation of extractive fishing, aquaculture is emerging as one of the food production sectors with the greatest capacity for growth that would allow the proportion of fish in the global diet to be maintained. Yet this growth in production entails an increase in the generation of waste. The lack of the necessary infrastructure and the technical difficulties in properly managing this waste is posing a growing problem for aquaculture activities in terms of the environment, economy and legislative compliance. 

 

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Faced with this situation, AZTI and the Spanish Technological Platform for Fisheries and Aquaculture (PTEPA) are proposing to assess what the current scenario is in which aquaculture by-products are produced, and also what their interaction is with other similar by-products, mainly in the fishery sector.

 To find out which results fall into line with the needs detected, this assessment will be accompanied across all the phases of the project by contrasting actions with players of interest who participate in the valorisation chain for aquaculture by-products.

For this purpose, a committee will be formed of players with interests outside the project and who belong to the whole value chain of aquaculture and who will be contributing their experience and opinions in relation to the tasks and solutions that are going to be developed during the project.

Handbook of an informative nature
As a result of the project, the researchers will be providing the aquaculture sector with options relating to by-product valorisation in the aquaculture value chain. The main aspects will be included in an informative handbook that will allow the existing possibilities and their variables to be presented to the sector.

The "Handbook on the Valorisation of Aquaculture By-products" will include the various solutions for valorising low-value fractions that may be generated in the aquaculture value chain. At the same time, the necessary information and a methodology for preselecting one of these options depending on the scenario of study will be included.

Besides spreading the results obtained, this document will also be used as a working tool: it will provide the sector with criteria for selecting the best valorisation options -technical feasibility, economic profitability and environmental sustainability- as well as the best strategy for implementing these valorisation options. A straightforward methodology will be proposed. It will be based on schedules involving multi-criteria decisions and the hierarchical analysis of processes that will allow the valorisation options to be preselected in terms of the scenario assessed.

Finally, to ensure that the work carried out reaches the sector, communication and dissemination actions plus workshops to transfer the results will be held. In these workshops work will be done with the attendees to preselect the options on the basis of the methodology developed in the handbook. These workshops will also be used to contrast with the sector the work carried out and will allow options to improve the handbook to be detected in order to improve its usefulness.

Read the original press release on EurekAlert, HERE.

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