Nordisk konferanse
Verdiskaping av marine biprodukter etter år 2000
Stjørdal 24. og 25. januar 2001

Nye maskiner for skånsom sløying i flåten og lakseindustrien
Ole Holst Nielsen
Baader GmbH & Co
Postfach 1102
D-23501 LÜBECK
TYSKLAND

Ladies and Gentlemen,
First of all I would like on behalf of the Baader Group to thank Stiftelsen RUBIN for the opportunity to talk to you today about further processing of gut packages with the final aim of increasing the overall value of the ever decreasing fish quotas.
Before I go into further details, I would like to make the statement, that the Baader Group does not see it as a part of its core business to get involved in the actual processing of gut packages and we have no intention to go into such development projects.
We do however see a sound and safe recovery of gut packages as part of the Baader core business. This is not a new approach; please be reminded, that as early as at the beginning of the 90ies Baader further developed its Alaska Pollock processing line Ba 212 to recover the gut package incl. the roe sack and in a sound and safe way.
You will please bear with me that I will not go into too many technical details about forthcoming projects about recovery of gut packages. I will however advise you that the Baader Group in cooperation with Stiftelsen RUBIN and another Norwegian organisation have decided to look into recovery of the gut packages from the Ba 142, the Salmon Gutting Machine, allowing the Salmon processors the opportunity to provide the Salmon guts to further processing industries in such way that high valued Salmon oil can be produced from the guts.
The Baader Group will very shortly carry out the tests of its new on board heading and gutting machine in cooperation with a Norwegian trawler owner. Over and above the general functions of this new heading and gutting machine, the Baader 444, we will also concern ourselves with the task to delivery the gut package incl. roe sacks as safe and sound as possible.
The Ba 444 is meant to replace the Ba 161 and Ba 162 which do not provide the possibility to recover the gut packages at all.
Based upon the cooperation with Stiftelsen RUBIN as well as some Norwegian industrial enterprises like f.e. Wiikholm, Fjord Seafond and Lofoten Traalerrederi Baader has decided to give priority to above two development projects with the very clear aim of hopefully being in a position to provide new technology for the fish processing industry to generate a higher profit.
It is anticipated that the Ba 142 project shall commence March 2001. I do however require anyone to please bear in mind, that we are talking about research and development and that this has a tendency to last longer that we plan. The Baader Group hope and trust in a continued fruitful cooperation with RUBIN, the Norwegian authorities as well as with the Norwegian fishing industry.