One closed loop, from by-product to feed.
Our units sit beside the by-product producer. Artemia grow in closed tanks that recycle their water, are harvested continuously and processed into the form customers need.
Capture by-products
Our units sit beside dairies, breweries and distilleries. By-products like salty whey and permeate become our feedstock.
Cultivate Artemia
Artemia grow in capital-light recirculating tanks. Vision and sensors monitor every tank around the clock.
Harvest & process
Harvested continuously, then supplied live or processed into paste or Artemeal™.
Deliver to feed
Traceable batches for hatcheries and feed producers, produced year-round close to where they're used.
What it takes to make it work.
Hatching Artemia from cysts is routine. Growing them to adults continuously, at high density and on industrial by-products, is not. Here is how we approach it.
Big harvests, small tanks
- The challenge
- At high density, water quality swings fast, and without microalgae as feed a culture can collapse within hours.
- Our solution
- Recirculating tanks engineered for Artemia: simple by design, smart in operation. They cost a fraction of a fish farm's system, and our AI acts before a tank drifts.
Big harvests, small tanks
At high density, water quality swings fast, and without microalgae as feed a culture can collapse within hours.
Recirculating tanks engineered for Artemia: simple by design, smart in operation. They cost a fraction of a fish farm's system, and our AI acts before a tank drifts.
Growing on waste
Food-industry by-products vary by site, season and batch. Most can't be fed to Artemia as they come.
Each by-product gets its own preparation recipe. Today we focus on dairy: salty whey and permeate. We can test any feedstock with particles under 50 µm.
Breeding the perfect animal
Wild Artemia were never selected for life on land or for industrial feedstocks.
A breeding programme with the Roslin Institute laid the foundation and lets us select on the first traits that matter for production.
AI-guided analysis
Counting and sizing thousands of small, fast-moving animals by hand is impossible.
Computer vision we built in-house counts, sizes and tracks every animal.
Going where the waste is
Liquid by-products are heavy, perishable and expensive to move.
A mobile unit that sits beside the producer, proven at Boortmalt and now running at a dairy partner.
- In view
- 30
- Length
- 5.8mm
- Speed
- 11.3mm/s
Averaged over every frame of the clip, so one count describes the whole sample. Live now: 53 in the full sample.
Every organism, counted, sized, tracked.
Our computer vision follows every Artemia frame by frame, measuring its length and swim speed. Below the video, the whole clip is averaged into one reliable count per sample.
Counted frame by frame in the zoomed view
Median body length of animals in frame
Median speed, tracked between frames
Real footage from an Aquanzo sample. Lengths and speeds are calibrated from the sample dish diameter [TBC].
The whole site, on one screen.
Every tank, sensor and harvest feeds one control platform, so operators see growth, water quality and feeding in one place. Every batch keeps its own data trail. The view shown here is illustrative.
- Input
- By-product feed metered per tank
- Control
- Sensor-driven dosing & environment tuning
- Tracking
- Vision-based Artemia counting & sizing
- Output
- Harvest planning & batch traceability
- Learning
- Each production run informs the next
Want to see it in action?
Talk to us about samples, by-product partnerships or our technology.