The partnership highlights a shared commitment to driving positive change in fish slaughter, handling, and processing globally through innovation, efficiency, sustainability, and welfare. Together, JBT Marel and Ace Aquatec will be able to offer customers a seamless product line for the entire seafood value chain covering harvesting and processing solutions with data insights software.
Ace Aquatec’s award-winning humane stunner universal (A-HSU®) ensures humane, welfare-first stunning that avoids stress at harvest which can impact quality. The A-HSU® stuns fish insensible in a controlled, in-water environment in less than one second. The multi-award-winning system complements JBT Marel’s comprehensive fish processing portfolio, underlining the commitment of both companies to creating a sustainable fish industry.
Fish processors will benefit from the integration of solutions of both portfolios with improved processing results, lowered production costs, higher profits, and full traceability of the production process. With growing demand for higher welfare food - 85% of UK consumers believe that farmed fish should be awarded higher welfare protection - the JBT Marel and Ace Aquatec partnership means consumers, too, can be confident their purchasing choices are supporting responsible practices and enjoy fish with better welfare credentials and a reduced environmental footprint.
