Looking to enhance equipment longevity, sustainability, and performance in the aquaculture sector? This was the topic of interest for many chatting to the NewSkin OITB team at #Aqua2024 last week. Thanks to those to stopped by to pickup a flyer and/or have a chat to discover what nano-surface, nano-coating and membrane technology innovations NewSkin could help the aquaculture sector accelerate to market! Thanks also to NewSkin partner AquaTT for representing us. 

NewSkin is one of a number of EU-funded Open Innovation Test Beds (OITB), designed to support getting EU nano-technology innovations into the market. NewSkin OITB helps to upscale and test solutions for the surface finishing for different materials (including steel, ceramics, composites, glass, polymers & membranes) – adding high-performance functionality such as anti-fouling, anti-corrosion, anti-bacterial, &/or anti-icing to protect, prolong and increase the efficiency of components and structures.

NewSkin OITB would be of most interest to anyone making aquaculture & offshore equipment (also boats/ships) and especially in salt-water. For example, in saline recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) where the pumps and other elements suffer from corrosion and/or fouling – NewSkin OITB facilities and its Ecosystem own mature technologies are suitable for: 

 

·         Efficient water filtration for RAS systems increasing fouling resistance. 

·         Reducing pumping systems energy consumption, cavitation, wear and corrosion.

·         Overcome the challenges to bio-fouling growth and corrosion. (e.g. in structures, in tanks, pipes,  on sensors)

Moreover, NewSkin OITB and INNOMEM OITB between them, offer a complete service portfolio facilities for the prototyping,  characterisation and development of innovative technologies for aquaculture.  

 

Together, NewSkin and INNOMEM OITB offer lighthouse facilities (17 upscaling and 16 testing centres across Europe) to help support SMEs, start-ups, research labs and industry to accelerate novel nano-surface and membrane functionalisation innovations from lab to pilot scale and into production of commercial or personal products! Additionally, we offer route-to-market services, including Life Cycle Analysis, nano-safety assessment, business planning, and networking, to our OITB users. 

 

We encourage you to connect with our ecosystem, to openly discuss how our technologies and services portfolio may help you to improve your business.

Download your own copy of the NewSkin Water Technologies flyer here