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Ground broken on Redcar fish farming factory

Work has begun on a new facility in Teesside which will house the development of a fish farming product with the potential to revolutionise the industry.

US company Calysta (UK) Ltd announced in January that it had chosen Teesside to build its development centre and after beating off competition from the likes of Scotland and Norway, ground has now been broken on the project here in the North East.

Situated beside the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) at Wilton, near Redcar, the CPI is collaborating with Calysta to develop FeedKind™ protein, a new fish feed ingredient that will reduce the aquaculture industry’s use of fishmeal and soy protein.

This is the first phase in a ten-year project to develop Calysta’s Market Introduction Facility on Teesside to undertake R&D in support of commercialising the product.

Kris Wadrop, Technical Programme Director at CPI said “We are delighted to herald this groundbreaking to progress the journey to integrate this novel loop reactor with our National Industrial Biotechnology facility.

“We beat off tough competition to secure this challenging project that will build on CPI’s core scientific and engineering knowledge of C1 gas fermentation’’.

Alan Shaw, President and CEO of Calysta, said: “We chose Teesside as a preferred location due to the commercial attractiveness, technical skills and research and development expertise in the area. This facility will enable Calysta to hone our technology and produce product samples for target markets.”