🇮🇸 Landeldi ehf. in Dafna creates 170 new jobs
Press release from KLAK
Landeldi ehf. is one of the companies that received funding from the Tech Development Fund last year that attends Thrive’s workshops, a mentoring program for Sprota – and Growth Grant recipients in collaboration with the Technology Development Fund.
Posted on Visir on February 25, 2023
Construction to establish the country’s largest land farming is currently underway in Þorlákshöfn, where 40,000 tonnes of salmon are to be raised annually, where all the aquaculture waste in the facility will be used for intensive fertilizers. Around 170 new jobs will be created in the area.
Landeldi ehf., is Icelandic company that focuses on salmon farming that takes place entirely on land. The company was founded in 2017 and is supported by entrepreneurs with experience and interest in aquaculture, construction, geothermal processing, business and finance.
Rúnar Þór Þórarinsson is head of the sustainability and development division at Landeldi and knows best about the operation in Þorlákshöfn.
“The main project is there some 150 to 160 vessels, which is carried out for some 70 billion over the next 10 years. It’s a very big project. We’re off to a good start. We have had larvae at Öxnalækur in Ölfus, where we completely renovated the station, which we bought as soon as the EIA was in port. We have salmon in a sea vat down to Þorlákshöfn, a large vessel, 15 and 20 metres and we are building 25 and 30 metres vats this year,” says Rúnar Þór.
Rúnar says that Þorlákshöfn is a great place under landfire.
“There’s a unique situation because that’s where we have water, which Iceland filters for us. There are very permeable strata, sand and rocks alternately, which flowed there during volcanic eruptions seven to twenty thousand years ago. And this sea cleans both parasites, plastic particles and other things, which can harm the fish.”
And the land fire will create many new jobs in Þorlákshöfn.
“Yes, we are talking about 170 to 200 direct jobs and much more during the construction period. One thing I say, this is an expensive project of ISK 70 billion, but there is a very good outlook for product prices in the world because the demand for salmon is high and the price is high,” says Rúnar Þór.
It is noteworthy that all waste from the sheets will be used, as fertilizer.
“Yes, the habitat of land farming has been close to our hearts. It’s in our DNA, as a company. We intend to collect the fish dung and work with other aquaculture to use it for good on land, thereby supporting agriculture through fertilizer production, biocoal production and compost production by whatever means are needed,” says Rúnar Þór.
Originally published on 28 February.
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