Proven on our own fish.
Our reference site at OFS Måløy, current planning and upgrade projects, and the pilot sites that shaped the Ontec tank.
OFS Måløy · UlvesundetOFS Måløy, our reference site.
A land-based site on the strait outside Måløy, where Ontec’s technology was proven in the Ontec Academy pilot plant.
From pilot to production.
Every step is tested on the group’s own fish before it scales.
- 2001–2016Three generations of the Ontec tank testedPilot sites in Norway, Ireland and Scotland, each generation refined from the last.
- 2018Land-based licence awarded15,000 tonnes a year for OFS Måløy.
- December 2022Ontec Academy opens with the fourth-generation pilot plantFish in the pilot facility from January 2023.
- July 2023Pilot 1 delivered at 2 kgThe first batch on the new parametric hybrid operating principle. Growth factor 4.32, and the site’s licence is made permanent.
- November 2024Pilot 2 delivered: 99% superior gradeA full stress test: 135 days at 80–126 kg/m³, with outstanding water quality and fish welfare results.
- 2024Trial approved by the Norwegian Food Safety AuthorityFish health was documented throughout by STIM. The approval cleared OFS Måløy to build out at full scale on Ontec technology.
- NextA Ø10 m parametric hybrid IPU, then the first commercial stageThe hybrid IPU built as a finished product for the first time. Then two Ø22 m tanks with Ontec’s process plant, 1,100–1,400 tonnes per year.
Dated, and on our own fish.
Delivered at 2 kg with excellent growth (growth factor 4.32), securing the site’s permanent licence. The first batch on parametric hybrid.
Delivered at 99% superior grade after 135 days at 80–126 kg/m³: a deliberate stress test, with outstanding water quality and fish welfare.
Visualisation of the planned site.
From a finished product to the first commercial stage.
Next is a Ø10 m parametric hybrid IPU, built as a finished product rather than a pilot, alongside the Ø10 m RAS IPU already at Ontec Academy. Stage one of the commercial build-out is two Ø22 m tanks of 2,800 m³ each, with a combined capacity of 1,100–1,400 tonnes of post-smolt a year. Ontec delivers the process plant.
See it for yourself.
See the tanks, the water treatment and the control system, with the people who built them. Visits by appointment.
OFS Måløy, Ulvesundet, 6700 Måløy
Planning and upgrades.
Projects where Ontec plans new capacity or upgrades an existing site.
Vestland County’s new aquaculture centre, Måløy
Ontec designed and specified the process facility for the project’s planning. Construction is pending.
Smolt facility, Western Norway
Upgrade of the on-growing division at an established smolt producer, in ongoing consultation.
Four generations, four pilot sites.
Each generation of the Ontec tank was tested at a pilot site before the next was designed.
Rognaldsvåg, Norway
First-generation design, successfully piloted.
Cork, Ireland
Second-generation design, successfully tested.
Machrihanish, Scotland
Third-generation design, successfully tested, followed by a full engineering review of every sub-system with industry partners.
Måløy, Norway
Ontec Academy pilot plant. Pilots in 2023 and 2024. Home of the Ø10 m RAS IPU and the base for what comes next.
Planning an upgrade or a new facility? Let’s look at your site.
Talk to the engineers, or come and see the system in Måløy.
