Clean. Secure. Productive.Sustainable.
Impact-9 is an integrator of aquaculture farms using our proprietary SeaStrut technology: modular pressure-adaptive cultivation tubes. These apply across aquaculture, supporting nets and growth substrates, offering stable and proportional buoyancy control and submerging autonomously when waves are present. Our integrated grid design for Seaweed and Shellfish facilitates rapid substrate connections and innovative harvesting methods. Our submersible net collars have applications in emerging finfish production systems. As an independent solutions provider, we can:
- Engineer and validate your next farm design
- Supply, install farm hardware & monitor
- Support on-site operations to continuously improve.
Reduced maintenance. Reliable Production. Safer stocks. Cleaner water.
Innovative Marine Structures are in our DNA
We have seen it all before: Established offshore companies attempt to solve new offshore challenges using old solutions. But new markets need new approaches. We have worked with synthetic fibre ropes and elastomeric materials in the marine environment to solve shallow water mooring problems: to control the dynamics of structures in big waves, without it costing the earth. When we discovered what aquaculture producers wanted to do, we got stuck right in.
Low Trophic Aquaculture - Reliable, Scalable Productivity
Seaweed & Shellfish: Submersible Grids with Adaptive Control
We provide farm solutions for seaweed and shellfish producers seeking reliable, scalable and highly productive farms. SeaStrut Grids use pressure-supported tubes to spread substrates in aggressive environments. These minimise material inputs, facilitate rapid substrate connections and offer innovative harvesting methods. Autonomous buoyancy control delivers submersion for storm protection as well as depth control for growth optimisation. Grid solutions are optimised for seaweed producers seeking high productivity per area or access to more scalable offshore, energetic marine sites. Mussel production can benefit from higher flow sites, novel substrate connection solutions, attenuation of wave dynamics and buoyancy control to compensate for biomass growth. Contact us to see if we can engineer a solution together.
Salmon - a fork in the road
Salmon: Land-based containment or open ocean solutions?
Global salmon production is a $20 bn market, focused on sheltered water bodies in Norway, Chile and Scotland. Efforts to double the sector’s production by 2030 have been constrained by the capacity of these bodies of water to host such activity sustainably. The increasing incidences of sea lice and disease as well as regulatory steps to restrict growth in sensitive marine environments means the industry is looking for new solutions. The industry has reached a fork in the road: Does it rely more on costly “closed” aquaculture in controlled tanks or does it move into “open” solutions, in new resilient open ocean zones, or submerged below sea lice. Or is it a combination of both? We believe novel submersible structures in ocean environments will play a major role in future farm architectures. A more energetic oceanic environment dilutes and dissipates bi-products as part of the natural process. Impact9’s technology heralds a new way to suspend barrier nets in these environments to help growth of an environmentally sustainable and responsible protein source for the growing world population.