The engineering arm of Madrid, Spain-based multinational consulting firm Everis and the Peruvian unit of the same company have come together to build an extensive recirculation aquaculture system (RAS) in Ahuashiyacu, in northern Peru’s San Martín region, everis Ingeniería announced in a release.
Everis Ingeniería and Everis Peru will supply and install 14 RAS systems for producing Amazonian species such as tilapia (Oreochromis sp.), paiche (Arapaima gigas), gamitana (Colossoma macropomum), and paco (Colossoma paco). The plant will also be equipped for the production of live food such as algae, rotifers, copepods, and artemia. Neither the price tag nor the expected completion date were reported.
Works are to be carried out at the Aquaculture Productive Innovation and Technology Transfer Center, CITE, which offers training and technical assistance to aquaculture businesses aiming to adopt new technologies to increase competitiveness, innovation capacity, and product development. It belongs to Peru’s Institute of Production (ITP) and forms part of a government initiative to develop aquaculture production in the region.
The systems will enable on-land production “with minimal water consumption and impact on the environment...with biological safety guarantees and optimal growth rates,” the company said.
According to Everis Ingeniería’s website, the company is focused on the aquaculture arena in order to respond to the call to sustainably feed the world, which is estimated to have a population of around 9.6 billion people by 2050. Its services include technical and economic feasibility studies of aquaculture projects, as well as the design, construction, setup, and operation of production plants. Aiming to create “intelligent aquaculture” with its projects, the firm applies technology such as big data, internet of things, blockchain, and artificial intelligence.
Everis is an NTT DATA company, performing consulting and outsourcing in all sectors, with more than 17,000 professionals across Europe, the U.S., and Latin America.
