Our Products

Our factories at Bjugn and Lysøysundet on the beautiful Fosen peninsula, are the manufacturing bases of our traditional core business, producing hydrolysed fish by-products and oils from the base material fish silage*. We make each product series (oil, concentrate and meal) from what we term red fish and white fish raw material.

Red fish – salmonids – salmo salar, salmo trutta and oncorhynchus mykiss
White fish – demersal and pelagic species – mainly atlantic cod, haddock, saithe and hallibut, herring, mackerel and brisling sprattus sprattus

Our raw material is 100% sustainable, being the by-products of fish processing – fish heads, spines and viscera. No fish are caught specifically to supply our Fosen plants. Each of the hydrolysed protein products listed below is available either as red fish or white fish derived.

Hydrolysed fish protein concentrate

The distinguishing points of our hydrolysed fish protein concentrate (FPC) products are their long shelf life and high digestibility, increasing their feed value and reducing animal effluent. Because of their high protein and low oil content, our products are ideally suited as animal feedstuffs, petfood and fish feed ingredients, particularly for animals at weaning and early growth stage. Giving any farmed animal a good start at weaning stage means they are quicker onto an adult ‘grower’ diet, gaining weight more quickly and efficiently.

We have flexibility of control over our manufacturing processes and can make fish protein concentrate at the concentration levels required by our customers. Our hydrolysed products, until recently, have only been supplied in moist form, but we now also offer them in dry meal form, with high protein and low fat content.

Hydrolysed fish meal

Our new hydrolysed fish meal has been scientifically tested and has excellent characteristics of feed value, digestibility and shelf life.

Oils

Scanbio fish oils are produced alongside the protein products at the Bjugn and Lysøysund factories and are primarily sold into the animal feed and technical industries.

Standard fish meal from our Båtsfjord plant

Scanbio Group acquired the Milpro plant in Båtsfjord in the high arctic north of Norway in 2004, producing standard grade fish meal from up to 100,000 of feedstock from wild caught seasonal species herring and capelin as well as fish processing by-products. The cold clear waters of the Barents Sea yield the finest resources available in the world for us to produce the very best quality fish meal.

What is fish silage?

Fish silage is conserved fish waste made up of heads, spines (frames), trimmings and offal which has been finely chopped and dosed with a small amount of formic acid, followed by thorough mixing. The acid is used to create an environment in which spoilage bacteria cannot function, allowing the enzymes in the offal to digest the tissue of the fish. After a period of five to ten days, depending on the temperature of the silage, the protein content will have fully liquefied, making a product with a considerably long shelf life. The advantage of conserving fish waste in this way is that it enables smaller fish producers to store their waste until they have sufficient volume to make transporting it to a central processing plant economical.

Chemical composition

Protein	Typ	8.5%	Min	8%
Fat	Typ	18%	Min	15%
TVN	Typ	4%	Max	5%
Totox	Typ	20%	Max	25
Dry matter	Typ	30%
pH	Typ	3.8	Max	4.0

How is silage re-processed?

By heating and subjecting the silage to high velocity separation and centrifuging, it splits out into ‘stick’ water, oil and protein liquor. Further processing polishes the oil to produce a high quality raw material for further processing into finished products. The stick water and protein are put through an evaporation process to drive off more water, ending up at a 35% protein 4% oil concentrate called marine protein concentrate, (MPC) or fish protein concentrate, (FPC).

Futher Information

Production, from raw materials to finished products - PDF File 69kb

Scan-pro 35/4 Marine Protein Concentrate - PDF File 83kb

Product Spec, Fish Meal - PDF file 91kb

FEMAS CERTIFICATE OF CONFORMITY - PDF file 101kb