These business challenges are closed
Sanford Ltd processes 1.5 million mussels per day. Processing that many molluscs presents all sorts of challenges. They were seeking novel proposals for High-speed Automated Processing Technologies
Mussels were graded via the mussel shell width, which in-turn estimated the mussel weight. This was important as each mussel is sorted and then blanched based on their predicted weight. Inaccuracies means many mussels are being under or over blanched. Industry needed a much more accurate method of predicting mussel weight – this was a high value challenge, that had global applications.
Ideas were pitched directly to Industry and innovation funders at the workshop associated with the AquacultureNZ conference.
$5,000 Prize for Best idea presented at AquacultureNZ Research Workshop 22nd Oct.