Pentair and Urban Organics Collaborate to Advance Aquaponics Industry
September 03 2015 - 8:00AM
Collaboration aims
to accelerate development of large-scale commercial
aquaponics
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom - September 3, 2015 -
Pentair plc (NYSE: PNR), a global company helping its customers
produce more food, energy and efficiencies from each drop of water,
and Urban Organics, LLC, which has a large-scale indoor aquaponics
farm in St. Paul, Minn., announced a new collaboration to
accelerate the development of commercial scale modern
aquaponics.
"Aquaculture and aquaponics have the potential to
help the world meet its growing need for protein, and we have the
technologies and expertise to help grow the industry while
sustainably producing food with less waste, energy and water,"
states Randall J. Hogan, Pentair Chairman and CEO. "The
collaboration with Urban Organics is one more step in our efforts
to help this new industry bring healthy food to developing
countries, arid climates and space-challenged urban centers."
Initially, the venture will establish and operate
an 87,000-square-foot indoor aquaponics facility in the former
Schmidt's brewery building in St. Paul. This will be one of
the largest commercial aquaponics facilities in the world and will
have the potential to annually produce 275,000 lbs. of fresh char,
salmon, or trout, and 400,000 lbs. of organically grown produce,
including hydroponic basil, mint, kale, chard, lettuce, and
watercress. Construction plans for the new facility are underway in
anticipation of harvesting the first produce and fish by summer
2016.
"The founders of Urban Organics are very excited
to collaborate with Pentair to bring commercial scale aquaponics
farming into the main stream," states David Haider, Co-founder of
Urban Organics and Manager of the new St. Paul facility. "Our
customers have encouraged us to expand and with our new operations
we will provide them with consistent, weekly supplies of fresh fish
and produce harvested locally at our urban farm throughout the
year."
The two companies first started working together
when Urban Organics opened its inaugural aquaponics farm in 2014 in
the former Hamm's brewery building in St. Paul. Pentair, with its
innovative technologies in water systems and solutions and
biological and technical expertise, worked closely with Urban
Organics to design, install and engineer the world-class system-one
of the largest and most advanced aquaponics facilities in the
country.
Reimagining Farming with
Aquaculture and Aquaponics
Aquaculture, or fish farming, is the world's fastest-growing
agriculture sector and produces more than 50 percent of the global
seafood supply.* Aquaponics is the combined culture of fish and
hydroponic vegetable crops in a closed-loop, recirculating
aquaculture system (RAS). In aquaponics, fish provide the nutrients
that plants need to grow, and the plants act as a filter to improve
the water quality for the fish. Pentair has been instrumental in
helping commercial operations around the globe integrate
traditional fish farms and plant production with its RAS
solutions.
Recently, Pentair announced the opening of its
Pentair Aquatic Eco-Systems' World Aquaculture Technology
Engineering & Research Center of Excellence in Apopka, Florida.
The center, which consists of 12,400-square-feet of laboratories
and fish culture systems, is used for demonstration, research and
teaching activities. Built to allow full connectivity to the
Internet, customers and educational institutions are able to
monitor online the progress of fish culture trials, including water
quality, feeding, feed conversion ratios, growth rates, energy
consumption and harvesting activities.
The World Aquaculture Technology Engineering &
Research Center of Excellence is located on the campus of Pentair
Aquatic Eco-Systems, which houses offices, a customer contact
center, and manufacturing and warehouse operations. For more
information, visit pentairaes.com.
About
Pentair
Pentair plc (pentair.com) delivers industry-leading products,
services and solutions for its customers' diverse needs in water
and other fluids, thermal management and equipment protection. With
2014 revenues of $7.0 billion, Pentair employs approximately 30,000
people worldwide.
About Urban
Organics
Urban Organics is an indoor aquaponics facility providing
hyperlocal, sustainable, year-round fish and USDA certified greens
to the Twin Cities. Located in the historic Hamm's brewery, Urban
Organics has been featured in numerous national media outlets and
has been highlighted by The Guardian as one of
the most innovative urban farm projects in the world. To learn
more, visit urbanorganics.com and facebook/uo.saintpaul.
*Source:
"State of the World
Fisheries and Aquaculture Report." Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2014.
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Pentair Contact:
Rebecca
Osborn
Senior Manager, External Communications
Email: rebecca.osborn@pentair.com
Tel: +1 (763) 656-5580
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