WA - Technolab

DPIRD Pemberton WA project

Katrina Powell — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 07:12:45 +0000

Always a pleasure working with Andrew Beer who heads up the team at DPIRD Pemberton native fish hatchery in the south-west of WA. The Pemberton Freshwater Research Centre (PFRC) is the largest freshwater hatchery and research facility in Western Australia with 32 ponds and 36 research tanks for hatching and rearing larval.

The production and stocking of trout is the centre’s primary function, but they are also leading the way in research for the endangered “hairy” Margaret River marron. The centre has a captive breeding program for the marron before it becomes extinct in the wild. The success of the facilities research and production of sterile triploid trout has also been recognised by many research institutions globally.

Our team were recently in Western Australia installing dissolved oxygen and temperature monitoring equipment and a control system for automatic feeding of the fish.

We wish Andrew and his team much success with their ongoing work into native and endangered fish in this area.

KB Food Company

Technolab — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:32:23 +0000

KB Food Company via its subsidiary National Fisheries has had a long association with the Lobster Industry. The business has developed industry leading Live Tanks facilities, in line with programmed cooking systems and has expanded to become the second largest Western Rock Lobster processor in Australia. National Fisheries today exports Western Rock Lobster to China, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, France and the United States.

We designed and supplied 4 individual filtration systems for their factory, each of the filters is self-contained and very easy to install. The Hydrotech drum filter Model HDF803-1G was the perfect filter for this application.

Geraldton Fisherman's Co-Op

Technolab — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 13:32:18 +0000

Having worked with Geraldton Fisherman's Co-Op previously, GFC contacted us again after the successful completion of their fish processing facility in Geraldton, Western Australia.

The brief for their new facility was to be part of a team building their crayfish holding facility in Welshpool, WA. Covering over 4000m2, the purpose-built site is the world's largest rock lobster export facility. The facility houses up to 220 tonnes of live lobster or crayfish as it more commonly referred to in Australia. With the site at Welshpool only 4km from Perth's international airport, the new aquaculture system would be able to house the rock lobster for immediate export to businesses in China.

This system was to be made up of 3 saltwater RAS systems. Our team installed the OxyGuard Pacific system which controls the measurement and monitoring of dissolved oxygen, redox, salinity and total gas pressure across 21 raceways. Full control and monitoring of the return, tank blower and bioreactor operating pressures and duty/standby management of all pumps were installed, including level and flow alarms across all systems.

Our congratulations to GFC and the Brolos brand lobsters on their amazing success in the aquaculture market and we wish them well for their future endeavours, both here in Australia and overseas.