AquaBioTech Group

Business Mission To Ghana
2023-01-17 | (Accra, Ghana)
We are pleased to announce that we will be joining the business trade delegation, organised by TradeMalta in collaboration with The Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade.
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📆 17 January 2023
📍 Movenpick Ambassador Hotel Accra, Ghana
This is a multi-sector business mission that aims to provide Malta-based businesses with the opportunity to expand into new markets or grow existing business relationships. Representing AquaBioTech Group, our Business Development Director George D. Mantas and our Chief Operations Officer Carmelo Abela.
This B2B event offers a great platform for AquaBioTech Group to meet local entrepreneurs and institutional stakeholders that are looking to undertake new projects or seek specialised expert advice, services, and technology from AquaBioTech Group.
Ghana is a strategic partner in Sub-Saharan Africa for Malta and Europe. Aquaculture and fisheries sectors have been long established and are an integral part of the economy and significant contributors for coastal and rural communities providing employment and food security. In recent years challenges have intensified in these sectors and AquaBioTech Group’s international experience and capacity can contribute positively to the transition in sustainability efforts that are underway, helping to ensure the prosperity of these sectors in the long-term.
Agenda for the day:

Day 1 – Attending the 3rd Malta – Ghana Business Forum and the Inauguration of the Malta High Commission to Ghana
Day 2 – Attending information sessions of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre – GIPC and the Ghana Export Promotion Authority – GEPA
Day 3 – B2B Individual Meeting Days
Day 4 – B2B Individual Meeting Days

➡️ Our representatives will be present in Ghana from the Monday 16th till the Friday 20th January 2023. Hence, for those who would like to schedule a meeting them >> gdm@aquabt.com | caa@aquabt.com
More information on the day “Here”. You can register “Here”

FoodLAND annual project meeting
2023-01-19 - 2023-01-20 | (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
The annual FoodLAND project meeting will take place in Zanzibar, Tanzania on 19-20 January 2023.
On the agenda are two full days of discussion and presentations with our 27 partners from Europe and Africa regarding the progress made thus far, innovations and the future activities within the FoodLAND framework.
What is the FoodLand project?
FoodLAND project aims to develop, implement, and validate innovative, scalable, and sustainable technologies. These are aimed at supporting the nutritional performance of local food systems in Africa, while strengthening agro-biodiversity and food diversity to incorporate dietary diversity.
FoodLAND will foster nutrition-responsive and sustainable agro-biodiversity with the aim to empower smallholder farmers and food operators, in order to reinforce the productivity and resilience of food supply chains. It will create new market opportunities on a local and global scale, thereby encouraging the flourishing of rural communities. These achievements will benefit both African and European consumers by providing them with traditional-based, healthy, nutritious foods, while encouraging the diffusion of African diets and aiding the fight against malnutrition, particularly in women and children.

MELoDIZER Kick-Off Meeting
2023-01-30 - 2023-01-31 | (Torino, Italy)
We are glad to announce that we are part of the new Horizon Europe Programme Project MELoDIZER.
A hybrid kick-off meeting has been planned on the 30th -31st of January, with the 18 partners, in Torino, Italy. On the agenda two full days of introduction, presentations, and discussions about the different phases of the project. Representing AquaBioTech Group on this first meeting is our Aquaculture Consutlant Thanasis Chantzaropoulos.

What is MELoDIZER?
MEloDIZER implements high performance membranes and modules in strategic applications of Membrane distillation (MD), hence providing the decisive step for the success of MD. These core components are fabricated with a focus on feasible wide uptake and on sustainability, substituting harmful materials and protocols with >80% of benign solvents and relying on green chemistry principles. Both flat-sheets and innovative hollow-fibres are produced, striking the optimum between productivity and energy efficiency, as well minimising fouling/wetting phenomena, also by applying novel sacrificial coatings while membranes are in situ. Optimised modules are developed with a focus on hydrodynamics and energy recovery improvement.
These activities are strongly supported by sustained modelling tasks, conducted at different scales to (i) control the relationship between membrane properties and performance, (ii) customise module geometry and (iii) increase system efficiency and automation. The membranes and modules are thus rationally installed as core components of four MD prototypes spanning three orders of magnitude of productivity. Two protypes (2-5m3/day, 0.5-2m3/day) are demonstrated in industrial facilities (textile, beverage, chemical industry) to reuse wastewater (70-90%), thus reducing water footprint and approaching zero waste, as well as to recover valuable nutrients as secondary raw materials from aquaculture wastewater.

Our role in MEloDIZER

Participate in the valorization of waste streams and provide wastewater for use in demo sites to determine the possibility of nutrient recovery (targeting P & N).
Participate in the training on the use of the prototype filtration system.
Provide data for Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Cost Analysis, techno-economic assessment, business cases, market opportunities and regulation assessment.
Co-lead the training and capacity-building task.

More details on the MEloDIZER project coming soon, so stay tuned!!
