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Hampiðjan strengthens their ESG efforts by bringing on board ESG Director

22.09.2023

Environmental, social, and governance considerations (ESG) has become increasingly important in the business and investment landscape. As a leading industry actor, Hampiðjan Group wishes to take a proactive role in fulfilling the company’s responsibilities to both people and the planet, as well as providing the tools and knowledge necessary for their customers to deliver on their ESG targets. The company has therefore decided to strengthen their ESG initiatives by bringing on board an ESG Director who will shape the company’s sustainability strategies and business practices.

Hampiðjan’s tank trip preparations in progress

13.09.2023

Hampiðjan is preparing a session at the flume tank in Hirtshals in Denmark, taking place 28th November to 2nd December, during which a variety of fishing gears will be demonstrated and tested.

Hampiðjan‘s share offering

25.05.2023

Reykjavík, Iceland, 24 May 2023 – Hampiðjan (the „Company“), a world leader in developing and servicing products for the fisheries, aquaculture and offshore industries, has published a Prospectus in relation to a public offering and listing on the Regulated Market of Nasdaq Iceland.

Business Award

30.12.2022

Hampiðjan and CEO Hjörtur Erlendsson yesterday received the business award from trade publications Frjáls Verslun and Viðskiptablaðið

Great to be back at the flume tank after a long break

14.12.2022

After a break of two years due to the Covid pandemic, it has at last been possible to reinstate Hampiðjan’s annual session at the flume tank in Hirtshals that took place at the beginning of this month.

Hampiðjan’s flume tank session in Hirtshals Presenting new technology and sharing opinions

28.09.2022

Hampiðjan’s flume tank sessions in Hirtshals, testing and demonstrating different fishing gears, are a tradition that has grown over the last few decades.

Trawl gear becomes BMW electric car components

26.09.2022

Recycled trawl gear used in electric car production

New sales talent joins Hampiðjan

30.08.2022

The latest recruit to the Hampiðjan team is Hróðmar Ingi Sigurðsson. His role will be to concentrate on sales of trawl doors and warps, as well as general fishing gear and related items.

Hampiðjan – business with Russia

11.07.2022

Hampiðjan wholeheartedly condemns the Russian aggression in Ukraine and its ongoing action in the invasion of a democratic sovereign state.

Guðmundur Gunnarsson decorated with the Order of the Falcon

17.06.2022

Guðmundur Gunnarsson, formerly Head of Development at Hampiðjan, has been decorated by President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson with the Order of the Falcon at a ceremony held at the Presidential residence of Bessastaðir, which took place today, 17th June 2022, Iceland’s National Day.

Starring role at IceFish awards

14.06.2022

Hampiðjan played a central role at the industry awards, a key part of the IceFish exhibition which took place last week in Kópavogur.

Putting the emphasis on Dynice Optical Data netsounder cable

7.06.2022

‘Exhibitions in general, and not least the event taking place here in Iceland, are highly important for Hampiðjan as meeting points, strengthening links with existing customers and establishing contact with new ones.

The Gulltoppur groundfish trawl

30.05.2022

Hampiðjan’s Gulltoppur groundfish trawl is the result of extensive underwater research and development on board trawlers in Iceland that during the 1980s used 105-foot Mars and 90-foot Vestfirðingur trawls.

Hampiðjan’s new environmental director

2.05.2022

Georg Haney has been appointed as the new environmental director at Hampiðjan, and he comes to the company after ten years of working wth fishing gear research at Iceland’s Marine and Freshwater Research Institute.

Keeping up with the twin-riggers

27.04.2022

Síldarvinnslan’s freezer trawler Blængur has recently completed a trip in the Norwegian zone of the Barens Sea, and what attracted interest was that Blængur’s catch rates with its single trawl were not far behind those of the twin-rig trawlers on the same fishing grounds.

New shallow purse seine put through its paces

16.02.2022

‘We started fishing of the Skarður shore and were off Alviðruhamrar when we called it a day and headed back to port. The catch was 1800 tonnes, taken in four shots.

Viðey’s perfectly-tuned Jagger

20.01.2022

When he was ashore just after New Year, we spoke to Kristján E. Gíslason, who skippers Viðey RE-50 opposite Jóhannes Ellert Eiríksson, to ask about the outstanding success they and their crew have achieved as Iceland’s top-catching fresher trawler for 2021, having landed 10,347 tonnes over the year with a catch value of ISK2.1 billion.

Controllable doors from Thyborøn

28.12.2021

Trials carried out with the crew of Danish pelagic vessel Themis S-144 from Skagen in the week before Christmas, confirm that the latest trawl doors from Thyborøn look highly promising.

Pelagic trawling with DynIce Data netsounder cable

9.12.2021

Owners of 110 fishing vessels around the world have bought DynIce sounder cable since 2015.

Versatile T90 Excluder separates pelagic catches

16.11.2021

Danish fishing gear company Cosmos Trawl, part of the Hampiðjan Group, has designed and developed a new selectivity device that looks very promising.