production facility at Valsneset in Norway that is ca- pable of producing 270,000 tons of feed per year on two production lines. This production volume covers 80 percent of the needs of Marine Harvest’s Norwe- gian fish farms. The new, fully automated facility allows the com- pany to extend its quality control all the way from fish food to the final delivery of portioned fish to re- tail customers. ABB was the main supplier of power and automation solutions to the new factory. The scope of supply in- cluded transformers, frequency converters, 22 kV switchgear, motor control, drives and computer net- works. The automation system encompasses about 5,000 signals from processes in the factory and is integrated into the company’s overall business sys- tem using ABB’s Manufacturing Exec

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