Oct 12th, 2020  -  iCell Sustainable Nutrition, Hong Kong, (iCell) will begin On-Site pilot work for a 1,000mt Eel Aquaculture project to be located in the Northeast USA.

    

iCell has been working with various sites in the USA which need solutions to their food process water treatment issues – and is also working with investors for capex funding needed for projects to solve these water issues and at the same time, building integrated seafood aquaculture at these same sites.   This month iCell moves one step closer. 

     

iCell’s lead project is slated for the northeast USA (the city & state is not yet being publicly identified) and will support the water treatment needs of multiple, existing seafood processors, providing the capacity for the processors to increase throughput which is currently limited by water treatment costs and water effluent regulations. 

  

Although iCell currently operates three large scale commercial facilities in Asia, cleaning water and producing single cell proteins, the COVID19 travel restrictions mean that investors and project developers/approvers cannot visit the existing iCell sites – so iCell is establishing a mobile pilot processing unit in the USA.   The unit will replicate the iCell protein production, recovery, and water treatment processes.  Validating the inputs and outputs at the local site is key before final scoping.   iCell CEO Mark Rottmann indicates “Local authorities and site partners simply want to see it in action with their own eyes before the go ahead on approvals”.    

A third party, environmental engineering firm has been selected to execute the work, with completion expected in November at which point regulators can sign off on the water purity and recycle capability generated by the process.   The unit is already scheduled to be used at additional sites following the work completion in New England, USA.  

Contact:   Sherry YuanLi 
info@icellsustainable.com