Carlow company announced as finalist in inaugural BIM Aquatech Business of the Year

Carlow company has been announced as a finalist in inaugural BIM Aquatech Business of the Year.

Aquamonitrix is based in Tullow and led by CEO Mark Bowkett. The local company use technology to drive sustainable seafood farming by providing a revolutionary new analyser for measuring nitrate and nitrite in fresh, saline and waste-water.

The other two finalists are Wicklow-based Aqualicence, a marine and offshore windfarm consultancy firm and Galway-based Konree Innovation, which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to outsmart infestation by sea lice and impacts on production.

The winning company will be announced in Killarney, County Kerry, on Thursday 19th October.

Richard Donnelly, Development and Innovation Director at BIM, commented on the award “Ireland has the potential to be a world leader in aquatech and BIM is driving the sector’s development. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine’s Food Vision 2030 strategy is to 'promote Ireland as a knowledge base for aquaculture technology and research and attract external investment into the sector' - the scale of the opportunity is enormous.”

He added that the three finalists in the first BIM Aquatech Company of the Year are examples of the energy, innovation and talent in the sector in Ireland.