On February 7 of this year, Hampiðjan announced its acquisition of a 75.1% stake in the Indian company Kohinoor. The due diligence process—including operational, tax, and legal reviews as well as assessments of environmental matters, social factors, and governance—has now been fully completed. All conditions related to the acquisition have…
A new and exciting technology was tested in relation to capelin measurements In the latest capelin survey of MFRI´s research vessel Árni Friðriksson. The device is called the FishScanner and is developed by StarOddi and the Marine Research Institute in collaboration with Hampiðjan, and funded by the Technology Development Fund…
Hampidjan hf. has signed an agreement to acquire a 75.1% stake in the Indian net and rope manufacturing company Kohinoor Ropes Pvt. Ltd. Kohinoor's rope and net factory in Selu is approximately 35,000 m². Kohinoor is one of the largest manufacturers of nets and ropes in India. The company employs…
The annual flume tank trip to Hirtshals with Hampiðjan and its partner companies took place at the end of November. The tank is designed specifically to test scale model fishing gears, showing how these perform when towed and what effects variations in towing speed have. The flume tank is routinely…
Flow Gear at IceFish 2024. Hampidjan’s subsidiary, Mørenot Fishery, has developed, applied for a patent, and introduced an innovative solution for bottom trawling, designed to maximize fishing efficiency while reducing environmental impact. This new type of hopper string, called Flow Gear, is constructed from semi-circles made of plastic rather than…
Recently, solar panels were installed on the rooftops of Hampidjan Baltic and Vonin Lithuania buildings, Hampidjan's subsidiaries in the city of Šiauliai, Lithuania. These large buildings have a combined roof area of approximately 31,500 square meters. The goal is to generate electricity for the companies' operations, with the solar panels…
Morenot Iceland, a subsidiary of Hampidjan, has now been merged with Hampidjan Iceland. This merger is an important step towards streamlining operations, achieving operational efficiency, and expanding Hampidjan Iceland's product and service offerings in relation to fishing supplies, thereby better meeting the needs of the Icelandic fishing industry. Morenot Iceland…
Hampiðjan received the Icelandic Fisheries Awards for the best new product presented at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition/IceFish 2024 in Fífan, Kópavogur. The award was for a new DynIce Optical Data Cable Winch specifically designed for the DynIce Optical Data fiber-optic cable, and has been in development in recent months. Hjörtur…
The new netloft of Cosmos Trawl, a subsidiary of Hampiðjan, was officially inaugurated today, Thursday, September 5, in Skagen, Denmark. The building marks a significant milestone in the company's operations, as it increases the capacity to review and repair multiple trawls simultaneously, with the number of trawl repair tracks increasing…
The annual trip organized by Hampidjan Iceland to the flume tank in Hirtshals, Denmark, will take place from November 26-29. The tank trips have been very popular, as they provide participants with a unique opportunity to increase their knowledge and experience how different fishing gear, both bottom and pelagic trawls,…
Hampidjan hf. has signed a purchase agreement for all shares in the Norwegian company FiiZK Protection AS, which is a leader in the production and sale of salmon lice skirts for the aquaculture sector and has about 80% market share of salmon lice skirts in Norway. Hampidjan hf. has signed…
In 1934 Guðmundur S. Guðmundsson, engineer and foreman at engineering company Héðinn, took the initiative and brought together a dozen individuals to establish a company to manufacture twine and netting from hemp fibres. The primary reason for this was a shortage of materials for fishing gears. The founders mostly had…
Cosmos Trawl is set to bolster its operations with the introduction of a new netloft facility in Denmark. The company aims to enhance its production and repair capabilities and enhance the capability to service ships arriving at the port of Skagen, renowned as one of the largest pelagic ports in…
Hampidjan Group, with all its subsidiaries, is a key participant in a project on circular product design that has achieved recognition as it is being named a finalist in the Aquaculture Awards 2024. The project Circular Fish Farming Nets (CFFN), funded by the Norwegian Retailers Recycling Fund, is a collaboration…
An order has been confirmed for a pair of fully controllable doors from Thyborøn for fishing company Gjögur, which operates pelagic vessel Hákon ThH-250. Gjögur’s new Hákon is under construction at Karstensens Skibsværft in Skagen and is due to be delivered in mid-2024. This is a pair of 12 square…
Hampiðjan’s Spanish subsidiary, TorNet, is moving its activities to new premises in the port area of Las Palmas. The new building is roughly the same size as the company has been in since 2010, at 1700 m². It is a more suitable building for the company’s activities, with everything in…
Hampiðjan’s annual flume tank trip to Hirtshals in Denmark took place at the end of November. This is where skippers, mates, fleet managers, fishing gear technologists and experts have an opportunity to familiarise themselves with the latest in fishing gear development from Hampiðjan and its partner companies. Participation was highly…
Publication of Prospectus and Hampiðjan‘s Public Offering 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.…
Hampiðjan and CEO Hjörtur Erlendsson yesterday received the business award from trade publications Frjáls Verslun and Viðskiptablaðið, and this is the most prestigious award of its kind to be presented in Iceland, awarded at the end of each year. The award was presented by minister of finance Bjarni Benediktsson and…
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. In the meantime, there had been a couple of visits to the Hirtshals…
Hampiðjan’s flume tank sessions in Hirtshals, testing and demonstrating different fishing gears, are a tradition that has grown over the last few decades. This year there will be a session in November, after a two-year break due to Covid. Participants will travel from Iceland on 29th November, returning on 3rd…
Recycled trawl gear used in electric car production Hampiðjan has placed a strong emphasis on the collection and grading of fishing gear, and ensuring that this is recycled. Recycling routes have now been established for all of the materials used in fishing gears, with the exception of ropes that are…
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. Hróðmar Ingi has qualifications in business and management from the Technical University of Iceland and holds Class…
Hampiðjan wholeheartedly condemns the Russian aggression in Ukraine and its ongoing action in the invasion of a democratic sovereign state. Hampiðjan has systematically withdrawn from doing business with Russian fishing companies, has already ended the majority of such activities, exports no products to Russia, and is in this way contributing…
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. The Order of the Falcon is…
Hampiðjan played a central role at the industry awards, a key part of the IceFish exhibition which took place last week in Kópavogur. The company took the award for the Best New Product Launched at the Exhibition. Guðmundur Gunnarsson, who retired recently after a fifty-year career with Hampiðjan, received the…
‘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. These events are also a great place to introduce innovations. At this exhibition we are presenting the new…
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. Underwater footage of these popular demersal trawls highlighted a number of weaknesses at the quarters of the wings which needed to…
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. Georg is from Jena in Germany, and came to Iceland in 2006 as an Erasmus Programme…
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. This trip’s catch was a green…
‘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. The new shallow purse seine worked extremely well and performed exactly as expected,’ said Bergur Einarsson, skipper of pelagic…
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…
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. These are Type 32 Bluestream doors, and these can be controlled from the wheelhouse. The control system for the doors…
Owners of 110 fishing vessels around the world have bought DynIce sounder cable since 2015. That was the year when some major changes were made to the copper jacket around the copper wire at the centre of the cable, but in other respects developments have been in perfecting production processes.…
Danish fishing gear company Cosmos Trawl, part of the Hampiðjan Group, has designed and developed a new selectivity device that looks very promising. The device was developed and designed in co-operation with Nordsøtrawl, the fishing gear workshop of Cosmos Trawl in Thyborøn. Ten of these Excluders have been supplied to…
‘This machine is pure genius. It went like a dream and the surprise was how quickly it was all done,’ said skipper Friðleifur Einarsson of Brim’s fresher trawler Helga María, and he was referring to Hampiðjan’s new mobile wire tensioning unit which is used to spool warps onto winch drums…
Over the last few years Hampiðjan has systematically worked on a number of aspects of environmental issues and the basis of this goes back to the company setting out its environmental policy. This policy was formally accepted by the board in the autumn of last year. A significant milestone in…
‘I’m very happy with the new blue whiting trawl. My feeling is that it fishes better than other gears I’ve tried, and the main reason is that the belly is designed so that fish make their way more quickly down to the codend,’ said Albert Sveinsson, skipper of Brim’s pelagic…
Research vessel Kaimei, operated by Jamstec (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), has set a record by drilling into the seabed at a greater depth than has even been done before. This was achieved with the use of a specialised drill that was lowered to a depth of 8…
Skipper Tómas Kárason of Beitir NK-123 ‘I’m very satisfied with this new trawl. There’s virtually no gilled fish in the eight-panel belly and all the fish we see in the wheelhouse on the sounder makes its way back to the codend. We’re very satisfied with the belly arrangement. It appears…
Hampiðjan congratulates Síldarvinnslan and the crew of Börkur NK-122 on taking delivery of this high-tech purser/trawler, and wishes company and crew a safe, prosperous and successful future.
‘We have been very satisfied with the DynIce warps from Hampiðjan ever since we first had a set in 2007. These warps have performed extremely well in pelagic trawling over the years and they last an average of seven years, which is excellent, taking into account that we get a…
The first 100% recyclable heavy lift sling for the offshore and onshore construction market. Hampidjan Offshore are proud to announce the launch of TERRA slings. Reducing waste and repurposing materials is key in managing the industries impact upon the environment and creating a future proof sustainable business model. During the last two…
The Association of Business Managers and Economists (FVH) each year holds an event known as the Expertise Day, which is a blend of a conference and an awards ceremony. This is where the selection takes place for the business manager or the economist of the year, along with the Expertise…
Hampiðjan congratulates Samherji and the crew of the new Vilhelm Thorsteinsson EA-11 on the delivery of this magnificent high-tech purse seiner/pelagic trawler, and we wish them every success in the future.
Norwegian pelagic vessel Rav docked in Norðfjörður on Monday last week, with a badly damaged capelin purse seine. The purse seine was fouled in the net bin while shooting away, with the result that whole panels were ripped out. The skipper and crew immediately saw that this would be a…
Back in 1994, Hampidjan sold its first super-rope to the oil industry, replacing a steel wire on a seismic vessel operated by PGS (Petroleum Geo-Services). In the years to follow, the oil industry has become an increasingly important segment of Hampidjan‘s operations, leading to the development of a number of…
There are Icelanders involved in fisheries all around the world. Most recently the four officers on board factory trawler Gloria have been in touch. This is one of three factory trawlers operated by Omani fishing company Al Wusta Fisheries Industries. Gloria’s skippers are Ásgeir Gíslason and Hafsteinn Stefánsson. In the…
Hampiðjan’s fishing gear development manager Guðmundur Gunnarsson recently retired after a 50-year career with the company during which he has been involved in producing fishing gear and in numerous developments, but there’s no doubt he is best known for designing the Gloría pelagic trawl, which was a significant innovation at…
Pelagic vessel Sigurður docked in its home port in the Westman Islands last week for the first time since sailing on 24th July. They have been fishing all summer for herring and mackerel, with catches landed at the Ísfélag factory in Thórshöfn. Skipper Hörður Már Guðmundsson is very satisfied with…
Fishing companies are already gearing up for blue whiting in the new year. Last year, this fishery began in January, as insufficient capelin had been located to allocate a quota. Now there are hopes that there will be more capelin to be found, and that blue whiting can wait until…
Cuxhaven company DFFU’s factory trawler Cuxhaven NC-100 arrived from Germany on 21st September and docked at the Skarfabakki quayside outside Hampiðjan’s net loft, bringing with it three drums of new trawl warp as deck cargo. The drums of wire were craned ashore and the warps were run through Hampiðjan’s tensioning…
Brim’s fresher trawler Viðey docked in Reykjavík this week with 180 tonnes on board after a five-day trip to Westfjords fishing grounds. This was the first full trip after the installation of a third winch, enabling Viðey to tow two trawls side-by-side. ‘Previously we had a Jagger 88.8LW groundfish trawl…
‘Let’s say that catches have been pretty good since the beginning of July. We’ve been landing 25 to 35 tonnes of shrimp per trip and have mostly been on the back leading eastwards from the Skagafjörður Deeps. We’re happy with the fishing gear, and the development that began four years…
The beach clean-up organised by Hampiðjan, the company’s staff association and the Blue Army took place yesterday on the 29th August, with a 50-strong team of the company’s staff and family members joining in the annual event. The clean-up concentrated on the shoreline east of the Selvogur lighthouse and we…
‘These seine nets are pure genius, plus there has been heavy fishing all summer,’ said Stefán Egilsson, skipper of Thingeyri seine netter Egill. He is one of a number of Westfjords fishermen who have every reason to be satisfied with the seine nets supplied by Hampiðjan in Ísafjörður, refined by…
Fresher trawler Akurey has completed its second trip since a refit in which a third trawl winch and an additional set of sweepline winches were installed on board. This enables the trawler to tow a pair of trawls, and the equipment works perfectly. The installation of the twin-rig setup was…
‘I’m very satisfied, and if anything, the results are beyond anything I had expected. Catch quality is better and the crew are quicker hauling and shooting than before. There’s hardly anything to do back aft at the ramp and the crew could hardly be happier,’ said Birgir Thór Sverrisson, skipper…
A co-operation agreement on clearing waste from Iceland’s beaches has been struck between Hampiðjan and the Blue Army. Hampiðjan will provide support worth ISK 2.40 million annually to the Blue Army in monthly contributions. Blue Army founder Tómas J. Knútsson has welcomed the agreement, commenting that Hampiðjan’s contribution will ensure…
Jónas Thór Friðriksson has been appointed sales manager for Hampiðjan’s ropes and netting. He joins Hampiðjan after 20 years as sales manager of Ísfell’s trawl gear division, and his career began at Westman Islands company Netagerðin Ingólfur, where he trained in fishing gear technology and worked for 14 years. ‘I’m…
Hampiðjan’s magnificent new netloft in Neskaupstaður where work started on 23rd January this year is already a hive of activity. Manager Jón Einar Marteinsson is delighted both with the new facilities and with work there getting off to such a strong start. The new premises are a huge improvement over…
Einar Pétur Bjargmundsson has been appointed Hampiðjan Ísland’s fishing gear sales manager, working alongside skipper Kristinn Gestsson and master fishing gear technologist Magnús Guðlaugsson. Einar trained as an engineer and thirty years ago he joined fishing company Haraldur Böðvarsson hf, which subsequently merged with Grandi hf to form HB Grandi…
‘It might sound like a cliché, but the fact is that this new building represents a huge improvement. So for us, this is a complete transformation of our working facilities,’ said master fishing gear technologist Jón Einar Marteinsson who manages Hampiðjan’s fishing gear division in Neskaupstaður. The magnificent new net…
Two years ago we developed a new variety of super-rope under the Prima brand, and this has been welcomed by our customers as its popularity has grown rapidly. The rope is produced using high-strength fibres from DSM, which also produced the Dyneema fibres that are at the heart of Hampiðjan’s…
Flume tank trips becoming increasingly important, according to Hampiðjan’s Jón Oddur Davíðsson, commenting on the recent annual trip to Hirtshals ‘There were 45 of us this time, with guests from Ireland, Russia and Portugal, as well as from Iceland. The tank visit went extremely well, with a number of fishing…
Hampiðjan’s catalogue of products for fishing and fishing gear production has never been broader than it is today, with many new products that have been developed in recent months. The product list includes the entire Hampiðjan range of demersal and pelagic trawls, as well as codends, purse seines and wire…
Hampiðjan Iceland's annual gathering at the North Sea Centre’s flume tank in Hirtshals is approaching fast. The trip takes place from 26th to 30th November and according to Managing Director Jón Oddur Davíðsson, this is an interesting coincidence as it marks precisely 40 years since the company organised its first…
A new version of the 88.40 metre Bacalao trawl that incorporates some key innovations has been performing well recently. Among those who have long experience of the Bacalao trawl are the skippers of Viðey, the newest fresher trawler operated from Reykjavík by fishing company Brim, so it seemed right to…
‘This was our first tow with the new trawl and we certainly didn’t get off to a bad start. The flow of fish into the gear was so rapid that we only managed to tow for an hour, and when we hauled there were 800 tonnes in there,’ said Gísli…
This year Hampiðjan has concluded the acquisition of the entire shareholding of the daughter company Fjarðanet. The background to the acquisition is to establish all of Hampiðjan’s activities in Iceland into a single operation. Fjarðanet becomes Hampiðjan Iceland and those aspects of Hampidjan’s business relating to fishing gear production and…
‘The trip went very well and I reckon we can be sure that everyone was satisfied with how it worked out. The trawls from Hampiðjan and its Fjarðanet subsidiary were in the spotlight during the three days we spent at the flume tank and there was agreement that it’s important…
A new semi-pelagic trawl door design from Danish producer Thyborøn Trawldoor looks highly promising. The new Bluestream Type 23 doors have been developed based on the company’s experience with its Type 14 doors. These powerful doors are predicted to result in significant fuel savings when demersal fishing, with no drop…
‘I’m very satisfied with the results after switching to the Hemmer demersal trawl. My experience with the Seastar trawl had been very good, and we started with one Seastar and one Hemmer trawl on board when the new trawler was delivered. We quickly saw that the Hemmer trawl needed much…
Hampiðjan will be running its annual presentation of its own products as well as those of its partner companies at the North Sea Centre’s flume tank in Hirtshals from 28th to 30th of November this year. This trip has become a regular event in the company’s calendar and the aim…
‘This all worked out very well. The Russian crew were quick to get to grips with the fishing gear. My role was to assist in familiarising the crew with the gear and that went without a hitch. As usual, the doors needed some adjustment, but once that had been done…
Merkilegur áfangi var í sögu Fjarðanets í gær en þá var fyrsta skóflustungan tekin að nýju netaverkstæði fyrirtækisins í Neskaupstað. Það voru þeir Jón Einar Marteinsson, framkvæmdastjóri Fjarðanets, Steindór Björnsson og Jón Bjarnason, sem eru fyrrum verkstjórar hjá Fjarðaneti og Netagerð Friðriks Vilhjálmssonar í Neskaupstað, sem tóku fyrstu skóflustunguna. Báðir…
The sale to the Hampiðjan Group has been concluded of Canadian fishing gear supplier North Atlantic Marine Services & Supply (NAMSS). The acquisition has been made by Hampiðjan’s Canadian subsidiary Hampidjan Canada, and this significantly strengthens the company’s position on the Canadian east coast. According to Hampiðjan CEO Hjörtur Erlendsson,…
That’s the message sent by Hampiðjan fishing gear designer Einar Skaftason at the Innovation Norway conference held in Bergen 6-8th March. At the conference he described the pioneering fishing for pearlside and lantern fish that had been carried out, and for which Hampiðjan developed fishing gear at the outset. ‘From…
Every trawler crew knows the work that goes into spooling new warps onto the winch drums. Sometimes it can take days before the warps to sit comfortably under tension and there’s rarely a second chance to get things right. The addition of a warp tensioning machine to the Hampiðjan armoury…
Creditinfo yesterday presented Hampiðjan with an award specifically for innovation by an established company. These awards are Creditinfo’s most prominent commendations and are presented every year at a special ceremony held in the Harpa concert and conference centre. This recognition is highly appreciated and we see this as an encouragement…
‘As always, the trip was very successful and those taking part were satisfied with the organisation, as well as with everything they got to see and hear. There’s always a satisfaction for us to meet these people and get to know them better,’ said Hampiðjan’s sales and marketing manager Jón…
Kristinn Gestsson, until recently skipper of HB Grandi’s freezer trawler Therney, has joined Hampiðjan’s fishing gear division in a sales position. After his years in command of Therney, recently sold to South Africa, he says that with this new role he looks forward to taking on an opportunity to maintain…
Hampiðjan’s marketing and IT manager Jón Oddur Davíðsson has been appointed sales and marketing director of the company’s fishing gear division. He is no newcomer to Hampiðjan, and worked in the company’s ropes and netting sales department from 1987 to 1990, and came back in 1999 to manage its technical…
New netting from Hampiðjan aimed at the market for trawl gear offers a host of advantages, and reports from trawler skippers who have been testing the new Advant netting have been positive. Bjarni Hjálmarsson who skippers factory trawler Blængur said that he has been testing a trawl made in the…
Hampiðjan sends fishing company Samherji and the crew of Björg EA-7 congratulations on the delivery of the magnificent new trawler, and to wish them every success in the future.
Hampiðjan’s annual visit to the flume tank at the North Sea Center in Hirtshals to present the company’s fishing gear will take place from the 28th to the 2nd of December. In addition to the practical fishing gear sessions, guests will also have the opportunity to attend presentations on the…
Hampiðjan would like to send fishing company Útgerðarfélag Akureyringa and the crew of Kaldbakur EA-1 congratulations on the delivery of this magnificent new trawler, and to wish them every success in the future.
Hampiðjan would like to send fishing company Samherji and the crew of Björgúlfur EA-312 congratulations on the delivery of this magnificent new trawler, and to wish them every success in the future.
‘We’re on the way to Greenland,’ said Jón Axelsson, skipper of pelagic vessel Álsey VE-2 after landing 450 tonnes of large, top-quality mackerel in Thórshöfn last week. ‘We caught this in only six hours fishing near the Westmann Islands.’ ‘The new 1440 metre Gloria XW self-spreading trawl with 60 metre…
Hampiðjan technical adviser Sæmundur Árnason has spent three weeks at sea on board catcher-processor Mekhanik Kovtun to keep a close eye on the gear during the trawler’s first trip with a new set of gear for targeting mackerel. The trawler is owned by Murmansk Trawl Fleet PJSC and was built…
Trawler skipper Sæmundur Árnason has joined Hampiðjan’s fishing gear division. Married with three children, Sæmundur comes from Ólafsfjörður and has many years of experience as skipper and mate of trawlers, which has given him a great deal of insight into the use of both demersal and pelagic trawl gear. Now…
Tests The ongoing co-operation between the Institute of Marine Research, HB Grandi and Hampiðjan into the effectiveness of T90 codends rigged on QuickLines continued this spring. A codend in shrimp mesh sizes was assessed in the flume tank in Canada in association with the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial…
This week marks exactly ten years since trawler Vestmannaey was rigged with DynIce Warps to replace conventional steel wire warps. Skipper Birgir Thór Sverrisson says that the experience of using these warps has been outstandingly good, and while he remains in command, there is no chance that these will be…
Greenlandic pelagic vessel Qavak is now on its fourth trip on fishing grounds off Snæfellsnes. Its crew of fourteen is partly Icelandic, including skipper Gylfi Viðar Guðmundsson, who is one of the owners of Huginn VE-55 and skipper opposite Guðmundur Huginn Guðmundsson. Qavak is operated by Greenlandic company Arctic Prime…
Pelagic vessel Heimaey is now on its way to fishing grounds off Reykjanes after discharging 2000 tonnes of capelin at Thórshöfn yesterday and today. According to skipper Ólafur Einarsson, the fish were caught around 20 nautical miles west of the Westmann Islands. Heimaey made headlines recently after taking a giant…
‘We were the first to try this codend out for Hampiðjan and it worked so well that we have used only T90 codends for mackerel and herring fishing over the last few years,’ said Albert Sveinsson, skipper of HB Grandi’s pelagic vessel Víkingur. He said that initially the T90 codend…
Hampiðjan has now opened a sales office in Murmansk, with Sergei Kiselev appointed to manage sales of fishing gear from Hampiðjan and other companies within the group to Russian fishing companies, as well as handling servicing. The new office is situated in a prime location in the Murmansk Trawl Fleet…
Danish pelagic vessel Ruth docked in the Faroes at the end of last week with 2600 tonnes of mackerel valued at DKK20 million on board. This is the result of Ruth’s first trip this year, and since it was delivered new in March last year, it has caught 27,000 tonnes…
Colligo Marine is a big believer in using Hampidjan’s Dyneema products in the recreational marine industry. For over ten years now we have been using Dyneema for standing rigging and, more recently, for torsional cables. We have developed a complete line of hardware designed specifically for Hampidjan’s Dynice Dux and Furl cables.…
A new 800 square metre purse seine hotel was opened a few days ago by Cosmos Trawl, Hampiðjan’s Danish daughter company. It has space for eight of the largest purse seines and practically the entire space has been booked for the next ten years. ‘This is the future. Shipowners want to…
Over the last few years Hampiðjan has been continuing the development of its DynIce Warps by incorporating electric cables into the company’s new Power Warps. The core of the warp contains an armoured co-axial cable that can act as a power supply or be used to carry signals, and around…
‘Some people thought we were mad hanging expensive fishing gear on the ends of pieces of rope.’ It’s ten years this month since Guðmundur Huginn Guðmundsson, skipper of Huginn VE 55, took delivery of 2 x 730 metres of 36mm DynIce Warps and tried them out fishing on the surface…
‘This is a vital piece of equipment and I don’t understand how we managed before,’ said Jón Valgeirsson, skipper of Westmann Islands trawler Bergey VE 544. ‘We’ve taken new warps on board hundreds of time before, but this is the first time they have been spooled exactly right onto the…
‘There has been rapid progress on this since Danish crew arrived in the Islands and started erecting the steel frame of the building. The frame is up now and the roof is on, but there is still plenty more that needs to be done. However, the building should be ready…
Hampiðjan’s Westmann Islands branch opened in March this year and began trading in April, with everything required for maintaining fishing gear, as well as a product range that includes lifting equipment, protective gear and survival suits. ‘We aim to begin work on the net loft extension in two to three…
Trawl trials on redfish with a T90 codend supplied by Fjardanet in Akureyri, which is part of the Hampidjan Group, have already produced promising results. The codend appears to filter out small redfish in significant amounts and the results look to be similar to those obtained by the Marine Research…
‘The skipper reports that the new 3072 metre Gloria redfish trawl works like a dream, especially on dispersed fish, and he was fishing better than others in the same area. The crew were surprised at how easy it turned out to be to handle this very large gear in bad…
There is a constant demand for lightweight, cost-effective solutions in the offshore oil and gas sector, according to Davíd Waage, sales and marketing director at Hampidjan’s offshore and seismic division. ‘There’s a relentless pursuit of opportunities in deeper water and being able to mobilise sophisticated, lightweight equipment is crucial in…
Hampiðjan’s staff have been working through the many enquiries they received during the company’s attendance at the International Seafood Exposition in Brussels from 26th to 28th of April. According to sales and marketing director Haraldur Árnason, it was a good exhibition and taking part in it was a worthwhile exercise…
New pelagic vessel Ruth HG-264 was delivered recently to owners Rederiet Ruth in Hirtshals, Denmark. The purser-trawler is 87.80 metres overall with a 16.60 metre beam and was built at the Karstensens Shipyard in Skagen, the first of its kind completed with three winches to tow twin trawl gear. Fishing…
Earlier this month work began at Hampidjan’s new netloft in the Westmann Islands. The workshop is located at Kleifar 6, and the building also includes a shop. At present the building has a 400 square metre floor space, but once this coming summer’s expansion has been concluded, it will expand…
Hampiðjan’s annual visit to the flume tank at the North Sea Center in Hirtshals to present he company’s fishing gear will take place from the 6th to the 9th of December. In addition to the practical fishing gear sessions, guests will also have the opportunity to attend presentations on the…
Hampidjan is taking part in the Seafood Expo North America and Seafood Processing North America event taking place in Boston from the 6th to 8th of March, where we will be presenting our activities and products. According to marketing and sales manager Guðbjartur Thórarinsson, Hampidjan will be on Stand 2065…
Sigurgeir Pétursson, skipper of factory trawler Tai An, has another successful trip behind him in the Southern Ocean after docking last week at Ushuaia, Argentina’s most southerly port after 56 days at sea. The ungutted catch weight for the trip was 7100 tonnes. This was reported in Icelandic daily newspaper…
The day before Christmas Eve saw the arrival of a magnificent new vessel as an addition to the Síldarvinnslan fleet as the new Beitir NK-123 arrived at its new home port in Neskaupstadur. Beitir was open to the public on Sunday 27th of December. The new Beitir was built at…
The latest fishing gear from Hampidjan ‘HB Grandi’s magnificent new pelagic vessel, Víkingur, which docked in Iceland before Christmas, has everything that Hampidjan can offer on board,’ said Hampidjan’s sales and marketing director Haraldur Árnason. Three Gloria trawls and codends The fishing gear package delivered to Víkingur includes a Gloria…
‘We had an unusually large group this time with around 70 guests from ten countries. It’s clear that there is plenty of interest in Hampidjan’s products and the trip was highly successful,’ said Haraldur Árnason, the company’s sales and marketing manager. Staff from the design and fishing gear departments organised…
According to research into T90 codends for cod and QuickLine rigging According to research carried out by fishery scientist Haraldur Einarsson into the selectivity of T90 codends rigged using Hampidjan’s Quicklines, the advantages are considerable when compared to conventional two-panel codends. The trials were conducted recently on board Helga María…
‘We have used Hampidjan’s DynIce warps since 2009 and I can say that we have more experience than anyone in using these. It has been conclusively shown that these warps are a better option in financial terms than wire, and that’s just one of the advantages,’ said trawler skipper Sigurgeir…
We can say that the crew of Sturlaugur H. Bödvarsson were rewarded with a feast on board recently when Hampidjan’s fishing gear development manager Gudmundur Gunnarsson paid them a visit before the trawler sailed from Reykjavík, bringing with him a buffet of cakes for the crew. The reason for the…
Hampidjan will be running its customary annual trip to the flume tank at the North Sea Centre in Hirtshals between the 9th and 11th of December. This has been a high point of the Hampidjan calendar for many years. In addition to presentations of how fishing gears function under realistic…
Successful Danfish exhibition in Aalborg ‘We’re very satisfied with the exhibition, and as far as I’m concerned, this has been the best one yet. An estimated 14,000 people attended this year and a quarter of those came from other countries. There was plenty of interest in our products , not…
Proud to announce that Hampidjan has been selected as the only Icelandic representative in the new First North 25 stock index. Ideal opportunity for a quick photo of the blooming Orkidea´s gift we received from Nasdaq Iceland and of course surrounded by the supporters of Pink Ribbon today.Thanks Nasdaq Iceland…
A new video is now online that clearly demonstrates the advantages of using DynIce Data sounder cable compared to conventional steel cable. This informative video can be seen here below. It lasts three minutes and makes some interesting viewing.
Hampidjan partner companies Cosmos Trawl and Nordsø Trawl are both among participants in this year’s Danfish International fisheries exhibition taking place in Aalborg, presenting their services and a number of Hampidjan’s innovations. Danfish takes place from the 7th to the 9th of October with around three hundred companies and institutions…
DynIce Warps video now online A video is now available showing in an informal and clear way just where the advantages of DynIce Warps lie in comparison to conventional trawl warps. The video is below and despite being only five minutes long, it makes some interesting viewing.
Mekhanik S Agapov, the magnificent new pelagic vessel owned by Russian fishing company Robinzon, has shown some outstanding results recently fishing for mackerel in international waters with a new Gloría HS1600 trawl from Hampidjan. The ship was completed in 2014 and there’s nothing small about its 115 metre overall length…
A magnificent new net loft has been built at Thyborøn in Denmark and was formally opened last week with guests invited to see look over the new building. The new Nordsø Trawl net loft measures 2600 square metres, or which 200 square metres are used for office space. Hampidjan’s wholly-owned…
Hampidjan’s new design Gloria pelagic trawls have been successfully catching mackerel. The latest version is the 1760-4 Wide and this was used by four pelagic vessels last year. It didn’t take long for the news to spread and this summer three more pelagic vessels have been using this trawl, plus…
Thyborøn’s adjustable doors A new type of trawl door from Thyborøn in Denmark is now in use in Iceland and Greenland. These T20 Flipper doors are an innovation in that they can be adjusted to reduce the surface area by as much as 17% from the maximum available area by…
Guðbjartur Thórarinsson and Einar Skaftason have recently joined Hampidjan in management roles. Einar is responsible for development of new trawl gear and Guðbjartur takes over as the sales and marketing director for of the company’s marine and service division. Einar is 39, married with one daughter. He trained as a skipper…
’HB Grandi’s new multi-role pelagic vessel, Venus, has been fitted out with the most advanced fishing gear technology we have to offer at Hampidjan,’ said Haraldur Árnason, the company’s sales and marketing director. ’The fishing gear supplied to Venus include a Gloria 2048m Ellipse trawl that is highly suitable for…
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