NEWS
Sigridur Olgeirsdottir appointed Director of Service
We're happy to announce that Sigríður Olgeirsdóttir has joined us, where she will lead the rapidly growing company's Service Division. For the past nine years, Sigríður was the COO of Íslandsbanki's and responsible for IT [...]
Valka to supply fully automated fillet processing lines to Båtsfjordbruket
The roughly four MEUR contract includes two complete systems for trimming, cutting, distribution and packing of fillets and portions. Båtsfjordbruket, a subsidiary of the Nordic seafood group Insula AS, was established in 1981 and has [...]
Kim Andre appointed Sales manager for the Nordics
Kim André Gabrielsen, formerly of Lerøy Norway Seafoods, has been appointed new sales manager for Nordic countries. Gabrielsen, who served most recently as the director of operations at Norwegian Fish Company, has extensive experience dealing [...]
Optimization and AI to control production based on catch or harvest information
The fish processing industry has experienced dramatic increases in efficiency and profitability through automation. In the last 20 years, efforts have focused on the automation of the pre-processing, primary and secondary processing. Going forward there [...]
Valka to debut Cutter for pre-rigor Salmon at SPG in Brussels
This year, at the Seafood Processing Global in Brussels, Icelandic high-tech company Valka will debut a new version of their water-jet Cutter machine, explicitly designed to cut and remove pin bones from pre-rigor salmon as [...]
Valka and Murman Seafood sign new 10,3 m EUR factory deal
Valka has signed a contract with Murman Seafood Company to design and build a new processing plant in Kola city, south of Murmansk, Russia. The new plant is the first of its kind and [...]
Samherji Chooses Valka to Supply Machinery for New Plant and Upgrades
Samherji Ltd have chosen Valka to supply machinery for their new high-tech production plant in Dalvik and to upgrade their existing ÚA plant in Akureyri. With a total worth of more than 20 million [...]
The future of groundfish processing
Last week Valka had the opportunity of speaking at The Seafood Conference Iceland, the largest platform for the Icelandic seafood industry to meet, discuss and exchange views on a broad level. Our CEO, Helgi Hjalmarson, [...]
Introducing Dual Stream version of the Valka Cutter
World's most efficient water-jet cutter for fish filletsValka ehf is pleased to announce the formal release for a Dual stream version of the Valka Cutter machine with double the capacity of cutting small fish fillets. [...]
Flying start with the ValkaCutter onboard a vessel
Icelandic vessel operator Rammi hf was the Iceland's first to install water-jet cutter onboard its new state-of-the-art Solberg freezer trawler. Much anticipation has been about how it would succeed to operate a high-tech equipment such [...]
Valka featured in KTM case study
KMT, the water-jet specialists company is featuring Valka in a recent case study. In a trip to Iceland the KMT people made an effort to understand how Valka has been utilizing the water-jet technology [...]
Valka graduates to the “elite division” of Icelandic Tech companies
Today Valka was awarded for last years' strong growth and exceeding one billion ISK in revenue by the Federation of Icelandic Industries and Alliance of Icelandic Seed Companies. At the same occasion, Valka was formally [...]