Copper alloy nets used manufacturing for salmon farming cages. (Photo: Codelco)
(CHILE, 9/19/2011)
EcoSea Farming SA has announced the signing of a contract with Salmones Humboldt to provide the firm with copper alloy nets for 12 cage rafts, which will be installed in the centres Gacitúa and Isla Aulín, in the Region of Los Lagos.
After this operation, the salmon firm will have 16 Aqualine branded circular cage rafts, which are 40 metres in diameter, with EcoSea copper alloy nets, said the general manager of the supplier company, Rodrigo Sanchez.
These cages are highly resistant and are made up of two tubes, which are 400 mm each and have galvanized steel brackets.