Discoveries 

 
SELCO
There isn't a better example available of our long history in innovation than the SELCO products. Over 20 years ago our Managing Director, Philippe Léger, revolutionized the then-emerging aquaculture industry by making stable emulsions and innovative formulations that eventually resulted in the development of these legendary SELCO (Self-Emulsifying Concentrates) products, which facilitated numerous hatchery operations and nutritional studies across the world. First commercialized by "Artemia Systems NV", which later became INVE Aquaculture, these products are nowadays still viewed as a benchmark are nowadays still viewed as the benchmark for enrichments.

Co-feeding
Over 15 years ago, INVE Aquaculture was the first to commercialize the concept of feeding live feed (Artemia, rotifers) together with dry diets. Like all our innovations, the A1 and W3 concept/products were developed upon market request. They were introduced not long after the SELCOs and provided the first dry feeds for the larvae. These old-timer products have since been discontinued. The current generation of these products is incorporated in the O.range master feed line, more specifically O.range Start and O.range Wean. 

AF and Specialty Artemia cysts
When the aquaculture business started its industrialization, Artemia cysts were not being differentiated, nor was there any difference made in the cysts that were used in the field. The quality, size, and most importantly the nutritional value varied significantly from one cyst to another. It was thanks to research conducted by INVE Aquaculture that the commercialized Artemia complied with strict specifications in terms of size and nutritional values. This allowed hatchery owners to acquire only the cysts that were of the best use for their specific purpose. It was then, for example, that it became possible to avoid the use of rotifers for certain species as the AF and Specialty cysts were, and still are today, products available off the shelf, in sufficient quantity and consistent quality.

SELCO, part II: Culture Selco and DHA Protein Selco
Before these products came to market, the production of rotifers was only possible using baker yeast or live algae. This used to be an expensive, technically difficult process that resulted in sometimes very low production outputs. It was so limiting that it represented an important bottle neck to develop the production of some species like the Gilthead sea bream, which needs massive quantities of rotifers for its initial feeding. The Culture Selco represented the alternative for this issue, it was the first dry diet for rotifers that was readily available off the shelf. Combined with the introduction of DHA Protein Selco, it offered the first reliable production system with high quality, reliable nutritional standards.

Partial Artemia substitution 
During the last decade the availability of Artemia cysts has become more and more of an issue, to the point that during certain times there are not enough cysts available to supply the whole hatchery market with. Around 10 years ago, INVE Aquaculture realised this and was the first on the market to develop a number of specific diets (for example the Proton diet) that aimed at reducing the Artemia consumption whilst maintaining the output quality of the fry. Today, these diets have been completely reformulated in order to meet the current market conditions and are available as part of the O.range line.

SEP-Art 
In 2009, INVE Aquaculture released yet another truly innovating product on the market. The SEP-Art technology is unique in the sense that it is the first type of Artemia cyst on the market which offers a perfect separation of the nauplii without the use of chemicals. SEP-Art is not a type of new cyst, but consists of the addition of a unique coating to the cysts, which together with the use of either the SEPARATOR for low volumes, or the CysTM for high volumes, offers the user an easy, quick and cost efficient way of hatching Artemia nauplii. Additionally, the cysts make the double sieve technique obsolete, which results in a lower stress level and subsequently more vital en easier to enrich nauplii.

S.tream
This pioneering product represents a consistent and semi-continuous culture system avoiding the costly and time consuming practices that are inevitably linked with batch system management. S.tream is relying on a simple concept that has its origin in flow-through systems. It avoids the use of expensive and complex equipments and guarantees a long lasting, high density and very clean rotifer culture.

 
Sanocare ACE
Developed in the late 1990's, Sanocare ACE (then marketed as Sanocare HC) was the first product in the aquaculture industry able to reduce the development and transfer of putative pathogens associated with live food cultures. It is an easy-to-use, self-emulsifying product that keeps bacterial levels in the Artemia hatching water at a very low level. The use of it reduces the Vibrio load by 10,000 up to 100,000 times. 

Sanolife range
A range of probiotic products, truly unique because of two reasons: 1) their extremely high Bacillus concentration, and 2) because they were the first probiotic products that were developed specifically for aquaculture applications (respectively fish or shrimp, hatcheries or farms).

Sanocare SURE
Introduced in 2010, this was the first commercial product based on natural ingredients that effectively cleans rotifers without negatively affecting their survival, and with positive effects on the survival rate of the fish larvae.

Sanolife ALG and GWS
The first dry mixtures on the market substituting live algae or algal pastes as greenwater products in marine fish hatcheries.