Aquamonitrix based in Co. Carlow has been named as BIM Aquatech Business of the Year. Pictured L to R: Caroline Bocquel, chief executive of BIM, Mark Bowkett, director of Aquamonitrix and Wayne Murphy, director of Hatch Blue.
Aquamonitrix, a spin-out from oil and environmental analysis company TE Laboratories, uses its technology to deliver data on nitrates and nitrites that are toxic to fish, but which were previously impossible to measure in real time. Today the company employs more than 50 people and has customers from as far afield as Norway, the Netherlands and Canada.How to influence people at work and improve your statusLeading up to the award, eight aquatech companies took part in a two-week BIM Innovation Studio, delivered by aquaculture accelerator Hatch Blue and supported by the European Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund.
The award was announced at a conference in Killarney titled “Aquatech – Ireland’s Global Opportunity”, which heard that Ireland’s has the potential to become a global leader in the aquatech field.