Gonzalo Ojea

ANFACO-CECOPESCA is a private non-profit business association founded in 1904, whose mission is to represent and defend the sectoral interests of the marine and food cluster, and to provide high value services through its Technology Center with the final goal of boosting the competitiveness of the sector. Located in Vigo (Spain), the Technology Center has modern laboratories and the most advanced technologies for the characterization of new compounds of interest for the food system, the study of the interaction between nutrition and health, research on processing, packaging and food preservation, aquaculture, development of robotics and vision systems, valorization of by-products, and it also contains a Pilot Plant for the scaling of technological solutions at semi-industrial level and an advanced infrastructure for aquaculture research. All of this provides companies in the food sector with improved products and processes through the development of applied research and market-oriented technological innovation.