The Icelandic Marine and Fresh Water Research Institute oversees the councelling for harvesting seaweed around Iceland. Research is ongoing as described in a report issued in 2019.
We wish you Merry Christmas, we hope the coming year will be prosperous. Remember to waste none and use your feet for travel when possible.
The Thorverk factory belongs to the 2.2% of Icelandic companies that are considered showing outstanding performance. This merit is recieved as a token for shown environmental, safety and economic proficiency.
Resistant chemicals and banned substances are decreasing in the sea around Iceland. Ten institutes participate in monitoring these in an international cooperation. The results show that some biotoxins have decreased during the last decades.
We strive to do better in environmental matters. Plastic is accumulating in the sea. So we avoid using plastic as much as possible. Most of the plastic used in Thorverk are wrappings around paperbags on pallets that are exported. And now we annouce that the wrappings are made of BioZ.
Thorverk strives to impact the natural environment as little as possible. Though geothermal heat is used in the drying process, both the harvesters and collecting ship use diesel engines for their propellers. Therefore a specific joint effort was made on June 9 this spring to plant trees and attempt to sequestrate last year's carbon emissions.
Sometimes the weather is simply too good to waste the whole day on work. When temperatures rise up to 20°C, the sun is shining and the wind is still we simply have to celebrate.
Every spring Thorverk welcomes many new members for summer jobs. Often they have some connection to the local residents.
After a thorough renewal of major components in the factory, Thorverk looks forward to yet another rock-weed season.
Eyjólfur Hermannsson is the first to join Thorverk for a training season towards a journeyman certificate in mechnical engineering. His master and trainer is Björn Samúelsson. It so happens that the last one to have a similar training session was Björn himself. They all signed a contract this morning, last day of winter.
