Optimar and Slippurinn Akureyri announce a strategic partnership

10. mars 2025

Optimar and Slippurinn Akureyri are strengthening their collaboration with a strategic partnership to enhance their position in both domestic and international markets. This alliance will create new opportunities for both companies and their customers.

Through this partnership, Slippurinn Akureyri and Optimar will work closely to facilitate service and retrofits of vessels. Additionally, they will leverage each other’s expertise to offer a broader range of products and solutions tailored to the seafood industry.

– By teaming up, we strengthen our service network and gain direct access to state-of-the-art competence, says Páll Kristjánsson, CEO of Slippurinn Akureyri, and Siggi Olason, CEO of Optimar. 


Reinforcing their vision and commitment

This strategic partnership enables Optimar and Slippurinn Akureyri to provide more comprehensive solutions. It reinforces their vision and commitment to developing and designing high-tech processing equipment and facilitates cross-border production.

– Together, we offer a seamless combination of services and products, ensuring that our customers receive the best possible support, says Olason.

Slippurinn Akureyri shares this enthusiasm and looks forward to seeing the results of combining expertise and experience to build a stronger, more competitive entity.

– Optimar is a recognized innovator in the seafood industry, and we are excited to work even more closely together to solve our customer’s challenges, says Kristjánsson 


Páll Kristjánsson, CEO Slippurinn Akureyri 


Siggi Ólason, CEO Optimar AS

17. júlí 2025
Davíð Gíslason and his wife Rungruang Gíslason visiting our facility – with the latest generation of DNG jigging reels, the R1, in the background.
17. júlí 2025
Davíð Gíslason og eiginkona hans Rungruang Gíslason í heimsókn hjá okkur – með nýjustu kynslóð DNG færavinda, R1, í bakgrunni.
17. júní 2025
Bergur VE hefur fengið nafnið Bergey VE á ný. Ljósm. Halldór Rafn Ágústsson
6. júní 2025
We welcome Daði Tryggvason to our team as the new Project Manager and Head of DNG Jigging Reels. Daði brings extensive and practical experience from both the fishing industry and public administration, which will serve him well in this new role. He holds a BSc degree in Fisheries Science from the University of Akureyri and has worked for over two decades on a wide range of projects within the sector. This includes many years at sea, both on trawlers and jigging boats equipped with DNG jigging reels. First-hand user experience with the company’s equipment is invaluable — particularly when it comes to product development and customer service. In addition to his time at sea, Daði has worked in aquaculture and most recently as a fisheries specialist at the Directorate of Fisheries, where he was responsible for quota allocations, licensing (including ICCAT and CITES), and customer relations. We look forward to the collaboration and are confident that Daði’s experience and insight will support the continued development of DNG Jigging Reels. https://www.slippurinndng.is/faeravindur
6. júní 2025
Við bjóðum Daða Tryggvason velkominn til liðs við okkur sem nýjan verkefnastjóra og yfirmann DNG Færavinda. Daði kemur með víðtæka og hagnýta reynslu úr sjávarútvegi og opinberri stjórnsýslu, sem mun nýtast vel í hans nýja hlutverki. Hann er með BSc gráðu í sjávarútvegsfræði frá Háskólanum á Akureyri og hefur starfað í yfir tvo áratugi við fjölbreytt verkefni innan greinarinnar. Þar á meðal má nefna áralanga sjómennsku bæði á togurum og handfærabátum, sem voru búnir færavindum frá DNG. Sú þekking sem fylgir beinni notendareynslu af búnaði fyrirtækisins er dýrmæt, sérstaklega þegar kemur að vöruþróun og þjónustu við viðskiptavini. Auk þess hefur Daði starfað í fiskeldi og síðast sem sérfræðingur í fiskveiðum hjá Fiskistofu, þar sem hann sinnti meðal annars úthlutun kvóta, leyfisveitingum (þar á meðal ICCAT og CITES) og viðskiptatengslum. Við hlökkum til samstarfsins og trúum því að reynsla og innsýn Daða styrki áframhaldandi þróun DNG Færavinda. https://www.slippurinndng.is/faeravindur
31. maí 2025
Til hamingju með sjómannadaginn – við sendum sjómönnum og fjölskyldum þeirra hlýjar kveðjur og þökkum fyrir mikilvægt starf á sjó.
Fleiri færslur