Ben Williams

San Diego...Aqua Bounty Technologies, Inc., a Waltham, Massachusetts-based company focused on enhancing aquaculture productivity through the application of advanced biotechnologies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ben Williams to lead the company's sales effort in Latin America. Williams, whose career spans more than a decade in sales of aquaculture feeds and technical products, will manage the introduction of the company's feed additives, therapeutics, diagnostic tools and health management products across the region.

Williams is an academically trained biologist with significant international experience in market development, distribution and new product introduction. He served as shrimp sales manager at Zeigler Bros., a long-established aqua feeds producer in the USA, and helped launch the company's feeds on the international market. As the international sales and marketing manager for Magic Valley Heli-Arc, he introduced a shrimp harvesting system in Asia and Central America. He began his career at Prime Artemia, a supplier of brine shrimp cysts, as laboratory director and later assumed sales and marketing responsibility.

Headquartered at the Aqua Bounty Pacific offices in San Diego, California, Williams can be reached at bwilliams@aquabounty.com or by telephone at 208-948-9113.

Ben Williams, business development manager for aeration products at Colorite Plastics, a supplier of Aero-Tube™ aeration systems, says, check out this video.

It shows Aero-Tube's airlift action creating a strong flow of water at a shrimp farm in Vietnam.

Information: Ben Williams, Business Development Manager, Aeration Products, Colorite Plastics, 5804 Van Winkle Lane, Austin, TX 78739 USA (phone 512-494-5155, email ben.williams@tekni-plex.com, webpage http://www.aero-tube.com).

Sources: 1. Email from Ben Williams to Shrimp News International on December 8, 2008. 2. Telephone conversation with Ben Williams on December 11, 2008.

At "Aquaculture 2009", the recent World Aquaculture Society conference in Seattle, Washington, USA (February 2009), I interviewed Ben Williams, business development manager for Aeration Products at Colorite Plastics, which markets Aero-Tube™, an alternative to paddlewheel and Venturi-type aeration systems.

Shrimp News: Tell me a little bit about your products and how shrimp farmers use them.

Ben Williams: The core of our product line is Aero-Tube, our diffuser tubing, invented and patented by Colorite over five years ago.
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Ben Williams: Up to five years under typical shrimp farming conditions.

Shrimp News: Do you sell the air blowers that work with your Aero-Tube products?

Ben Williams: Not as stand-alone products, but we do use blowers with low electrical consumption and high output in Aero-Tube airlift systems.

Shrimp News: Are hatcheries using Aero-Tube?

Ben Williams: Yes, hatcheries really like Aero-Tube.
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Ben Williams: On farms, I recommend airlift systems because they really move a lot of water.
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Ben Williams: We did a trial in one pond, and the company bought 1,300 diffuser grids. Afterward, they reported better food conversion ratios and better overall pond conditions.

Shrimp News: Have you done any cost comparisons between your systems and paddlewheels?

Ben Williams: Electrical costs for our airlift systems are one-third the cost of equally powered paddlewheel systems.
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Information: Ben Williams, Business Development Manager/Aeration Products, Colorite Plastics, 5804 Van Winkle Lane, Austin, Texas 78739, USA (office 1-512-494-5155, mobile 1-512-944-8192, Skype: ebwill1 www.aero-tube.com, email ben.williams@tekni-plex.com, webpage http://www.coloriteaerationtubing.com).
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Source: Ben Williams.

Ben Williams Introduces New Aeration Products

Colorite Plastics, the world's leading producer of garden hose and aeration tubing, has hired Ben Williams to head its Aeration Products Division, which is currently introducing several new products to the aquaculture and wastewater industries worldwide.

Prior to his appointment at Colorite, Williams served as sales manager (Americas) at Aqua Bounty Technologies, a biotechnology company that markets immunostimulants to shrimp feed manufacturers. Previously he held a similar position with Magic Valley Heli-Arc, a manufacturer of fish and shrimp harvesting equipment. He also spent five years with Zeigler Bros., Inc., a shrimp feed manufacturer, where he worked in sales and product development. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree from the University of Utah.

Jay Kline, President of Colorite Plastics, said: "Ben joining the Colorite team at this time is great news for Colorite and our worldwide team.
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Shrimp News contacted Williams for more information on Aero-Tube™. He said three shrimp farms in the United States and one in Indonesia were already testing it, adding: "It really is an interesting product for shrimp farmers (and all aquaculture species) because of it's energy efficiency.
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Information: Ben Williams, Business Development Manager, Aeration Products, Colorite Division, Tekni-Plex, Incorporated, 5804 Van Winkle Lane, Austin, TX 78739 USA (phone 512-494-5155, email ben.williams@tekni-plex.com, webpage www.coloriteaerationtubing.com).
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3. Emails to Shrimp News International from Ben Williams in September 2007.

Ben Williams (ben.williams@tekni-plex.com): I helped develop that product back then, and I know Neil has made some dramatic changes to it.