Our business cannot thrive unless people and the planet are thriving. Sustainable and shared value creation is therefore the goal of our business activities.
Growing our business within social and planetary boundaries and facilitating healthy, sustainable lives for humans and animals.
We believe that sustainable business practices, from acting responsibly to developing and delivering innovative solutions for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is key to our success. As part of our commitment to sustainable and responsible business practices, Rimfrost Holding AS has embedded the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact into strategies and operations, and committed to respecting human and labour rights, safeguarding the environment, and working against corruption in all its forms, as reflected in our responsible business policy. To contribute to the achievement of the SDGs we strive to:
To guide us in taking meaningful and impactful action we have performed a materiality assessment. The assessment revealed focus areas where we as a company can make a positive impact, either by improving our performance or by enhancing opportunities.
Krill oil is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, specifically EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid). These essential fats play a crucial role in supporting heart health, reducing inflammation, and promoting brain function.
Krill oil’s unique structure allows for superior absorption as the phospholipid form of omega-3s in krill oil, making it more effective in delivering nutrients to our cells.
Krill oil also contains astaxanthin, a potent antioxidant, protecting cells from oxidative damage, supporting skin health, and contribute to eye health.
Studies suggest that krill oil may alleviate joint pain and stiffness due to its anti-inflammatory properties and most importantly, research indicates that krill oil have beneficial effects on hearth health by improving lipid profiles (increasing HDL (good) cholesterol and reducing LDL (bad) cholesterol levels).
Krill oil also contains choline, an essential nutrient, important for normal lipid metabolism and liver function
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Antarctic krill provides a unique combination of nutrients, making it a natural superfood for pets.
Packed with omega-3 fatty acids, astaxanthin, choline and proteins, krill ingredients offer a myriad of health benefits for pets in addition to improving palatability
Used as a functional ingredient in pet diets, krill can contribute to health and wellbeing by promoting a shiny coat and healthy skin, supporting joint health and cognitive function and enhancing overall wellbeing in cats and dogs at every life stage.
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Aquaculture is vital for global food security and human nutrition. Our krill hydrolysate offers solutions to aquaculture’s sustainability challenges. By adding it to aquaculture feed, we can help improve aquaculture production efficiency and animal welfare. Krill hydrolysate enhance the palatability of feed, which again increases growth rate, reduce animal mortality and reduce feed waste. Moreover, the taste enhancing properties improve formulation flexibility and allows for reduced dependence on fishmeal.
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We like to say that Rimfrost is the home of krill innovations. Our world-leading innovations has improved krill production process to take better care of the nutrients and produce krill products more sustainably.
Our unique patented production process is what sets us apart from other players in the industry and is key to our business strategy. We aim to deliver sustainable and innovative marine ingredients across the world, and innovation is one of our key drivers for our future success. Being innovative will help us to deliver solutions for a sustainable future, by continuously improving our products, processes, and workforce to generate long-term social and environmental benefits while creating economic profits.
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We integrate societal improvements into our company strategy, benefiting both business and society. Our focus is on delivering sustainable marine ingredients that promote human and animal health, leveraging our unique technology and experience.
Additionally, we actively participate in partnerships like UN Global Compact, ARK, NCE Blue Legasea, MSC, and various research projects to drive sustainability.
We are aware of potential future climate hazards and their potential impacts for our business, fundamental for the prioritisation of climate action and investment in adaptation solutions. Avoiding global warming and its impact on the Antarctic ecosystem is crucial for our business. Our aim is to lead in climate action within the Krill fishery. With our state-of-the-art fishing vessel, we’ve initiated our decarbonization journey and embrace a net-zero vision for 2050. Our krill products have a low carbon footprint, and several products have the potential to contribute to downstream emissions reduction.
A thriving Antarctic ecosystem is crucial for our business, both now and in the long term. We deeply respect the role of krill within this delicate ecosystem.
Our approach is to sustainably harvest only what we need, with precision, minimizing our impact.
We are deeply commited to sustainability. The annual krill catch represents just 0.3% of the total krill biomass. Stringent regulations by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) govern our commercial krill harvesting in FAO area 48. In addition we are member of ARK (The Association of Responsible Krill harvesting companies) which promotes the best practices in the fishery including the adoption of 100% independent international observer coverage. Learn more about ARK here.
Our state-of-the-art fishing vessel adheres to the highest environmental standards. It holds clean design notation and complies with the IMO polar code for environmental performance.
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While our business contribute to the delivery of high-quality marine ingredients and nutraceuticals that satisfy human and animals needs and bring quality of life, we are also progressively aiming to reduce ecological impacts and resource intensity of our operations and products throughout the life cycle. We respect planetary boundaries and circular principles. With our modern and environmentally friendly krill vessel, as well as our patented resource and energy efficient production process, we have already taken big steps.
Moreover, our unique krill products contribute to downstream resource efficiency in aquaculture and in efficient digestion of nutrients in human and animals, while having a natural long shelf life, ensuring eco-efficiency from cradle to grave.
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Our people are our most important asset. We believe that prioritizing employee health, safety, well-being, training, education, personal development, gender equality, and diversity contributes to organizational success and a thriving workforce.
Our crew’s safety and wellbeing is of outmost importance to our company. With one of the strongest social sustainability regulations of the world, ships with a Norwegian flag hold strong focus on the health and safety of the crew and passengers. We strive to be an attractive and responsible employer and offers benefits beyond decent living wages, like insurance programs, pensions, health services, local social events, and family support, to name a few.
Moreover, all fishing operations are designed to ensure minimal manual handling, especially when handling trawling gear, minimizing risks to our people. Operating in a challenging environment, our fishing vessel fulfils and exceeds the Polar Code for safety for fishing vessels ensuring the highest safety standards.
We believe that ethical business practices, anti-corruption efforts, and respect for human and labor rights contribute to organizational success, stakeholder trust, and a sustainable future.
As part of our commitment to sustainable and responsible business practices, we have embedded the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact into strategies and operations, and committed to respecting human and labour rights, safeguarding the environment, and working against corruption in all its forms, as reflected in our responsible business policy.
Rimfrost is committed to responsible business practices. We acknowledge that we through our activities can have an impact on people, planet and prosperity, both positive and negative, direct and indirect.
A part of our responsibility is therefore to identify and manage actual and potential positive and negative impacts our activities can have on people. Through our compliance with the Norwegian Transparancy Act and our membership in UN Global Compact we commit to promote and respect human rights and decent working conditions, especially in our supply chain and in our own operations. We perform social due diligence and encourage our suppliers and business partners to do the same. This way we can both increase trust in our business at the same time do our part to contribute to sustainable development.
Enquiries about our compliance with the Norwegian Transparency Act will be handled according to the Transparency Act section 7. For more information - email
To raise a concern, please use our whistleblower page.
Rimfrost Holding AS and it’s subsidiaries are committed to contributing to sustainable development.
This includes operating responsibly by identifying, preventing, mitigating, and accounting for adverse environmental, social and governance impacts in our own operation and supply chain. We expect the same commitment from our suppliers and business partners.