ANFACO

The National Association of Fish and Seafood Canning Manufacturers – National Technical Centre for the Preservation of Fish Products (ANFACO-CECOPESCA) is a private non-profit business association whose mission, more than a century after its founding, continues to be to represent and defend the sectoral interests of the marine and food cluster, as well as to provide high added value services through its Technology Center. It is located in Vigo, and has more than 250 associated members. ANFACO has a strong experience of participation in EU programmes such as Research Framework Programmes, along with different projects funded by public sources at European, national and regional levels and by private companies. This experience encompasses research activities, coordination of partnerships and implementation and economic management and extensive collaboration with Administrations, national and international research institutions and private companies. Its main scientific activities are related to food security, development of more sustainable preservation technologies, product design according to the trends of the current consumer towards a healthier diet, resource management and valorisation of by-products and more sustainable production models based on the concept of eco-innovation.