Subsidiaries

Akvaplan-niva is a non-commercial research and consultancy institute with expertise in the physical environment, biodiversity, aquaculture and ecological processes in marine and freshwater environments.

The company owns an advanced research station (FISK) for R&D into new marine aquaculture species, as well as its own fleet of autonomous and remotely operated vessels for environmental mapping across large areas of the sea.

The limited company Akvaplan AS was founded in 1984 and is today, as Akvaplan-niva AS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Norwegian Institute for Water Research – NIVA.

Akvaplan-niva is the founder and owner of Arctic Frontiers, a dialogue platform for Arctic issues and an annual conference in Tromsø.

akvaplan.no/en

BallastTech-NIVA AS was one of the first companies in the world to establish a full-scale centre for land-based testing of equipment for the treatment of ballast water in accordance with the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The testing centre is located at NIVA's research station at Solbergstrand, 20 km from Oslo. BallastTech-NIVA AS is a wholly owned subsidiary of NIVA-tech AS.

ballasttech-niva.no

NIVA Chile SA is owned 50% by NIVA and 50% by NIVA-tech AS. The organisation primary focus is to provide advice about water-quality and -treatment to the Chilean aquaculture industry.

nivachile.cl

NIVA-tech AS works with commercial applications for NIVA's competence, services, products and technology. 

In general this marketing involves: 

• selling our competence through project assignments
• issuing user rights through licence contracts
• acquisitions of holdings in other companies
• establishing new subsidiaries for further development of NIVA's immaterial property rights (IPR)

NIVA opened its China offices in the summer of 2017. The office is located in Beijing.

nivachina.com