New Börkur with the new Twister® trawl doors

Sildarvinnslan’s new pelagic trawler arrived in Iceland on thursday and will they be spreading their trawls with a set of Vónin’s new pelagic trawl doors.

The Twister trawl doors, which have been used by Høgaberg and Tróndur í Gøtu have already proven to a have very high spreading power and fantastic stability where the vessels have been able to make impressive sharp turns.

The Twister trawl doors are built on some of the same principales as Vónin’s popular Tornado doors, but with some updates and improvements.

Vónin is working on making the Twister doors controllable and in the near future the active control will be tried and tested. This will make the Twister trawl doors controllable.

We at Vónin would like to congratulate owners and crew members with the new Börkur and wish them best of luck and godspeed.

Other news about Twister

Investing in engineering

Vónin has acquired Danish engineering and design company Volu Ventis. Based in Silkeborg, Volu Ventis and its managing director Søren Hjort have a long background in the energy and green tech sectors, specialising in aerodynamics and hydrodynamics. Volu Ventis will be fully integrated into Vónin’s research and development structure.

Testing the new generation trawl doors

In the last year Vónin has worked extensively on a new pelagic trawl door that can be controlled. The work has gathered pace and it was last week that Høgaberg was pilot testing the new Twister trawl doors with great success. This new Twister will be a active control trawl door and this is a solution that we will be offering in the near future, but we are still in testing phase of the final product