Algae.Tec Ltd has launched its Alganics range of products at the Supply Side West 2016 show in Las Vegas, considered the world’s leading nutraceutical ingredient and solutions tradeshow. The launch of the Alganics range of products was in conjunction with the company’s major customer, Gencor Pacific, a health supplements and nutraceutical company. Recently, Algae.Tec signed […]

Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have performed an experiment to modify algae so that it can be used to mass-produce hydrogen on an industrial scale. Although algae can produce hydrogen using photosynthesis, it was believed that this only occurred for a few minutes at dawn, resulting in limited amounts of the gas. But tests […]

Skretting, Nutreco’s fish feed division, has told that a breakthrough in R&D development by Evonik and DSM has opened a path to provide feed formulations containing EPA and DHA from algal oil as and when the industry requires them. As global supplies of fish oil remain static or decline and demand for aqua feed grows […]

In the recent years, there has been a shift of trend towards use of natural ingredients in various forms of food nutrients in cosmetics and nutraceutical industry. Growing demand for cosmetics and personal care products is expected to increase the consumption of astaxanthin, thus driving the global astaxanthin market over the forecast period. Increasing demand […]

Spirulina extract market is expected to grow with a single digit CAGR over the forecast period. Europe is expected to dominate the spirulina extracts market in next four to five years, followed by North America. Various regions including Asia Pacific and North America are preferring natural products such as spirulina extracts which is expected to […]

Scientists from Singapore performed an experiment where a microfiltration-based membrane photobioreactor (MPBR) and forward osmosis-based osmotic membrane photobioreactor (OMPBR) was operated with Chlorella vulgaris for continuous tertiary wastewater treatment. Results indicated that the integration of membrane filtration with photobioreactors is promising in microalgae-based tertiary wastewater treatment. More

Scientists performed an experiment where the concentration of a natural colorant called C-Phycocyanin (C-PC) extract from a Cyanobacteria Spirulina platensis was explored by forward osmosis process. The effect of various parameters such as change in Feed and Osmotic Agent (OA) flow rate (25–125 mL/min), OA concentration (1–6 M NaCl) was studied during the concentration of […]