{"id":5275,"date":"2015-01-23T10:19:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T10:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=5275"},"modified":"2015-03-13T06:31:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T06:31:18","slug":"algae-industry-in-2014-a-review-of-aims-comprehensive-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/algae-industry-in-2014-a-review-of-aims-comprehensive-perspectives.html","title":{"rendered":"Algae Industry in 2014 \u2013 A Review of AIM\u2019s and Oilgae’s Comprehensive Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Algae Industry Magazine<\/a> had recently covered in great detail the growth and happening in the algae industry in 2014.<\/p>\n

This was an excellent three part blog posts. (For full details, read the blog posts from here \u2013 part 1<\/a>, part 2<\/a> and part 3<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I had the opportunity to read all these in detail, and am presenting a summary of these. I took the opportunity to also include data and details from other reviews and posts we had done at Oilgae, so let’s say this is a fairly comprehensive review of AIM’s and Oilgae’s perspectives.<\/p>\n

Algae Fuels<\/strong><\/p>\n

Funnily, or perhaps on reflection, not so funnily, I found there\u2019s little mention of any dramatic developments in the algae to fuel domain.<\/p>\n

The only two prominent mentions I found from the AIM’s reports were one about Japan\u2019s Isuzu Motors Ltd. agreeing to work on biodiesel from algae<\/a>, and Australia\u2019s Muradel<\/a> launching the country\u2019s first integrated demonstration plant to sustainably convert algae into green crude<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Further review of Oilgae’s posts over 2014 show a few more, but not exactly plenty:<\/p>\n

One is about ABB partnering with a US company<\/a> on integrated algae production systems, a bit vague really; \u00a0a couple of other news items talk about Neste<\/a> and Boeing<\/a> keen on dipping their\u00a0toes into algae fuels, still appears fairly nascent exercises. Another energy major, Iberdrola had announced plans early 2014 to invest in a Mexico facility<\/a>. And finally, a company Qeshm from Iran seems to be getting serious about bio-jet fuel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having seen the algae fuel industry last 8 years, we have heard enough announcements similar to the ones above. All I can say, 2014 was a nothing-year as far as fuels from algae was concerned. Sure, 2015 could be better, but some one should show some real scale production and more important, real working out of costs. Just announcements will not do.<\/p>\n

Algae Non-fuel Products<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Have you seen Oilgae’s comprehensive report on the attractive product and business opportunities from algae?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The only report anywhere in the world<\/strong><\/em> that scientifically analyses every possible non-fuel product opportunity from algae – in nutrition, animal\/fish feed, medicine and pharma, specialty chemicals such as agrochemicals and lubricants, plastics, environmental remediation and more.<\/p>\n

Know more about the Comprehensive Algae Business Opportunities\u00a0report from here<\/strong><\/a> .<\/p>\n

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The posts (both from AIM and Oilgae) however have a lot to report on when it comes to non-fuel value added products from algae.<\/p>\n

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Some prominent highlights for the following sectors<\/strong><\/p>\n