UK sports drink Lucozade Sport is to trial plastic-free sports drinks and gels: turning to edible seaweed packaging Ooho. Created by materials engineering startup Skipping Rocks Lab, the Ooho packaging can naturally biodegrade in four to six weeks or can be eaten. More

Ten French companies have shown interest in developing and cultivating the algae industry in Saudi Arabia, with the aim of establishing an effective network capable of meeting the enormous future food and chemical needs. As a result, Riyadh and Paris have entered into a new phase of cooperation in the algae industry. The project will begin […]

The European Commission (EC) has extended the use of micro algae oil after BASF, Nutraveris and Mara Renewables notified the Commission of their intention to market the oil as a novel food. The ruling allows the use of oil from the microalgae Schizochytrium sp. strain T18 in food supplements, food intended for infants and young […]

DARe (Darussalam Enterprise) hosted a Brunei-Korea talk to promote technology intensive venture business programme at its iCentre in Anggerek Desa. The afternoon session at the KHub began with a presentation on micro algae (spirulina) cultivating and manufacturing through solar energy by Dr Lee Jung-Seok from Sunbiotech. This was followed by two more presentations – Cosmetic […]

Regulations and consumer needs have expanded the market for food products labelled green. However, affordable technological tools to produce vegetables sustainably are not readily available. To compound the challenge, European vegetable suppliers have neither the knowledge nor the willingness to change their cultivation methods. The EU-funded VegaAlga (Sustainable agricultural eco-system: business and technological solution for […]

Allmicroalgae Natural Products’ Chlorella vulgaris microalgae has received organic certification by the European Union as the Portuguese-based firm look to respond to growing demand for organic, fully traceable plant-based ingredients. In the US, chlorella sells into products like ice cream, tea, savoury spreads and baked goods, where its favourable nutrient profile of vitamins, minerals, carotenoids, […]

The woman-owned plant-based sustainable seafood company, New Wave Foods, will launch its vegan shrimp this July in restaurants throughout New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut, Philadelphia, and Long Island. The plant-based shrimp will be available in “raw” form or a crispy breaded variety. The company has partnered with Ace Natural, one of the most recognized organic and […]

The health benefits of Spirulina algae are widely known, but normally the superfood has to be purchased in powdered form. A new device has been created by Bentur in the form of the world’s first fully-automated system called Spirugrow.  The Spirugrow growing system has this week launched via Kickstarter and is now available to back with early […]

Algatechnologies, Ltd. (“Algatech”) launches Fucovital®, a patented, all-natural 3% fucoxanthin oleoresin produced and extracted from microalgae. Fucovital’s unique composition is the first fucoxanthin granted New Dietary Ingredient Notification (NDIN) acknowledgement for dietary supplements from the FDA. Fucovital will be launched in the US and Japan, and launches will follow in other regions successively. Clinical trials demonstrate […]

Perth based health sciences company Algae.Tec will partner with Canadian-based extraction firm Radient Technologies as the company takes the next major step towards producing algae-based nutraceuticals for the fast-growing global market. In a recent market update, Algae.Tec said the deal with Radient would enable it to use the Edmonton-headquartered company’s extraction technology to boost the […]

Algatechnologies, Ltd (Algatech) has partnered with Italian research and development (R&D) company, Sphera Encapsulation S r l, to develop innovative functional ingredient formats. Based on Sphera’s propriety encapsulation technology, the partnership will focus first on the development of innovative new delivery forms of ingredients derived from microalgae. This debut product, expected to launch in the […]

Nutrex Hawaii, Inc. is pleased to announce that its BioAstin® Hawaiian Astaxanthin® and MD Formulas™ have received The International GMO Evaluation and Notification Program™ (IGEN) verification. BioAstin Hawaiian Astaxanthin is a powerful antioxidant supplement derived from natural microalgae grown on the Kona Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. IGEN is a third-party certification program […]

An accidental discovery by an LSU professor could help Mardi Gras “go green.” Every year tens of thousands of plastic beads end up on the street and eventually make their way to landfills. It’s not environmentally friendly, but that could change.  LSU Biological Sciences Professor Dr. Naohiro Kato has come up with an innovative way […]

One of the key challenges in using microalgae as an alternative source of omega-3 oils is the difficulty and high cost associated with separating out the algal biomass from its watery culture medium.  Membrane filters tend to get clogged and most manufacturers have to resort to the use of energy intensive and expensive continuous flow […]

The Natural Algae Astaxanthin Association (NAXA) announced that Chile-based Atacama Bio is its newest executive member. Atacama Bio has been producing natural astaxanthin derived from Haematococcus pluvialis since 2003 in the Atacama Desert in Chile on its 250-acre facility using closed and open photo-bioreactors. NAXA members commit to a Code of Ethics and each member’s raw material is tested in order to […]

Can the key to a more sustainable footwear industry be found in lakes and ponds? If Bloom has any say in it, maybe. The maker of the world’s first plant-based performance foam for footwear found its key ingredient in algae. And the Meridian, Mississippi-based Bloom has created an innovative alternative to conventional foams for insoles, midsoles and outsoles […]

ZIVO Bioscience, Inc. , a biotech/agtech R&D company engaged in the commercialization of nutritional and medicinal products derived from proprietary algal strains, has announced the execution of a letter of intent to produce its proprietary algae strain at Tianjin Norland Biotech (Norland) facilities in China. Norland is one of the largest producers of algae in China, […]

DSM and Evonik said that construction of their joint venture US$200m omega-3 fatty acid manufacturing facility at the Evonik site in Nebraska, US is underway and is proceeding according to plan. The 50:50 joint venture is headquartered at DSM Biotech campus in Delft, in Netherlands. Commercial quantities of DHA and EPA rich algal oil will […]

Supplier AstaReal has taken another step in trying to differentiate itself within the astaxanthin category by announcing it has achieved USP Ingredient Verification on its ingredient. According to the company, the parameters it needed to meet on its AstaReal L10 ingredient to obtain the certification were: Meeting its label or certificate of analysis claims for […]

The global algae omega 3 ingredient market records a revenue of USD 431.5 million in 2016 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11.5 % during the forecast period of 2018 – 2023. Algae as a source accounts for 18% of the global Omega 3 Ingredient market. The market is highly fragmented with […]

New startups entering the space of Global Algae Ingredient need to carefully pick their niches and genres so that they can compete on an equal footing with global companies who have an end to end development studios, production capabilities and global skills and experience backing them. Global Algae Ingredient will grow by 20-45% per year […]

Florida-based Valensa International and parent company EID Parry have announced a new joint venture to develop new ingredients and non-GMO certifications on existing algae products. The joint venture is with Indian flavour, fragrance and food colour ingredients producer Synthite Industries. The agreement includes a $6.5 million investment to establish a new plant for the extraction […]

Algalif®, Icelandic producer of pure, high-grade, natural astaxanthin from microalgae, has announced it has achieved Non-GMO Project verification for its Astalíf™ 5% and 10% oleoresin ingredients. The Non-GMO Project Product Verification Program is North America’s only third-party verification for non-GMO food and products. This third-party verification ensures that Astalíf 5 and 10 have been comprehensively […]

Startup Triton Algae Innovations is betting on a whole-cell protein positioning for an algae species that has been researched for years for its nutraceutical and pharmaceutical ingredient production potential. The San Diego, CA-based company passed a significant regulatory milestone recently with self affirmed GRAS status for its wild type algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The company said that […]

Dutch start-up The Algae Factory is pushing the foodpairing boundaries with its algae chocolate that contains sustainably sourced spirulina. This is a very unusual combination but the chocolate combines well with spirulina. The company has worked a lot on the recipe to find the best variety of cocoa that can soften the taste of spirulina. […]