Dear seaweed & microalgae investors, buyers, operators, and technologists, here are 12 noteworthy market developments in recent weeks:
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🌊 AltaSea, in San Pedro, inaugurates the nation's largest ocean technology hub.
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🌿 Indonesia launches International Tropical Seaweed Research Center.
🌿 Seaweed forests are an overlooked component of oceanic carbon storage, study finds.
🌊 Hatch Blue and Idemitsu launch unique blue carbon initiative.
🌿 Volta Greentech secures $3.2 million to develop the second generation of the feed supplement Lome. The company states that the new supplement reduces greenhouse gas reduction costs by ten times.
🌊 Seagreen Insights shares fresh insights on the US seaweed sector.
🌿 Study: Mussel and seaweed farming can boost wild fish populations.
🌿 ALEHOOP, a European project funded by Sustainable Bio-Based Europe, has successfully used pilot-scale biorefineries to recover sustainable proteins from macroalgae (seaweed) and legume byproducts.
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🐟 Novel ingredients can help plug aquaculture supply gap. But who will pay?
💸 ARPA-E announces $150M to develop systems that provide abundant primary energy, enable intermodal energy transport, and sustainably meet demand for polymers & other materials.
🟢 Using sewage sludge to combat algal blooms.
🤝 Verne, a data centre solutions provider, has announced a new partnership with the biotech food producer VAXA to offset its residual carbon emissions in Iceland.
Find out more about these updates (and so many more) in this week's upcoming Paxtier Report: https://lnkd.in/ewVn5Zq9.
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