Spanish algae processing firm joins Dutch water technology centre Wetsus

The Dutch watertechnology research centre Wetsus recenly announced that Algae Biotech has entered the Algae theme as participant. Algae Biotech SL, is a Spanish-based company dedicated to create an algae processing platform to address the growing demand for biomass and its derived products, such as oils and proteins in global food, cosmetic, feed, pharmaceutical and energy markets. Algae Biotech's intellectual proprietary technology covers supercritical carbon dioxide drying, extraction and purification technology to create the cleanest food grade algae products in the market.

Biofuels from microalgae
Within Wetsus, a research theme ‘biofuels from microalgae’ was started in 2008. The objective of this research program is to realize breakthroughs leading to the successful commercialization of a microalgae production process for biofuels feedstock. This research theme is supported by 13 companies listed below and carried out by 7 PhD researchers focusing on different issues related to this process:

Commercial production
Algae Biotech SL, is a Spanish-based company dedicated to create an algae processing platform to address the growing demand for biomass and its derived products, such as oils and proteins in global food, cosmetic, feed, pharmaceutical and energy markets. Algae Biotech’s intellectual proprietary technology covers supercritical carbon dioxide drying, extraction and purification technology to create the cleanest food grade oils in the market.

These scalable technological systems enable commercial-scale production of a wide range of algae products.

More information: Wetsus, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, +31 58 284 30 00
www.wetsus.nl

More infdormation: Algae Biotech, Las Palmas, Spain +34 928 132 830
www.algaebiotech.es