Advanced Algae heads for Asia!

Heliae raises $15M from Salim Group – R&D center in 2012, aiming for commercial production in 2014; food, feed, fertilizer now, fuels later.  

- Biofuel Digest 4 May 2012

With latest rounds of investments announced for Asia, Algae research and developments are gaining interest as companies race to develop and validate technology solutions for the commercial production of algae.

With the involvement of agribusiness and big food conglomerates like the Salim Group, its evident that algae focus has  expanded beyond fuels and into foods, feed and fertilizers industry

Analysts say that over the next few years, a number of algal companies will hinge on to the feed and food sectors, en route to entering fuels.

Yet, many established companies are focussed on feed and food. While these are smaller markets than fuels,  they offer vast opportunities, and higher per-ton prices

One promising market is astaxanthin estimated to be worth $200 million by 2015  

Microalgae are a highly promising resource for the sustainable production of a wide variety of biomaterials for a wide range of applications and Asia represents a promising market.

Don’t miss CMT’s 5th AlgaeWorld ASIA this November in Singapore.

Top Panel Shares Expertise

• Roadmap for algae developments in Korea & Japan
• Indonesia – latest demonstration plant with two kinds of testing facilities; one vertical reactor the scale of up to 1250 liter and the other a horizontal reactor with working volume of 5000 liter.
  What are the various strains of marine mocroalgae that has been isolated from Indonesian ocean and how are these strains managed ?
• Malaysia - extracting phycobiliproteins from macroalgae and seaweed tissue culture techniques
• India - Microalgae cultivation using industrial waste streams
• Producing high-value added products from Macroalgae
• Commercial production of Astaxanthin, cultivation to processing challenges
• Vietnam – Utilising wastewater from Cassava Ethanol plants to grow algae for biodiesel. In collaboration with the Finland Institute of Environment (SYKE) and cassava ethanol plants, this project is now targeted for scale up to 2500 liter PBR.
• Commercial production of spirulina from one of the worlds largest producer in Myanmar
• China – Sinopec reveals what they are working on in large scale algae fuel production

And many others

Join us on the 8-9th for Nov for an insightful event with extensive business opportunities. Send your registration to huiyan@cmtsp.com.sg

Hear what the industry said about the last event!

"It is a resourceful and enlightened conference"
Center for Coastal and Marine Resources Studies (CCMRS-IPB)

"First time I have joined the conference, but not the last"
Roquette Biotech Nutritionals (Wuhan) Co.,Ltd.

"It is a very nice experience at the conference"
Tongwei Aquatic Sciences and Tech

"I learned much information of Algae production"
Easy Bio System Inc

Separately Bookable Workshop
Algae Harvesting & Extraction
of Bio-Compounds For Production
of High Value Ingredients
7 Nov 2012 (1400 - 1730 hrs.)

Led by Dr Chen Shulin, Professor
Department of Biological Systems Engineering
Washington State University

Dr. Shulin Chen is a Professor of Biological Systems Engineering and the leader of the Bioprocessing and Bioproduct Engineering Laboratory (BBEL) at Washington State University (WSU). He received his PhD in Biological and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University in 1991.

Dr. Chen's research interest is in industrial biosystems engineering applications to bioenergy and bioproducts.

Dr. Chen has published 184 refereed journal papers, contributed to 13 invited book chapters, and is a co-inventor of 30 patent applications. He currently directs research initiatives advancing sciences and technologies on integrated microbial lipid production systems for biofuel, lignocellulosic biomass processing, a new generation of anaerobic digestion technologies, and multi-scale modeling of biorefineries.