Posts Tagged ‘MiAlgae’
Story telling
Aquaculture needs to get better at explaining itself, but there were plenty of great narratives at the Blue Food Innovation Summit, as Robert Outram reports.
Read MoreWhisky based algae start-up gets £1m boost
AN Edinburgh based microalgae company has secured further investment of £1 million to commercialise its whisky derived feed alternative. Biotech start-up MiAlgae uses co-products from the whisky distillation process to produce microalgae, high in omega-3 and other nutrients. The algae can be used to replace marine ingredients in fish feed, with one tonne of algae saving up to 30 tonnes of…
Read MoreStudent feed start-up wins £500,000
A MICROALGAE feed start-up launched by an Edinburgh University student has just won £500,000 funding to build a pilot plant. MiAlgae aims to revolutionise the animal and fish feed industries with microalgae made from the co-products of whisky. The company, founded by Douglas Martin (pictured) while a masters student in Edinburgh in 2015-16, grows algae…
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