Explore Potential Commercial Applications, Ingredients and Markets for Algae

HOUSTON - Jan. 15, 2015 - PRLog -- Algae is multi-purpose. It is commercially cultivated for food ingredients, animal feeds, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, cosmetics, consumes CO2 and can clean wastewater. It is commercially cultivated for fuel – in Canada, China, Australia, Israel and other countries, but not yet in the United States. To quote a statement made by a Boeing executive when announcing a research partnership among Boeing Co., U.S. government agencies and Chinese research institutions and state companies including Air China Ltd. and PetroChina Ltd. in 2011, the initiative was taking place in China because "they've made the decision to move faster."

National Algae Association and its algaepreneurs are fast-tracking commercialization and deployment. We are taking technologies out of laboratories and into commercial production. We are doing in the United States what Boeing and the US government agencies cannot do. The fact that the United States is not leading this effort proves that the US government agencies are not capable of doing it; the failure of any of the members of the Department of Energy’s biomass and green fuels initiatives to attend our events despite numerous invitations confirms that they do not want to know how to commercialize the technologies the U.S. taxpayer has already invested in.

National Algae Association provides the opportunity to explore these commercialapplications and markets, and a platform to discuss scaling up technologies to grow, harvest and extract algae. Its Algae Production Workshops focus on taking technologies out of laboratories and into commercial environments. Collaborate with commerciallyminded algae researchers, algae producers, equipment manufacturers and potential investors who are doing it, not talking about it, meet to share lessons learned in open and honest discussions. Tour an algae production incubator facility and see how standardization is coming to the commercial algae production industry.