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26 June 202523 June 2025

Origin by Ocean partners with the CABB Group for a first-of-a-kind biorefinery to commercialize and scale ingredients from invasive brown algae

Origin by Ocean aims to build a biorefinery in Finland, opening the pathway to establish multiple facilities globally where algae is a major problem for the environment and people

25 February 202520 February 2025

Origin by Ocean Launches Demo Production Facility in Otaniemi, Finland

The Otaniemi facility is the first production site in Europe to refine alginate and fucoidan from sargassum, setting a precedent for how marine biomass can be leveraged in industrial applications

13 September 202410 September 2024

Scaling Europe’s algal biorefineries

Algae holds an immense number of complex chemicals that hold applications across several industries, but for all its advantages, biorefineries making algal products are still rare

17 November 202313 November 2023

AFRY engineering partner in biorefinery project turning harmful seaweed into valuable products

Origin by Ocean and AFRY have entered a collaborative engineering collaboration to plan an industrial-scale biorefinery for processing bio-based seaweed products in Finland. The conceptual study phases aim to define production concepts and the steps required to construct a biorefinery. Origin by Ocean’s first algae biorefinery in Finland is projected to reach full production capacity by 2027

4 March 20211 March 2021

Brightplus and Origin by Ocean join forces to utilise redefined seaweed in biomaterials

Both companies share the common vision of improving the climate emissions by creating sustainable materials from biosources