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