{"id":16187,"date":"2013-01-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130115-04n"},"modified":"2013-01-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T22:00:00","slug":"food-feed-pharma-fuel-and-furfural-will-financing-emerge-for-new-opportunities-in-seaweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/food-feed-pharma-fuel-and-furfural-will-financing-emerge-for-new-opportunities-in-seaweed\/","title":{"rendered":"Food, feed, pharma, fuel and furfural: will financing emerge for new opportunities in seaweed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>In this mornings Biofuels Digest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/2013\/01\/15\/4-reasons-why-canada-is-becoming-a-biofuels-hotspot\/\" >we reported that a collaboration<\/a> between the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology\u2019 Institute of Tropical Biology (ITB) and Algen Sustainables is converting seaweed into protein, fuel-blendable alcohol, and a bacterial soil product. Algen Sustainables is an international project developer based in the USA. It utilizes macro-algae and other sustainable biomass types in the production of industrial bio-products.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The project is part of a bio-economy demonstration that is also enhancing shrimp quality and yield by co-cropping naturally-occurring aquatic plants as a bio-chemical feedstock. It was funded in part by grants from the governments of Denmark and Netherlands with additional research support from labs in the USA and China \u2014 and now the project sponsors are looking for an industrial partner that can help scale up the technologies to serve the regional chemicals market.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230;Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/biobased\/2013\/01\/15\/food-feed-pharma-fuel-and-furfural-will-financing-emerge-for-new-opportunities-in-seaweed\/\" >www.biofuelsdigest.com\/biobased\/2013\/01\/15\/food-feed-pharma-fuel-and-furfural-will-financing-emerge-for-new-opportunities-in-seaweed\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: Vietnam Biomass Opportunity, Vietnam shrimp industry, food source, sustainable biobased projects, hand-up, co-investment, R&#038;D<br \/><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>In this mornings Biofuels Digest, we reported that a collaboration between the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology&rsquo; Institute of Tropical Biology (ITB) and Algen<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[4360,4358,4359],"class_list":["post-16187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-algen-sustainables","supplier-institute-of-tropical-biology-itb","supplier-vietnam-academy-of-science-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16187"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}