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Danish food-tech takes over defunct plant to scale-up production of chlorella

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The facility is one of Europe’s largest and most modern precision fermentation plants for chlorella production and brings Aliga Microalgae one step closer to realizing its ambition to become Europe’s leading manufacturer within the “next few years”​.

Aliga Microalgae co-founder and sales director, David Erlandsson told Nutraingredients.com: “By incorporating this facility in our operations, we will have production in Denmark, Holland and France making us one of the largest producers of Chlorella in Europe.

“We will continuebuilding on the strong market presence in B2B dietary supplement segment which they had established with their high-quality green Chlorella.”

Production capacity will expand from approximately 400 tons per annum to 600 tons as a result of the acquisition, including both white and green chlorella.

“The company will be well equipped to meet the growing marketing demands we currently see for sustainable, high-quality European produced Chlorella ingredients, both from the dietary supplement markets and the growing plant-based food market segments,” Erlandsson said.

Sustainable complement

Aliga Microalgae develops dried chlorella using a scalable precision fermentation process that allows them to cultivate large volumes with “a stable quality​” batch after batch. Ingredients are naturally rich in proteins (including all essential amino acids), vitamins, minerals, dietary fibers, and fatty acids.

“Our Chlorella, particularly our white one, is a sustainable complement to soy and pea ingredients thus many food and nutrition manufactures want to include this ingredient in their formulations,” Erlandsson explained.

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