We specialize in the development and production of innovative materials by combining cutting-edge technological innovation and environmental awareness to transform sustainably sourced, renewable resources into high-quality, value-added products.
By leveraging our innovative research, as well as our comprehensive team of experts, we are looking to solidify our long-term competitive advantage in this newly emerging industry and pioneer the development of new high-quality products to meet demand across a diverse array of commercial industries.
To transform sustainably sourced seaweed into high-quality, innovative products while sequestering greenhouse gases, helping restore and support local marine habitats, and growing the marine aquaculture industry here in Canada by creating reliable and long-lasting career opportunities for communities all across the country.
Since nearly all of the world’s farmed seaweed production is still completely dominated by Asia, where expensive shipping costs as well as labour-intensive, inefficiently designed farms result in excessively high prices for commercial seaweed, the potential long-term scalability of seaweed production is limited, making it difficult to meet increasing demand and produce financially viable downstream products.
Many of these products, such as seaweed-derived compounds used in different pharmaceutical, cosmetic, or food supplementation applications, are manufactured using significant amounts of chemical solvents, making the entire process extremely harmful to the environment while completely negating all the inherent environmental benefits that seaweed provides.
These compounds can also be used to manufacture sustainable, bio-based alternatives to petroleum-based plastics. However, while petroleum-based plastics aren’t good for the environment, primarily because they leave behind microplastics as part of their degradation process, the vast majority of these bio-based alternatives aren’t much better.
All of these bio-based solutions are made from other forms of biomass that unlike seaweed, are food crops that would directly compete with global food production when used at scale, making them an impractical option for the production of high-volume, in-demand products.
With our breakthroughs in developing more efficient ways to cultivate seaweed at scale through process automation and space optimization, and through our efforts to leverage Canada’s abundance of natural renewable resources and use next-generation, carbon-free technology to implement cheaper and more environmentally friendly production processes, we are building a one-of-a-kind vertically integrated supply chain. This will include establishing North America’s largest and most productive seaweed cultivation site, as well as its first ever commercial-scale seaweed biorefinery.
In doing so, we will pioneer the production of high-value,in-demand seaweed-derived compounds across a diverse array of specialized commercial industries without the use of any chemical solvents, as well as a number of new, fully compostable, seaweed-based alternatives to many everyday products.
All of this will enable us to manufacture innovative, environmentally friendly materials for cheaper, all right here in North America.
To make this province — and all of — the epicentre of new technological solutions that we can use to develop the supply chains necessary for the viable production of seaweed-based products, leveraging our geographical advantages to solidify our position as leaders in a rapidly expanding global industry. We want to help build a strong and reliable circular economy by turning sustainably sourced, renewable resources into completely bio-based and compostable high-quality materials that can be used by a wide range of commercial industries.
Our end goal is for these materials to be composted and upcycled into new products, forming a closed-loop system that can minimize waste, conserve valuable resources, and generate new, high-quality products that will ultimately contribute to building a more sustainable and resilient economy for all.
The science and innovation we’re dedicated to working on not only has the potential to create significant economic benefits, it can also be used to strengthen and preserve the natural resources native to the regions in which we operate. Seaweed is one of our best natural tools in the fight against climate change, and it can also be leveraged to create new and reliable opportunities for coastal areas across the country, particularly rural regions in northern Canada where consistent, high-paying jobs could greatly benefit Indigenous communities that only have access to a limited number of commercial industries.