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Blue Harvest Technologies is a startup company with parents both in Aquaculture and Engineering. The company is a 50/50 venture, and was created to develop technology that would make the seaweed industry actually output industrial amounts of seaweed.

Hortimare supports seaweed initiatives worldwide, providing expertise from conceptualisation to building and scaling. They specialize in seed supply, new species domestication, breeding programs, technical support, and ecosystem services—laying the foundation for their clients' and collaborators' success. Their mission is to build a thriving seaweed industry that benefits both the environment and society. Hortimare strives for a healthy, transparent supply chain where knowledge, skills, and rewards are shared, fostering collective success.

Kuraray is a specialty chemical company founded in Japan in 1926. One of their core products PVA fiber branded “KURALONTM” is popularly used in seaweed farming field as the seeding ropes for more than 60 years. They are looking for the opportunities to contribute to the growth of European seaweed farming industry.

Murre Technologies has been supplying the EasyFarm system with which mussel seed cultivation is possible, for almost 20 years. Seaweed cultivation and processing is their next development. They are building a harvester that harvests the seaweed from the cultivation nets in the sea. Sowing seaweed is also part of the EasyFarm concept, which is why they supply the complete system for harvesting and sowing the seaweed. They have also developed a seaweed bubble washer to sort the sand and undersized waste such as crustaceans from the product during the washing process. The system is equipped with separation rollers for this, the washing water is continuously filtered through a separator drum. To reduce the iodine content, they use a blanching/cooling system.

In short, they are your partner in seaweed harvesting and processing!