Macrocarbon, a seaweed startup, has launched in the Canary Islands and is ready to develop algae farms cultivating sargassum for use as a climate-friendly raw material for the chemical industry.
The company MACROCARBON SL has just been founded in Las Palmas, on the Canary Islands. It is a spin-off from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and .
In Las Palmas, Canary Islands, the company MACROCARBON SL was recently founded – a spinoff of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), which is developing aquafarms for the macroalgae Sargassum. This algae not only sequesters large amounts of CO2 but can also support the production of new feedstocks for the chemical industry.
Germany's SPRIN-D challenge ‘Carbon-to-Value' will grant five projects an initial €600,000 to explore breakthrough ways to remove large quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere and transform it into long-lasting products. Click to read more.
Today SPRIN-D announced their selection of C-Cause Consortium, a project partnership led by The Alfred Wegener Institute, Carbonwave, GEOMAR and Seafields, as one of five projects chosen for their ‘Carbon-to-Value' challenge.