Industry Events Events listing MAY
24 – 26/04/18 Seafood Expo Global 2018 Belgium www.seafoodexpo.com/global 29/05/18 – 01/06/18 IPACK-IMA 2018 Italy www.ipack-ima.com/en/
JUNE
03 – 05/06/18 PIX/AMC 2018 Australia http://pixamc.com.au 04 – 06/06/18 7th International Dietary Fibre Conference The Netherlands www.dietaryfibre.org/en/ 06 – 09/06/18 Bio Brazil Fair / Biofach America Latina Brazil www.biobrazilfair.com 19 – 21/06/18 Seafood Summit 2018 Spain www.seafoodsummit.org/ 20 – 22/06/18 VIV Europe The Netherlands www.viveurope.nl/en/Bezoeker.aspx
July
03 – 05/07/18 Seawork International 2018 UK www.seawork.com/ 04 - 06/07/18 Indo Livestock 2018 Indonesia www.indolivestock.com 09 – 13/07/18 Freshwater Crayfish 2018 USA www.freshwatercrayfish.org 11 – 13/07/18 Fi Asia China 2018 China www.figlobal.com/fi-asia-china/
The future is green: International algae experts at one of the most important summits of the European algae world In the run-up to the ‘8th European Algae Industry Summit’ which took place in Vienna from April 25-27,2018, 70 international algae experts took the opportunity to study the patented technologies of ecoduna. Silvia Fluch, COO ecoduna, and Johann Karmel, CEO ecoduna, gave a tour presenting the visiting experts the production site of the technology leader. Commodities of open-production plants from Asia and America have dominated the market – these ‘open-pound quality’ products, however, are often heavily contaminated due to their uncontrolled growing conditions. As a result, Asian goods, which in many cases do not meet the legal standards in Europe despite offering various quality certificates, are not suitable for being further processed into food products. The patented process allows the production of microalgae with a tremendously improved quality: ecoduna’s microalgae proliferate within a high-purity environment in a closed, largely contamination-free system – a crucial factor that is especially appreciated by demanding customers. The plant can produce various types of microalgae fitting the
15 – 18/07/18 IFT 18 USA www.iftevent.org/ 26 – 28/07/18 Livestock Taiwan 2018 Taiwan www.livestocktaiwan.com
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respective customer requirements. 10 years earlier, neither algae as biomass nor products based on algae were a topic talked about. Trends around ingredients such as omega-3 fatty acids have also raised the awareness level in terms of algae. Today, microalgae are traded as coveted ingredients: from fertiliser, to animal feed, to additives for wastewater treatment – the variety of applications is already considerable. The main topics of the eighth ‘European Algae Industry Summit’ combined commercial, technical, and research perspectives with the needs of different final consumers. Verdelho sees a big difference between the needs of multinational corporations, start-ups, and smaller businesses, depending on the location, "Corporations in the U.S. are predominantly commercially driven, whereas European ones are more focused on research and technology. Compared with the Asian continent, which is very productrelated in its development, Europe is more oriented towards results from an academic environment and also pushes the idea of innovation."