The seaweed hydrocolloid industry: 2016 updates, requirements, and outlook
The seaweed hydrocolloid industry: 2016 updates, requirements, and outlook
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DOI：
10.1007/s10811-017-1144-0
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发表时间：
2017-12-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Rudolph, Brian
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作者：
Porse, Hans;Rudolph, Brian
由琼脂、藻酸盐和卡拉胶提取物组成的海藻亲水胶体行业继续以每年 2-3% 的速度增长，亚太地区日益主导该行业的原材料和制造方面。还从历史角度对海藻原材料的可用性进行了地理概述，包括价格和消费、制造能力以及提取物的利用和销售。介绍了当前和未来的一些行业动态、要求和不断变化的结构，例如印度尼西亚在琼脂和角叉菜胶海藻养殖中日益占据主导地位、随机实施海藻收获限制或禁止出口、创建全球海藻认证标准以及海藻与未来全球人口的供需动态。该行业日益商品化，中国已成为所有类型海藻亲水胶体中的一个重要因素，在许多情况下是主导因素，并且还谈到了对此的一些解释以及该行业其他公司的战略反应。还介绍了海藻产业需要科学界帮助的一些领域。主要挑战是养殖品种中海藻普遍退化——如何改进和恢复菌株以及养殖技术是否可以进一步改进？总体趋势是可持续发展，尽管海藻种植和收获可以是可持续的，但人们对开发更绿色的工艺感兴趣。
The seaweed hydrocolloid industry, comprising agar, alginate, and carrageenan extracts, continues to grow in the order of 2-3% per year with the Asia-Pacific region increasingly dominating the raw material and manufacturing aspects of the industry. Geographic overviews, also in a historical perspective, of seaweed raw material availability including prices and consumption, manufacturing capacities, and utilizations and sales of extracts is presented. Some current and future industry dynamics, requirements, and changing structures, e.g., Indonesia's increasingly dominant role within farming of agar and carrageenan-bearing seaweed species, randomly imposing of seaweed harvest restrictions or ban on exports, creation of a global certification standard for seaweed, and supply-demand dynamics for seaweed versus future global population are presented. The industry is increasingly being commoditized and China has become an important and, in many cases, dominant factor within all types of seaweed hydrocolloids and some explanations to this and strategic response by the rest of the industry is also touched upon. Also presented are some areas where the seaweed industry needs help from the scientific community. The main challenge is the ongoing general seaweed deterioration experienced in cultivated species-how are the strains to be improved and revitalized and can cultivation techniques be improved further? There is a general trend towards sustainability and, although seaweed cultivation and harvest can be sustainable, there is interest in the development of greener processes.