Newton Fund - PhycoPigment: Novel manufacturing methods for high value pigments products from microalgae

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PhycoPigment is a collaboration of academics and industry in UK and Mexico that aims to develop novelproduction technologies for a range of high value protein based water soluble pigments from microalgae fromlaboratory up to demonstration. This will involve the investigating microalgal production methods in a range ofphotobioreactors with innovative enhanced induction processes including manipulation nutrient and light, pre-or post-harvest. Novel environmentally friendly extraction and purification procedures will be developed basedon the use of membrane technology. The products will be as a natural additives in a range of foods, beveragesand nutraceutical products. The resultant demonstration scale process will be evaluated for its economic, socialand environmental benefits as applied in Mexico and the UK and will be a firm foundation for impact anddevelopment in the longer term.