Blue Marble Energy, Bionavitas to produce renewable chemicals from algae

In Washington state, Blue Marble Energy and Bionavitas announced a  partnership in which Blue Marble Energy will produce high-margin biochemicals from microalgae supplied by Bionavitas. Bionavitas, based in Redmond, Washington, has developed Light Immersion Technology that enables the rapid, cost-effective production of algae for environmental remediation, manufacturing health and nutraceutical products, and producing biofuels.

Blue Marble Energy, based in Seattle, has developed a proprietary technology to produce a wide array of high-margin, carbon neutral specialty biochemicals from organic biomass. These biochemicals include esters, a group of chemicals used in food, fragrance, plastics, resins and adhesives.

Blue Marble Energy is a Seattle-based company utilizing unique bacterial consortia to produce specialty biochemicals and renewable natural gas.  BME’s proprietary AGATE (Acid, Gas, and Ammonia Targeted Extraction) system processes nearly any organic feedstock, utilizing cultured strains of bacteria to perform fermentation (like brewing beer) to produce a wide variety of biochemicals.  In addition to these biochemicals, the AGATE system generates renewable natural gas as a byproduct.

Bionavitas is a Redmond-based bioscience company committed to revolutionizing the clean technology industry. Bionavitas harnesses the power of algae for biofuel production, health and nutraceutical products and environmental remediation. The company’s Light Immersion Technology addresses the problem of algae “self-shading” by allowing more light to penetrate the algae biomass.

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