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Alginor ASA is a Norwegian marine biotech company developing a fully transparent, traceable and integrated value chain for commercial harvesting and biorefining of Laminaria hyperborea for production of kelp-based ingredients for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications.

Alginor was founded in 2014 with an aim to establish Europe’s first biorefinery for marine resources. Today, we focus solely on the brown macroalga Laminaria hyperborea, which is found in abundance in the North Atlantic. We are headquartered in Haugesund, Norway. Our production facilities are located on Husøy near Avaldsnes, Norway, in close proximity to the marine kelp forests.

We are developing sustainable and scalable harvesting and biorefining methods for production of kelp-based ingredients for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications. Our objective is to achieve total utilisation of the kelp downstream and become a leading, large-scale manufacturer and supplier of high-quality and unique kelp-based ingredients to a global customer base consisting mainly of end-user production com...

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