Partners

Brief biography of partner: 

AquaFood is an exciting new company born from years of innovative research at Chalmers University. They’re on a mission to revolutionize the seafood industry by transforming underused fish resources into valuable, nutritious products.

By making the most of every catch, AquaFood aims to create a more sustainable seafood industry, where no fish goes underutilized, and every part serves a purpose.

Partner´s Role

AquaFood will participate in pilot trials and technological development of biorefineries, develop a business case for collagen, and be a part in LCAs.

Brief biography of partner: 

The Division of Food and Nutrition Science (FNS) at Chalmers addresses major societal challenges related to sustainable food production, nutrition and health. Among our core competences is the development of technologies for aquatic and agricultural biomass upcycling, often with a biorefinery approach, and with a particular focus on proteins. On the aquatic side, FNS has long experience from valorisation of fish side streams and seaweed using a variety of fractionation and characterization principles

Partner´s Role

Chalmers (FNS) is leader of AP1: Biorefinery and will within this AP be responsible for two of the four selected cases. The first case targets new routes to seaweed biorefining with the aim to efficiently co-recover proteins, polysaccharides and other high value molecules for e.g., food ingredients, biomaterials and biomedical uses. In the second case, innovative refinery technologies will be developed to recover marine collagens from fish side streams for nutricosmetic, nutraceutical and biomedical applications.

Brief biography of partner: 

Feldt’s Fisk & Skaldjur AB was started in 1991 by Lennart Feld, the company is still owned and run by the family, now with son Martin Feldt as CEO.  Today, Feldt’s is one of the leading fish and shellfish suppliers in Sweden.

Partner´s Role

They will contribute with residual currents, participate in the work with LCA and technoeconomics, and form ownership.

Brief biography of partner: 

Fyrbodals Kommunalförbund is an association of 14 municipalities in west Sweden. The association works for regional growth and sustainable development. This is carried out by running joint development projects, facilitating networks, spreading ideas and exchange of experiences among the member municipalities, companies, and organizations.

Partner´s Role

An important part of Fyrbodals operations is to work proactively for new investments and establishing of new business in the region. As partner in Marefine we contribute with our knowledge, contacts, and networks to find the best location and facilitate the establishment process.

Brief biography of partner: 

Innovatum Science Park is an innovation hub in Västra Götaland, Sweden, supporting sustainable growth and technological development, particularly in the marine bioeconomy and sustainable industry sectors. Innovatum connects businesses, academia, and public stakeholders to encourage collaboration and address shared challenges. With expertise in system-wide issues and an established network Innovatum helps build new value chains and sustainable solutions. Through involvement in regional and national projects, Innovatum create innovations that benefit both industry and the environment.

Partner´s Role

In the Marefine project, Innovatum acts as a central connector for the marine industries, bridging the gap between businesses, public stakeholders, and academina in Västra Götaland. Innovatum facilitates collaboration to address key challenges and foster innovation leveraging its extensice network and expertise in marine bioeconomy systems. They represent the needs of both regions and industries in managing residual streams and will lead WP5 while actively contributing to WP4, ensuring the creation of value-added products and processes.

Brief biography of partner: 

Nordic SeaFarm is at forefront of democratizing seaweed by growing high value species at massive scale in the ocean. Research & development is in our DNA and is why we have successfully completed multiple EU-research projects over the years and why we continuously break through with new innovative ways of farming seaweed at scale in the ocean.

Today, Nordic SeaFarm is one of Europe’s leading producers of sustainably farmed seaweed and works with a range of stakeholders to develop new products and services. We have control over the whole value chain, from spores to product, and only produce the highest quality product.

Partner´s Role

Nordic SeaFarm (NSF)is interested in how seaweeds and side streams from the harvest and preprocessing can be utilized for high-value products. NSF will contribute to MAREFINE by providing side streams to the biorefinery, participate in the work with LCA,  techno-economy, and innovation/business development.

Brief biography of partner: 

Ragn-Sells is one of Sweden’s leading companies in recycling and the environment. We are part of the Ragn-Sells Group and are also present in Norway, Denmark and Estonia. We transform waste into clean raw materials so they can be used over and over again. Ragn-Sells Havbruk AS with operation in Norway is our main representative of Ragn-Sells Group for the MAREFINE project, with the core business of logistics solutions for collection of sludge and silage from aquaculture, which is sent for production of biogas and fertilizer for agriculture. These services ensure good fish welfare and recovery of important resources.

Partner´s Role

Ragn-Sells provide the project with input and insight on waste characteristic, supply, and logistic from our experiences in handling side streams from aquaculture industry.

Brief biography of partner: 

RISE is an independent, state-owned research institute. As an innovation partner for every part of society, we help develop technologies, products, services and processes that contribute to a sustainable world and a competitive business community. We do this in collaboration with and on behalf of companies, academia and the public sector. We also have a special focus on supporting small and medium-sized enterprises in their innovation processes.

Partner´s Role

RISE will act as the project leader and coordinator, contributing by providing expertise in biorefinery processes and pilot scaling, developing and evaluating fiber-based materials, 3D bioprinting, and formulations, assessing the environmental impact of marine residual streams, offering process chemical expertise, and understanding policy processes and public sector functions.

Brief biography of partner: 

Swedish Algae Factory produces Algica, a nanoporous silica material with applications in skincare, sun protection, and solar panels, through climate-positive cultivation of diatoms in land-based greenhouse farming within a recirculating system (Kungshamn). Looking ahead to utilizing the biomass that is currently not being used.

Partner´s Role

SAFAB will contribute with residual streams, participate in the work with LCA and techno-economics, ownership form, and business opportunities.

Brief biography of partner: 

Västkustfisk SVC AB is owned by Svenska Västkustfiskarnas Centralförbund (SVC) which is a membership organization that unites professional fishers on the West Coast.

Västkustfisk SVC AB includes several companies, such as Sweden Seafood, Sweden Shellfish AB, and Sweden Pelagic AB, which generate various types of residual streams, such as shrimp shells and by-products from the filleting of herring and salmon. Today, these are used for low-value purposes, and we have a strong interest in increasing their value through the production of, for example, ingredients for food or materials

Partner´s Role

The activities of the project align very well with their long-term vision.