Seaweed Farming Market Companies
Cargill, Incorporated, ASL, Qingdao Bright Moon Seaweed Group Co., LTD., The Seaweed Company, AQUAGRI PROCESSING PRIVATE LIMITED, and others are the major companies in the seaweed farming market. To fulfill the growing demand for seaweed products and their diverse variety of applications, companies that wish to succeed in the seaweed farming sector should place a high priority on value-added processing, creative production techniques, sustainable practices, strategic partnerships, and market expansion.
List of Key Players in the Market:
- Cargill, Incorporated
- ASL
- DuPont
- Qingdao Waysail Ocean Technology Co., Ltd
- The Seaweed Company
- AQUAGRI PROCESSING PRIVATE LIMITED
- Maine Coast Sea Vegetables
- Qingdao Seawin Biotech Group Co., Ltd.
- Qingdao bright moon seaweed group co., LTD.
- OCEAN HARVEST TECHNOLOGY Group plc
- CP Kelco U.S. Inc.
- Seaweed Solutions AS
- Seasol
- Gelymar
- COMPO EXPERT GMBH
Recent News:
- In January 2025, The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a USD 25 million project to grow seaweed in deep waters for the production of energy and industrial goods. The initiative, called the Harnessing Autonomy for Energy Joint Ventures Offshore (HAEJO) program, will use the largest ocean domain in the world—the United States—to create a large-scale seaweed farming industry. The program aims to improve deep-water seaweed cultivation by working with South Korea, which has experience with seaweed farming, diversify U.S. energy biomass production sources in U.S. waters, and support maritime enterprises.
- In January 2023, Amazon funded the world's first commercial-scale seaweed farm, which was located between offshore wind turbines (as seen in the computer-generated image above, which was supplied by Smartland landscape architecture). The initiative, which is expected to begin by the end of this year, is being managed by a team of scientific academics and seaweed sector partners under the auspices of the non-profit organization North Sea Farmers (NSF). The consortium wants North Sea Farm 1 to set the standard for offshore seaweed farming around the world.
- In December 2023, The Ocean Supercluster (OSC) in Canada unveiled the AI-Driven Sensors for Seaweed Measurement Project. In collaboration with the seaweed farming company HoldFast, based in St. John's, NL, and the ocean monitoring company Coastal Carbon, based in Kitchener, Ontario, the project aims to develop a small, non-intrusive, AI-enabled sensor for online remote biomass monitoring of seaweed growth. This project will have a significant positive impact on the broader seaweed farming community in Canada.