Norwegian company FMC Biopolymer converts seaweed to alginate for use in thousands of products with an advanced 24 hour chemical process. ABB has supplied process automation, motors and drives to ...

The slick surface of seaweeds such as seaweed and kelp is attributed to alginate, a mucilaginous substance, which may prove ...

The seaweed releases a moisturising alginate gel that’s packed full of hydration but also gives off a gloopy kind of texture that takes a while to adjust to. But once you’ve gotten over the ...

On 30 September, the Stella McCartney Paris show featured a tank top crafted from Kelsun, a next-generation seaweed fibre ...

If those small molecules are sugars, the polymer is called a polysaccharide. Sodium alginate is a polysaccharide found in brown seaweed. It consists of long chains of tiny clusters of sugars. On a ...

Three Tokyo high school students have created recyclable gloves using a fiber found in seaweed slime ... into an aqueous solution of sodium alginate and then into an aqueous solution of ...

In water, jelly bombs release a goo made from sodium alginate, which comes from a mineral-rich seaweed. LUSH's factory in Poole has around 800 members of staff. They made over 50 million items ...