From Executive Director:

ABO Summit 2025 will be held at Arizona State University Student Union in Tempe, Arizona on October 19-21, 2025! Mark your calendars!! Below you will find the links to information on registration, submitting an abstract, become an exhibitor and sponsorship.

ABO’s EPC Committee hosts Washington, D.C. Fly In to Relaunch the Algae Caucus

ABO Member Companies – GWT, Inc., Brightwave LLC, AECOM, Algaewheel, Global Algae Innovations, Myland, Namaka Algae and Phitec participate in the Washington, D.C. Fly In.

ABO’s government relations committee, the Executive Policy Committee, participated in a Washington, D.C. Fly-In on April 28-29. During this Fly-In, over 10 ABO members met with congressional staff to re-launch the Algae Caucus during a formal lunch presentation on April 28th in the Rayburn Congressional Office Building.

For the afternoon of April 28th and full day April 29th, individual ABO member companies visited individual congressional offices to meet with their congressperson and staff. Over 15 congressional offices were visited, and ABO members promoted the key priorities of the Algae Caucus. As the Algae Caucus is re-launched, the ABO will keep ABO members up to date on key initiatives and opportunities to participate in our grassroots lobbying efforts.

Earthrise Nutritionals Ground Opening of New Algae Cultivation Facility in California

DIC Corporation’s U.S. subsidiary, Earthrise Nutritionals, LLC, a long time ABO Gold Member, and one of the leading spirulina manufacturing companies based in Southern California, commenced operations in March 2025 at a new edible algae cultivation facility that was built with the goal of realizing sustainable smart farming. Products from the new facility, investment in which amounted to approximately $8 Million, comply with California’s food safety regulations, considered among the most stringent in the world.

State-of-the-art technologies

To realize sustainable smart farming, Earthrise Nutritionals has deployed the following five

state-of-the-art technologies for the first time at its new production facility –

• a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system that centrally manages cultivation for the entire facility, which has a total area of approximately 420,000 square meters.
• collaborative robot arms that both reduce costs and ensure safe operations.
• an AI-driven system for assessing algae growth.
• a water control and management system that simultaneously achieves zero discharge of industrial wastewater off-site and outstanding product quality.
• a drone-based facility analysis system.

Sustainable, environment-friendly production

As a photosynthetic organism, Spirulina carries out photosynthesis, as it converts CO 2 into the chemical energy necessary to fuel its growth. Earthrise Nutritionals is committed to sustainable, environment-friendly production, using more than 1,200 tons of refined CO 2 procured from external sources annually to cultivate Spirulina and satisfying more than 50% of its energy needs with renewable energy provided by Imperial Irrigation District (IID), a public corporation that supplies water and power to local farmland. The company also uses state-of-the-art technologies to produce LINABLUE®, a natural blue food coloring made with a pigment extracted from Spirulina using water, enabling it to achieve zero discharge of industrial wastewater off-site.

The DIC Group views sustainability as a key aspect of its management policy. As such, it works actively to help address environmental issues, including by attaining zero discharge of industrial wastewater off-site at its algae cultivation facility in the People’s Republic of China, as well as at its new U.S. facility. Going forward, the Group will continue striving to provide superior environment-friendly products to its customers around the world.

Read DIC Corporation spirulina study publication in Tropical Medicine and Health, the official journal of the Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine here Discovering a New Spirulina-Based Environment-Friendly, Sustainable Strategy for Suppressing Parasitic Infection | News | DIC Corporation

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Year-at-a-Glance (Registration for the following webinars will open soon)

July 17, 2025 (1:00pm CDT)

W2J consortium

Presented by Lou Brown at LANL

August 21, 2025 (1:00pm CDT)

Algafilm wastewater treatment

Presented by Ahren Britton

September 18, 2025 (1:00pm CDT)

AZCATI presented by Everett Eustance

November 20, 2025 (1:00pm CDT

Bringing your Algae Product to the US Dietary Supplement Market

Presented by Jen Johanson with Cyanotech

December 18, 2025 – (1 PM CDT)

Grants Refresher – Writing and Administering your Grants

Presented by Jack Reagan with UHY