Norway establishes new research centre to advance seaweed culture

SINTEF, the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia, has been working for some years to develop a national seaweed culture program. Now SINTEF has established the Norwegian Seaweed Technology Centre in its Fisheries and Aquaculture Institute near Trondheim, Norway. A staff of about a dozen people is devoted to the centre's main objective: the development of commercial-scale cultivation of seaweed for the production of biofuels.