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Kelpi wins Innovate UK Analysis for Innovators grant
Material innovation firm Kelpi – which uses seaweed to create sustainable packaging – has won a major grant from Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation.
The grant-funded innovation project will be carried out in collaboration with the Henry Royce Institute and Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, who will contribute with technical expertise and access to their cutting-edge analytical equipment.
Kelpi hopes the project will give deeper insights into the material properties of seaweed for use as based biomaterials.
Kelpi’s chief scientific officer, Dr. Stefanie Federle, said: “We are truly excited to work on this Analysis for Innovators grant project and solve analytical challenges in collaboration with our partners at the Royce Institute and MHRA.
“This project will enable Kelpi to expand our scientific knowledge of our biomaterials and accelerate the development and commercialisation of novel seaweed-based biomaterials with outstanding water barrier properties.”
Back in June the Bristol-based company announced it had secured £4.35 million in investment to take its seaweed-based technology to market.
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