Interview with Qingdao daily：Seawit 8 micron deep sea microalgae grow into "big business"
It was registered in March 2014, started construction in August 2015 and put into operation at the end of 2016. Qingdao Seawit Life Science., Ltd. Obviously, it is a very "young" high-tech enterprise. However, In the field of finishing functional lipid products such as infant formula, injection grade fat emulsion, food for special medical purposes and special edible oil, it has long been known. Thanks to the full support and participation of Zhu Beiwei, the only academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in the field of national marine food engineering, and Professor Wang Xingguo, the academic leader of the national key disciplines in the field of edible oil in China, Seawit has taken off. The powerful scientific research and innovation team has helped Seawit break the foreign patent technical barriers in a short time and become a "high-tech" in China It is a leader in the supply of "high active nutrients" ingredients.
"Hippocrates, a famous ancient Greek doctor, has a famous saying: let food be medicine, let medicine be food. The mission of Seawit is to make people healthier and smarter. " Bai Changjun told reporters that academicians, well-known professors and engineering and technical experts jointly initiated and invested in the establishment of Seawit because of their common ideal of "upgrading" the food industry, which has been fully nourished in Qingdao's good innovation and entrepreneurship ecology.
The well-known "brain gold" DHA is mainly extracted from tuna, but the global annual output of tuna is very small, far from meeting the market demand. Since 2007, Bai Changjun, Zhu Beiwei, Wang Xingguo and others began to discuss the extraction of DHA from deep-sea microalgae, and proposed the construction of a factory project. In 2010, the state officially approved microalgae DHA as a new resource food, which can be used as a nutritional fortifier for infant formula food. The innovative team realized that the opportunity has come.
Seawit is located in Jimo Life Science Industrial Park. At the beginning of its establishment, Seawit obtained angel investment from Bohai venture capital under Bohai industry. In addition to academician Zhu Beiwei and Professor Wang Xingguo, as well as famous experts and scholars such as Jin qingzhe, Zhou Dayong and Wang Yongfu in the fields of lipid nutrition and lipid chemistry, the company has also joined three senior biomedical doctors. At present, the company's R & D team has systematically developed new technologies for green preparation, purification and application of marine microbial lipids, and successfully developed new technologies such as "accurate and moderate processing" and "microencapsulation secondary embedding" of long carbon chain polyunsaturated fatty acid glycerides. The products of Seawit, haijibao and Qiaobao include microalgae DHA and Mortierella alpina ara (note) It can be widely used in infant formula food, health care products, medical grade fat emulsion, food for special medical purposes, edible oil and other fields, and its comprehensive quality index has reached the international top level.
"We focus on new pharmaceutical and food raw materials, based on biotechnology and other intensive processing technologies, and focus on solving the outstanding problems that hinder the application of high active nutrients, so as to open the door to wide application." Bai Changjun said