{"id":638341,"date":"2026-10-06T19:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/638341\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T19:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:32:16","slug":"algae-supplement-firm-gets-2-5m-boost-for-grangemouth-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/638341\/","title":{"rendered":"Algae supplement firm gets \u00a32.5m boost for Grangemouth plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A biotech company that makes supplements from whisky by-products has been given \u00a32.5m by the Scottish National Investment Bank to boost manufacturing at Grangemouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MiAlgae said it planned to more than double its workforce from 60 to 156 by the end of 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Edinburgh-based firm broke ground on a new commercial-scale manufacturing facility on the site of the former oil refinery in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jane Reoch, executive director of innovation at the Scottish National Investment Bank, described the firm as &#8220;one of Scotland&#8217;s most promising biotech companies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MiAlgae was shortlisted for the Prince of Wales&#8217; Earthshot Prize in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its process involves growing microalgae, which is rich in omega-3, in by-products of the whisky production process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That allows the creation of fish-free supplements, which MiAlgae claims helps to protect oceans and fish stocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A biotech company that makes supplements from whisky by-products has been given \u00a32.5m by the Scottish National Investment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,85,46,543],"class_list":["post-638341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}