It’s official! We recently opened EnerGaia Bangladesh Co. Ltd. headquarters in Dhaka, and are proud of our new office space. We have a great conference room, offices, kitchen and a rooftop garden. There is also a gallery of photographs of our work on display so that visitors can learn all about what we do. Lizon, […]
In January the EnerGaia Bangladesh team set up tanks on the rooftop of Sher-e-Bangla University in Dhaka. In February they held a media event for the press to celebrate the start up of the first spirulina production tanks. In March, Ezra went from HQ to help our Bangladesh team finish setting up our main spirulina […]
In Singapore, the new 200 bioreactor spirulina farm that EnerGaia installed with our partner, Ruyi Ventures, has begun operation! As of September there were 80 tanks operating. These would be used to scale-up production from the remaining tanks. In an exciting new development, EnerGaia sent its Operations Manager, Muhammet Doertkardes, to help inoculate the […]
Saumil and Bonnie attended the Fish 2.0 finals at Stanford University. EnerGaia won the Southeast Asia track of the competition. The event catering team helped us to make spirulina smoothies for everyone to try, and we also brought samples of spirulina chips and energy balls which were very well received. This enabled us to show […]
On Wednesday, November 15th the EnerGaia team packed and sent a second shipment to Phuket for the spirulina farm under construction. The truck contained another 380 of our spirulina photobioreactors as well as laboratory equipment and processing equipment including an industrial scale dryer. We are happy to report that thetruck arrived safely and was fully […]
In collaboration with Dr. Sorawit of BIOTEC, under the Thailand National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), we are working on a simple improvement to the air delivery system design of our spirulina production system to try and help prevent any possibility of contamination from entering. Dr. Sorawit is also advising us on some of the […]
At the beginning of the month Saumil visited the new EnerGaia office in Bangladesh and joined our local team to meet with suppliers such as RFL Plastic, implementation partners such as Winrock International and Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), and customers such as EPS. It was a very productive set of meetings, with an MOU being […]
In September, Saumil attended the Sankalp Southeast Asia conference. EnerGaia won the first runner-up award for social businesses at the competition. In addition to catching up with Nicole from DFAT and several of the SecondMuse team members who were attending the conference, Saumil also met some interesting investors and fellow social entrepreneurs who were doing […]
On Sunday, September 17th the EnerGaia team packed a truck with 500 of our spirulina photobioreactors which went to a new farm currently under construction in Phuket with our partner, G-Food. We are happy to report that the truck arrived safely and was fully unloaded the following morning. The new farm expects to have its […]
On Sunday, September 17th the EnerGaia team packed a truck with 500 of our spirulina photobioreactors which went to a new farm currently under construction in Phuket with our partner, G-Food. We are happy to report that the truck arrived safely and was fully unloaded the following morning. The new farm expects to have its […]
