Desert shrimp farmer National Prawn Company has signed a collaboration agreement with Germany's BASF to work on algae production near its site in western Saudi Arabia.
Both companies bring different expertise to the table -- NPC has developed knowledge in designing, building and operating a large system of man-made-lakes for the production of shrimp and researching new algae species while BASF has developed technologies for growing and harvesting algae in open-lake-systems and in further processing algae biomass into products used in beverages and dietary supplements.
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