SeaStock Begins Commissioning BioFoundryOne at Oakford
SeaStock has started commissioning the first 50-metre photobioreactor tube inside BioFoundryOne, its modular Asparagopsis production facility at Oakford, Western Australia.
Tube 1 holds about 20,000 litres, roughly the combined capacity of the four tanks at Fremantle. BioFoundryOne is designed for five tubes, or about 100,000 litres. At full build the Oakford site is designed to house six BioFoundries with up to 600,000 litres. Tubes can be added as orders grow.
The tubes were designed by Chief Technology Officer Tom Chaney, who ran SeaStock's photobioreactor pilot at Henderson for 12 months. The team is now testing flow, pumping, temperature control, power use and sensors before salt water and live culture go in.
Fremantle stays fully operational. It houses the R-PE extraction laboratory and backs up cultivation while BioFoundryOne ramps up.
