Global accolade underscores Kelpi’s position as leading science-based innovator

Kelpi won the packaging category of a Europe-wide Seaweed Innovation Challenge hosted by sector champions North Sea Farmers.

170 trillion plastic particles are afloat in our oceans - representing a huge rise in plastic pollution. “Clean-up is futile” if production continues at current rates, say scientists.

Kelpi spent last week in Africa working on a UK Aid-funded initiative to mitigate plastic pollution - setting out how our bio-materials can displace the fossil fuel plastics that are washing up on beaches.

The funding will enable advanced piloting of revolutionary new packaging for food and cosmetics sectors to avoid using fossil fuel plastics.

Kelpi’s packaging biomaterials feature in BBC TV news coverage of single-use plastics ban

Kelpi is today unveiled as one of Tech Nation’s Net Zero 3.0 cohort of the UK’s leading climate tech scaleups

From The Hollywood Reporter and Vogue magazine to Popular Science and Bioplastic News, Kelpi made the news this week as a finalist in the TOM FORD Plastic Innovation Prize.

Kelpi has been unveiled today as one of 8 finalists in the world’s most prestigious plastic innovation competition.

Yesterday’s historic UN treaty is a “triumph by planet Earth over single-use plastics”.

Kelpi’s growth means we’re hiring again. We want to hear from people with commercial skills and experience in packaging innovation and ideally a track record in sustainable materials.

The rising tide of marine plastic pollution constitutes a planetary emergency - an existential environmental threat on which the UN must now act.

So Kelpi successfully closed our pre-seed funding round. Here are a couple of things we learned along the way.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Kelpi has applied to ⁠the Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize for the chance to scale our technology as a solution to thin-film plastic waste

Sustainable biotech innovator Kelpi has today secured both a private sector seed round and public grant funding to advance its pioneering technology creating bioplastics from seaweed.

Kelpi is looking for a forward-thinking polymer chemist to work at the leading edge of sustainable technology development, joining an innovative, award-winning and well-funded team.