About NuFoods

Building a New Zealand microalgae ingredient business

NuFoods Biotech is a Rolleston-based biotechnology company developing high-value microalgae ingredients for nutrition markets.

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What we are building

From New Zealand biology to high-value ingredients

NuFoods brings together controlled microalgae cultivation, managed lighting, downstream processing, product development and commercial expertise to create high-value nutrition ingredients from New Zealand. The objective is straightforward: produce ingredients that customers want to use and can confidently qualify for their products.

Why Canterbury

A biotechnology base in Canterbury

Canterbury gives NuFoods access to science, engineering, food-production expertise and export infrastructure.

For NuFoods, that creates a practical base to develop products, engineer production and connect with customers, researchers and industry partners.

How we work

How we are building NuFoods

Product-first development

Start with the ingredient and customer application, then build the production system around what the product needs.

Customer-informed development

Product priorities reflect the specifications, applications and supply requirements customers actually value.

Integrated technology platform

PBR cultivation, managed LED lighting, process control and downstream processing are developed as one connected system.

Commercial reality

Biology, product quality, operability, energy demand and economics all need to work together.

Leadership

Built across strategy, science, operations, finance and commercial development

Working across the ecosystem

Science, industry and market

Biotechnology is multidisciplinary. NuFoods works with scientific, engineering, regulatory, commercial and industry specialists across product development and production.

Interested in working with NuFoods?

We are interested in relevant conversations around microalgae ingredients, applications and supply requirements.

Talk to NuFoods