Northern coast · Sri Lanka
Cut by hand, dried by sun.
Raw Kappaphycus alvarezii, grown on staked line in unpolluted water.
Indicative ranges for the species · pending lab report
01 · The water
Where it grows decides what it is.
The northern coast gives this crop the two things it cannot be forced to have: water between 25 and 30 degrees, and a salinity that holds steady through the season. Seaweed is not improved after harvest. It is either grown in the right water or it is not.
Ours is grown in sea that carries no industrial discharge, on line staked in shallow ground where the light reaches. Nothing is added to the crop while it grows and nothing is added to it after.
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A field, except the field is the sea.
Unpolluted sea
Grown off the northern coast, on ground that carries no industrial discharge.
Cut by hand
No machinery and no chemistry, from the line through to the bale.
One species, sorted
Kappaphycus alvarezii only, sorted by hand before it is pressed.
Coastal families
The people who grow the crop are the people who process it.
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No machinery, no chemistry.
Cut by hand from the line. Washed, laid out on raised racks, and dried in the sun until it holds. Sorted by hand, then baled. The method is old because it works, and because it is what keeps the crop clean enough to sell as raw.
It also means the people who grow it are the people who process it. The work stays in the coastal families who do it.
03 · The species
Kappaphycus
alvarezii
Traded as Eucheuma cottonii. It is the kappa-carrageenan species, the one used where a firm, brittle gel is wanted: dairy, processed meat, pet food, and the gelling end of personal care.
If you are sourcing lambda carrageenan you want E. spinosum, and we would rather tell you that now than after a sample.
Full specification
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Placeholder04 · Capacity
One thousand tonnes a year.
That is what the operation produces annually, and it is the honest ceiling rather than an aspiration. Against a requirement we will tell you what we can commit to and by when, including where a volume would need a season's notice.
Tell us the tonnage, the destination port and the Incoterm you work on, and you will get a straight answer.
05 · Standing
What we claim, and what backs it.
The crop supports coastal families directly. Certification document to be published here.
Registration and endorsement documents to be published here.
Issued per shipment. Specimen to be published here.
Tell us what you need, by the tonne.
Volume, destination port, intended application and your Incoterm. That is enough for us to come back with something real.
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