Acadian Seaplants Limited

Acadian Seaplants Limited makes products from marine plants, including edible sea vegetables. One of them is Hana Tsunomata, a dried, multicoloured edible seaweed from the red seaweed Chondrus crispus.

Hana Tsunomata is grown on land at a cultivation site in Charlesville, Nova Scotia. The company describes this as pioneering land-based seaweed cultivation.

The company is based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It is family-owned and began with a single wild-harvested seaweed sold from the founder's home.

It now runs six manufacturing facilities near its cultivation and harvesting sites in Atlantic Canada, Ireland and Scotland.

Beyond food, it makes seaweed-based crop inputs and animal feed. The sea vegetables are one part of a wider seaweed business.

Its food science work is done in-house at a research centre in Nova Scotia. The company has also described researching its markets before developing products.

It has sold into the United States for about thirty years, according to the Globe and Mail. Its export markets in Southeast Asia are not established.

It suits importers and ingredient distributors who want a seaweed ingredient from a producer that cultivates and processes its own supply.