WuHan TaiKe Biotechnology Co., Ltd.

WuHan TaiKe Biotechnology makes agar and agar-derived products from red seaweed. The catalogue covers food-grade agar agar, agar polysaccharide and bacteriological agar for laboratory culture media. Food agar acts as a gelling agent in jellies, confectionery, canned meat and dairy desserts, where it sets firmer and holds at higher temperatures than gelatine.

The company was founded in 2014 and works from the Optics Valley biomedical park in the East Lake high-technology development zone at Wuhan, Hubei. Extraction of seaweed and plant hydrocolloids is its whole business rather than one line among many.