Although this work is never really finished as such, it is nevertheless very encouraging to report that one year on from a very conscious start to more in-depth work in this area, excellent progress has been demonstrated in other seaweed components, in the first instance those based around (seaweed origin) cellulose; the quality of such materials now being realised on a pilot scale is ground breaking in the context of an alginate process being at the core of the total technical effort and as an additional bonus, better quality alginate has also been seen as well.