Updates from ALBON
Pilot results, awards, field visits, and company milestones.
Great to have ALBON pitch at the Australian Venture Summit 2026, hosted by the Australian Investm...
Great to have ALBON pitch at the Australian Venture Summit 2026, hosted by the Australian Investment Council, two weeks ago. A highlight for our team was seeing Co-Founder & CEO John Phipps take the stage as part of t...
A little over a week on from The Melt ENGAGE 2026, and we're still feeling energised by the conve...
A little over a week on from The Melt ENGAGE 2026, and we're still feeling energised by the conversations, ideas and connections that came out of three huge days across Muswellbrook and Newcastle. First, huge thanks t...
Congratulations to Samuel McKid, ALBON's May '26 Intern of the Month!
Congratulations to Samuel McKid, ALBON's May '26 Intern of the Month! Sam has played a key role in developing the electrical systems behind our IBC-scale wastewater treatment platform, taking ownership of critical des...
ALBON has been named a finalist in not one, but two categories at the 2026 NSW iAwards.
ALBON has been named a finalist in not one, but two categories at the 2026 NSW iAwards. 🏆 Start-Up 🏆 Sustainability & Environmental A fantastic milestone for our team and another reminder that we're tackling a probl...
BBQ edition for this month's ALBON team lunch at our Sydney Knowledge Hub base.
BBQ edition for this month's ALBON team lunch at our Sydney Knowledge Hub base. Well done to our R&D team for all their hard work over the past month across lab testing, process development and pilot planning. It felt...
We're excited to share that ALBON has been selected as a semi-finalist in the 2026 Australian Tec...
We're excited to share that ALBON has been selected as a semi-finalist in the 2026 Australian Technologies Competition. We're proud to be included in the Water, Food & Agribusiness cohort alongside Farmbot Monitoring...
ALBON is strengthening our in-house water quality testing capability with advanced lab equipment ...
ALBON is strengthening our in-house water quality testing capability with advanced lab equipment supplied by Hach. Accurate testing is essential to developing effective wastewater treatment systems. With new equipment...
Exciting to see ALBON included in the 2026 United Nations STI Solutions Book, selected from more ...
Exciting to see ALBON included in the 2026 United Nations STI Solutions Book, selected from more than 900 global submissions. 🌍 The publication recognised ALBON's modular algae-bacteria wastewater treatment system fo...
Great to have William Wulff representing the ALBON team at The Melt ENGAGE 2026 in Muswellbrook n...
Great to have William Wulff representing the ALBON team at The Melt ENGAGE 2026 in Muswellbrook next week. An exciting opportunity to connect with customers, investors and strategic partners as we continue building mo...
ALBON was awarded Runner-Up at the MIT Climate and Energy Prize Grand Finals, receiving an A$14,0...
ALBON was awarded Runner-Up at the MIT Climate and Energy Prize Grand Finals, receiving an A$14,000 grant to support the next stage of our wastewater treatment technology. Tom Bessell pitched ALBON's work developing a...
We're excited to launch the new ALBON website!
We're excited to launch the new ALBON website! As we continue to grow, we wanted a platform that better reflects our mission, technology, and long-term vision. The new website gives a clearer look at how ALBON helps a...
ALBON was proud to be selected to exhibit at the 2026 Office of the NSW Chief Scientist & Enginee...
ALBON was proud to be selected to exhibit at the 2026 Office of the NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer NSW Commercialisation Showcase, with co-founder Tom Bessell representing the team on the day. It was a great opportuni...
A big thank you to the ALBON R&D team for the hard work over the past few weeks.
A big thank you to the ALBON R&D team for the hard work over the past few weeks. We've been making some really strong technical progress lately across the lab, pilot development, system design and customer work, so it...
Congratulations to Jack Gowing, ALBON's Intern of the Month for April!
Congratulations to Jack Gowing, ALBON's Intern of the Month for April! As part of his placement program through the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT, Jack has made outstanding contributions to the iterative design, d...
A big thank you to Jestin Iykkara as he wraps up his time with ALBON.
A big thank you to Jestin Iykkara as he wraps up his time with ALBON. Jestin first joined us through his University of Sydney placement and went on to make a meaningful contribution to the team over the past year and...
MIT Climate & Energy Prize Runner Up Finalist
ALBON competed at the MIT Climate and Energy Prize Grand Finals at Greentown Labs, Boston – representing the Asia & Oceania region among 12 global finalists.
Excited to share that ALBON has been named one of 6 finalists in the London Business School Clean...
Excited to share that ALBON has been named one of 6 finalists in the London Business School Cleantech Challenge 2026, Europe's largest university cleantech competition. We'll be pitching our modular algae-bacteria was...
Our March Quarterly Newsletter is out - and it's been a big one.
Our March Quarterly Newsletter is out - and it's been a big one. This quarter, we secured lab space at the Sydney Knowledge Hub (University of Sydney), won Best Student Project at the NSW Australian Water Association...
Will Wulff promoted to Principal Engineer
Will Wulff has been promoted to Principal Engineer at ALBON following his contributions to PLC system design and validation, prototyping, and photobioreactor development.
Field visit: The Little Big Dairy Co., Dubbo
Tom Bessell visited The Little Big Dairy Co. in Dubbo as ALBON prepares for its first smaller-scale paid dairy pilot later this year. Site visits like this are invaluable as we co-design our commercial deployment.
Tom Bessell wins NSW Australian Water Association Student Water Prize
ALBON co-founder Tom Bessell has been awarded the 2026 NSW Australian Water Association Student Water Prize for his work on algae-based agri-food wastewater treatment.
We're excited to be exhibiting at Big Tech Big Ideas in Dubbo on 26-27 March.
We're excited to be exhibiting at Big Tech Big Ideas in Dubbo on 26-27 March. At ALBON, we're building modular wastewater treatment solutions for agri-food facilities that help lower treatment and disposal costs, impr...
We're back from AgriFutures evokeAG in Melbourne with a full notebook and lots of momentum.
We're back from AgriFutures evokeAG in Melbourne with a full notebook and lots of momentum. We spent most of our time exhibiting in Startup Alley - great to see a few familiar faces and meet plenty of new people in th...
We're under a month out from AgriFutures evokeAG 2026, where ALBON has been picked as one of 30 s...
We're under a month out from AgriFutures evokeAG 2026, where ALBON has been picked as one of 30 startups in Startup Alley. John Phipps and Tom Bessell will be in Melbourne for the week, meeting operators, ag-tech inve...
We're excited to share that ALBON has been selected for Startup Alley at AgriFutures evokeAG 2026.
We're excited to share that ALBON has been selected for Startup Alley at AgriFutures evokeAG 2026. EvokeAG is the Asia-Pacific region's leading agrifood innovation event, bringing together producers, operators, invest...
December 2025 quarterly update: commercial pipeline, pilot results, and next steps
It's been a strong quarter at ALBON – commercial pipeline advancing, pilot results confirmed by independent environmental officers, and our first paid dairy deployment in design. A summary of where we are and what's next.
We're excited to welcome ALBON's Summer Placement Interns and the Jacaranda Flame Consulting - Un...
We're excited to welcome ALBON's Summer Placement Interns and the Jacaranda Flame Consulting - University of Sydney team! This year's placement intake was highly competitive, and we're proud to be working with a group...
We found out last month that ALBON has been named a State Finalist for Best Startup at the 2025 B...
We found out last month that ALBON has been named a State Finalist for Best Startup at the 2025 Business NSW Awards. It's a nice milestone for our team - especially while we're out in the field building and testing th...
ALBON recently had the privilege of pitching at the Green Light Showcase, hosted by the Deep Gree...
ALBON recently had the privilege of pitching at the Green Light Showcase, hosted by the Deep Green Biotech Hub at the University of Technology Sydney. The Green Light Accelerator program has been an incredible journey...
Innovation is never built in isolation. At ALBON, our foundation is strengthened by the Universit...
Innovation is never built in isolation. At ALBON, our foundation is strengthened by the University of Sydney – one of the world's leading research institutions and Australia's #1 for sustainability and social impact....
We're honoured win the 2025 Parramatta Leagues Club Outstanding New Business (Start-Up) Award at ...
We're honoured win the 2025 Parramatta Leagues Club Outstanding New Business (Start-Up) Award at WSABE! This recognition reflects the bold ideas and commitment of our team as we build sustainable, cost-effective algae...
🧪 We're opening applications for ALBON's next intake of placements! 🚀
🧪 We're opening applications for ALBON's next intake of placements! 🚀 Step into the world of climate-tech and deeptech – working on algae-based wastewater treatment and biochar production that tackles real sustainab...
Time to put our Hult Prize Foundation pitch refinements to work. Watch us showcase our agri-waste...
Time to put our Hult Prize Foundation pitch refinements to work. Watch us showcase our agri-wastewater solution at the SXSW Sydney Student Pitch Finals on 18 Oct 🚀
September 2025 quarterly update: pilot performance and commercial progress
ALBON's Wiley Park pilot continues to show measurable results. Quarterly monitoring by Canterbury Bankstown Council environmental officers confirms blue-green algae suppression and improved water quality across the period.
🧪💧 Wastewater is a $600B+ global problem – and we're still treating it like waste.
🧪💧 Wastewater is a $600B+ global problem – and we're still treating it like waste. But what if biology could do better? A 2020 review in Science of the Total Environment (Mohsenpour et al.) shows that microalgae can...
🌍 Last week at Google HQ London, ALBON competed for A$1.5M in investment at the Hult Prize Found...
🌍 Last week at Google HQ London, ALBON competed for A$1.5M in investment at the Hult Prize Foundation Accelerator Finals - sharing the stage with the top 20 student-led ventures, selected from more than 15,000 worldw...
🧪 ALBON is showcasing! 🧪
🧪 ALBON is showcasing! 🧪 Join us at the 2025 Green Light Pitch Showcase on 9th October as we share how algae can transform wastewater treatment and sustainability 🌱💧 📅 9 Oct | 🕔 17:00 - 20:30 📍 UTS Startups Eve...
🌍 Top 20 out of 188,000+ applicants - that's where ALBON now stands in the 2025 Hult Prize.
🌍 Top 20 out of 188,000+ applicants - that's where ALBON now stands in the 2025 Hult Prize. Cofounders John and Tom, alongside Lead Controls Engineer Jestin, have been advancing ALBON on the global stage in London, p...
ALBON is honoured to be named a 2025 Finalist for Outstanding New Business at the Western Sydney ...
ALBON is honoured to be named a 2025 Finalist for Outstanding New Business at the Western Sydney Awards for Business Excellence (WSABE). 🌿🏆 This recognition celebrates the innovation behind our Wiley Park pilot, an...
🚀 Meet ALBON's Growth Team - the powerhouse behind our next chapter.
🚀 Meet ALBON's Growth Team - the powerhouse behind our next chapter. From scaling mountains to expanding operations, these sharp minds are helping to drive ALBON's growth in climate tech and agritech. With strong tra...
We're honoured to have been part of the 2025 Hatch: Taronga Accelerator Program, supported by LG ...
We're honoured to have been part of the 2025 Hatch: Taronga Accelerator Program, supported by LG Electronics Australia & New Zealand. The program has helped us accelerate our mission to stop nutrient pollution at its...
🚨 We're pitching at the Hatch: Taronga Accelerator Program Showcase! 🌿🐨
🚨 We're pitching at the Hatch: Taronga Accelerator Program Showcase! 🌿🐨 Next Wednesday 25 June at 5:30 PM, our team will be featured at the Hatch Pitch Night - a celebration of climate and conservation innovation,...
June 2025 quarterly update: Wiley Park deployment and system learnings
Six months into our Wiley Park pilot with Canterbury Bankstown Council. The system is operating autonomously, solar-powered, and delivering measurable reductions in blue-green algae cell counts across quarterly monitoring periods.
March 2025 quarterly update: big start to 2025
We've had a big start to 2025 at ALBON. The Wiley Park pilot is live, the system is running autonomously, and we're in active conversations with agri-food operators about commercial deployment.
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