All product ideas come from Andy's mastermind. Since childhood, he has been an enthusiastic researcher and tinkerer, magically drawn to everything that creeps and flies in the water. A children's room full of aquariums and animals, wins at "Jugend forscht", studies in marine biotechnology and bioprocess engineering, as well as positions at AWI and AquaSander led him into aquaculture. There, he helped build Europe's largest recirculating saltwater fish farm in Völklingen at the time, to protect the seas from overfishing.
But fish feed from oceanic catch was used as food – a circumstance Andy could no longer support. That was the motivation for founding algova – in the home pantry kitchen of the two-room apartment. Hilke was involved from the start, after all, it was her kitchen too. :)
At some point, the kitchen and living room became too small, and it moved into an old dog salon a few houses down the street. Eventually, algova relocated to its current location: an old bakery in the "platten Land" on the edge of the Lüneburg Heath.