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Hi, we are Andy and Hilke - the faces behind algova. Nice to meet you!
Of course, there are a few other faces in the algova team who do their best for you every day - Millo in production, Matti in dispatch and Emma in the back office.
We are proud to be a small but excellent team that works together quickly, flexibly and as a family.
Over the years, some customers have also become close companions. With their valuable feedback and demanding challenges, they continue to complement our team in a spirit of partnership.
All our products have one thing in common: they are sustainably produced and free from fishmeal, soya, grain and unnecessary additives or fillers. A species-appropriate food that doesn't come from the sea and is still so good - this has been our mission since the company was founded in 2014.
We have added two further key aspects to this idea: top product quality and ease of use.
Andy is therefore constantly working on new products to make our food even better and to make the use of high-quality live food, for example, even more time and energy efficient.So that you have more time to marvel at and study your animals.
Hi, we are Andy and Hilke - the faces behind algova. Nice to meet you!
Of course, there are a few other faces in the algova team who do their best for you every day - Millo in production, Matti in dispatch and Emma in the back office.
We are proud to be a small but excellent team that works together quickly, flexibly and as a family.
Over the years, some customers have also become close companions. With their valuable feedback and demanding challenges, they continue to complement our team in a spirit of partnership.
All our products have one thing in common: they are sustainably produced and free from fishmeal, soya, grain and unnecessary additives or fillers. A species-appropriate food that doesn't come from the sea and is still so good - this has been our mission since the company was founded in 2014.
We have added two further key aspects to this idea: top product quality and ease of use.
Andy is therefore constantly working on new products to make our food even better and to make the use of high-quality live food, for example, even more time and energy efficient.So that you have more time to marvel at and study your animals.
All product ideas come from Andy's mastermind, who has been an enthusiastic researcher and inventor since childhood, magically attracted by everything that creeps and crawls in the water. A children's room full of aquariums and animals, winning "Jugend forscht", studying marine biotechnology and bioprocess technology and working at the AWI and AquaSander led him to aquaculture. There, in Völklingen, he helped to establish Europe's largest recirculation-based saltwater fish farm in order to save the oceans from overfishing.
However, fish feed from oceanic catches was used as food - a situation that Andy could no longer justify. This was the impetus for founding algova - in the pantry kitchen of the two-bedroom flat at home. Hilke was involved right from the start - after all, it was her kitchen. :)
At some point, the kitchen and living room became too small and they moved into an old dog parlour a few houses down the street. Eventually, algova moved to its current location: an old bakery on the "flat land" on the edge of the Lüneburg Heath.
algova was drawn to his home on the edge of the Lüneburg Heath.
Why? Because we believe that a start-up specialising in animal feed does not belong in an overpriced metropolitan area, but in a place where good food for humans and animals is produced by responsible farmers.
We see ourselves as part of this down-to-earth community and are very happy about the warm welcome in the "flat country". What's more, the internet connection here is wonderful and we know all our parcel services personally :)
