One of the world's largest microalgal facilities under tropical outdoor environment was built in Malaysia. The project was jointly developed by Marawak Biodiversity Centre and Mitsubishi Corporation and designed by Chitose Group, a family of biotechnology companies.

The facility aims at producing local microalgal strains already selected by researchers. It is a three-dimensional cultivation facility that is optimized for efficient cultivation of microalgae under tropical environment and is applicable to future scaling. The structure not only allows for the maximum utilization of sunlight, but for also scaling up using economical and locally procurable building materials. The construction was completed in November 2018. Since then, commissioning of the facility and the preliminary demonstration of the continuous cultivation were performed, and the technical feasibility for the commercialization of this technology was confirmed. In addition, microalgal biomass cultivated and harvested from this facility has been successfully applied to the local commercial production of shrimp as feed and water conditioner.