Challenge Participants
Registrants
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Media Contact Name
Azbie Talib
Email
azbie.talib@gmail.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Black soldier fly (BSF) for BSF oil, BSF protein mean and frass production, and trading of cacao.
What year was the company founded?
2022
What is the company’s approximate annual production volume (metric tonnes)?
100
What carnivorous species are you entering for the F3 Farm Challenge that will be raised without fishmeal, fish oil or krill?
Grouper
In which countries do you intend to sell your fish for the F3 Challenge?
Philippines
Media Contact Name
Emily Hart, Sales and Marketing Team
Email
emily.hart@agriking.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Agri-King is an animal nutrition company committed to the success and profitability of livestock producers worldwide for more than 55 years. We believe that capturing the nutritional value in feeds is the key to profit.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
A nutritional direct-fed microbial and enzyme supplement for further manufacture of feeds for all classes of livestock. Contains a source of alpha-Amylase and Cellulase, which can hydrolyze starch and cellulose.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
1968
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
200
In what country is your company headquartered?
United States
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Agri-King is committed to advancing the agricultural industry and providing producers with the highest quality nutritional products to obtain the most from their feedstuffs and livestock. From complete nutrition programs and personalized rations to products that guide forages through the ensiling process, Agri-King offers a wide variety of products to help livestock producers capture the nutritional value in their feedstuffs while increasing your bottom line. Agri-King has more than 50 years of experience in researching, developing and feeding enzymes and microbial products to livestock operations.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
In 1997, Agri-King Ltd was established in the United Kingdom, introducing Agri-King products to the European market. Over the past decade, Agri-King has expanded into new markets and now operates in many countries around the world. In Europe, we are active in Ireland, France, Italy, and the Netherlands. On the Mediterranean Coast, we work in Israel. We also have partners in Korea with more countries coming on board each year.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
We believe that capturing the nutritional value in feeds is the key to profit.
Media Contact Name
Eva Wilders, Communication Strategist
Email
eva.wilders@protix.eu
Please provide a short description of your company.
Protix is the leading company in insect-based ingredients for healthy and sustainable pet food, animal feed and organic fertiliser. The company is on a mission to create low-footprint ingredients that solve major issues in the current food system. Protix creates a perfect circular food chain by using organic waste from the food industry as feed for the black soldier fly (BSF). In turn, the insects are processed into valuable nutrients such as proteins and lipids. Protix’s customers use these proteins and lipids as high-quality ingredients for feed and food. Moreover, residual streams from the insects are used as organic fertiliser. This way, insects close the loop and bring the food system back in balance with nature.
Protix operates the first-in-the-world industrial insect facility. With breeding and processing under one roof, the company has complete control of the production chain and offers reliable, high-quality supply. As the frontrunner and industry leader, Protix has laid the basis for a broad range of applications in feed and food. The company is now expanding internationally to deliver its solutions on a much broader scale. Protix believes in the power of partnerships, and actively seeks collaboration with forward-thinking players to unleash the potential of insect ingredients for the world. Join us on our mission!
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
At Protix, we believe in harnessing the latest technology to produce the ingredient of the future: insects. We are the market leader when it comes to verifiable and scalable insect breeding. To change the food system, we need to deliver a quality product and a reliable output. The black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) is a key player in bringing our vision to life: their larvae provide us with a unique source of protein for food and feed! With high-tech solutions, artificial intelligence, genetic improvement programs and robotics, Protix brings the food system back in balance with nature.
Protein Product is a unique high-quality insect-based protein meal by Protix. It’s carefully crafted in a patented process to extract only the best from our larvae. Thanks to its attractive balance of essential amino and fatty acids, and macro and micro minerals, it is ideally suited for healthy and sustainable salmon feed. Protein Product is produced without need for exploiting natural resources such as krill, reduces the carbon footprint, and uses less water and land than most alternatives.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2009
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
175
In what country is your company headquartered?
The Netherlands
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Protix produces insect-based ingredients from BSF larvae. Our product portfolio consists of Protein Product (an insect meal), LipidX (an insect fat), PureeX (a fresh insect meat), and Flytilizer (a soil stimulant and fertilizer). We continuously invest in updating and upgrading our product portfolio according to market needs. For example, recently we launched fresh PureeX, an improved product for petfood use.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
On 4 continents
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$10,000,000.00
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
We’re a mission driven company. We want to bring the food system back in balance with nature. We believe in having the science right, and make our impact on emissions, land and water use quantifiable.
With a unique Life Cycle Assessment, we measured the environmental impact of our operations resulting in impressive scores that will improve further in the future. This LCA has been published in November 2022 and a quarterly update is made available on our LinkedIn channel.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
The F3 Krill Replacement Challenge perfectly fits our companies mission to bring back the food system in balance with nature. It’s a win-win situation. By applying insect-based nutrition from Protix we prevent the depletion of natural krill populations and re-use food waste.
Media Contact Name
Max Johansen, Marketing Manager
Email
mjohansen@novonutrients.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
NovoNutrients will capture megatons of carbon and cleanly feed the world. We are the biotech company that is gas fermenting carbon dioxide emissions with renewable energy in the form of hydrogen. We make microbial, alternative protein ingredients for feed applications, with an eye towards replacing high quality, high protein aquafeed ingredients like krill and fishmeal. Without reliance on fossil fuels or agriculture, our technology uses the world’s most abundant, inexpensive inputs via proprietary, high-efficiency gas bioreactors. Our customized, fast-growing microbes allow us to offer carbon transformation to emitters and produce carbon-negative, gas fermentation biomass optimized by natural selection, with precision gas-fermented nutritional additives, such as carotenoids, achieved with synthetic biology, as an optional inclusion.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Our gas fermentation single cell protein is derived from natural microbes and boasts >73% protein by dry mass, higher digestibility among salmonids than fishmeal, and increased palatability. It contains the full spectrum of amino acids required for swift, healthful fish growth, and supports gut health and immune function via PHAs naturally present in the final product. Furthermore, the product itself is produced using less than 1% of the land and water required for traditional agricultural protein production, and eases pressure on already strained marine ecosystems by being completely marine-organism-free.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
Yes
What year was your company founded?
2017
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
15
In what country is your company headquartered?
United States
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Our main product line is our bulk fermentation single cell protein, which can find uses in livestock, pet, and aquafeeds. With additional downstream processing, we can also produce higher grade protein with tailored flavor and functionality profiles. Finally, employing our expertise in synthetic biology, we produce valuable bioactive molecules, such as carotenoids, for inclusion in our SCP.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
United States of America
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
The world will emit more than 40 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent this year, while a growing global middle class demands a much more protein-heavy diet. There are few economic and scalable technologies for CCUS, despite emitters facing increasing decarbonization pressures. Agricultural practices for producing protein from livestock and row crops are increasingly expensive, worsen climate change, utilize huge land areas, and deplete or contaminate water supplies worldwide. NovoNutrients’ unique approach–carbon capture to protein–both mitigates the effects of climate change and sustainably feeds a growing population ever more hungry for fish and meat.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
This is an excellent opportunity for us to showcase our impact in the aquaculture sector and to reduce pressure on marine ecosystems by demonstrating that we are an effective, affordable, sustainable alternative to krill meal. The attention that would be a result of winning the F3 Krill Meal Replacement Challenge would likely attract more investment and partnership opportunities, which will allow us to rapidly scale to commercial manufacturing and potentially secure day one offtakers of our products.
Media Contact Name
Chiara Molena, Interim Head of Marketing
Email
chiara.molena@microharvest.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
MicroHarvest is a biotech company that pushes technological boundaries to help build the resilient food system of tomorrow and drive impact today. Our technology uses biomass fermentation to produce protein ingredients that can be used across the protein value chain. Our technology enables us to use microorganisms and biomass fermentation to achieve unprecedented production scale while maintaining a high nutritional profile in our ingredients.
We can go from input to output in a 24-hour process. The amino acid profile of our ingredients is comparable to the next best alternatives to animal protein – but we can produce on a larger scale, faster, and more sustainably.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
– Our Single Cell Protein (SCP) is sustainably fermented bacterial biomass.
– It has a high protein content (with an amino acid profile close to fishmeal), great palatability and digestibility.
– Our SCP contains nucleotides and other metabolites that are beneficial for gut health and immunity.
– Up to 10% inclusion (fishmeal replacement) showed positive results in a feed acceptance test in shrimp.
– A digestibility study in salmon is planned for October this year.
– A preliminary lifecycle assessment showed that CO2eq emissions were more than halved compared to soya protein isolate, while the process still has significant scope for optimisation and further significant reductions.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2021
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
25
In what country is your company headquartered?
Germany
What types of products does your company currently produce?
We currently produce 2 products for aquafeed on a commercial scale:
1. Single cell protein
Our bacterial single cell protein contains high levels (>50%) of crude protein and has an amino acid profile close to that of fishmeal, with high palatability and digestibility.
The presence of nucleotides and other metabolites can further support immunity, development and gut health in fish.
2. Single cell extract (trade name HILIX)
HILIX is a speciality aquaculture product and is our first single cell ingredient. It contains a mixture of amino acids, protein, nucleotides, vitamins and minerals. This product is produced from our bacterial SCP. Including HILIX in aquafeed supports growth performance, for example in salmon and shrimp. In addition, the inclusion of the semi-essential nutrients improves the health status of the animals.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
MicroHarvest is pre-revenue and plans to launch our first product for aquaculture by early 2024. We will initially work with international customers in Europe and Asia, with a view to expanding further.
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
As the world faces the unprecedented challenge of meeting a rapidly growing demand for protein, MicroHarvest is pushing the boundaries to deliver the sustainable protein ingredients of the future by harnessing the power of microorganisms. Our ambition is to produce nutritious, sustainable protein to create the resilient food system of tomorrow – driving impact today. We aim to drive impact across the protein value chain: from aquaculture to pet food to human food, our protein ingredients offer the uncompromising solution between quality, sustainability and scalability.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
Aquaculture is one of our key markets: while seafood is a nutritious and already relatively sustainable source of protein, its impact can be further reduced by using alternative protein sources such as MicroHarvest.
We believe it is important to drive impact by bringing products to market that can scale and meet customer demand: Our ingredients are not only sustainable, but also meet the nutritional needs of customers in an agile and scalable way.
Media Contact Name
Florie Madec, Marketing & Communication
Email
flmadec@bcf-lifesciences.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
BCF Life Sciences is a private French company, based in Brittany and specialized in the extraction of functional free amino acids mixes from a sustainable protein source, poultry keratin. The company is historically a pioneer of the circular economy and was created in 1986 with the purpose of reuse feathers from poultry integrated Guyomarc’h group and create added value functional ingredients (Unique mixes of functional amino acids).
The company is strongly involved in research programs and all our products are tested according to their field of application to better understand the mechanisms of action and specify the performance of ingredients and active principles.
Our approach is focus on health nutrition and specifically market driven by different application fields: Human Care, Animal Care and Plant Care.
BCF Life Sciences is present in Aquaculture since 2018 with Kera-Aqua range. In relation with our CSR policy and commitment to reduce our environmental impact, this positioning is particularly in phase to answer challenges of Aquafeed industry to reduce carbon footprint and globally improve sustainability by reducing the pressure on marine resources. Kera-Aqua offers a range of functional amino acids mixes allowing shrimp and fish to overcome challenges. Through their functional actions, these functional amino acid mixes induce direct and indirect benefits at Aquafeed and Farm levels, and contribute to global sector efficiency moving toward a more sustainable model.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Kera-Stim®50 (KS50) is a unique mix of free amino acids obtained from extensive hydrolysis (thermal and pH) of a sustainable protein source, the poultry keratin from poultry feather. This unique process generates a unique combination of 17 free amino acids (AA) belonging to essential AA, non-essential AA and functional AA categories. The gap between traditional AA classification and physiological importance has led to the emergence of the “Functional amino acids” concept proposed by Wu (2010). Functional AAs are defined as those that participate and regulate key metabolic pathways to improve growth and health in mammals and fish. This AA group encompasses arginine, cysteine, glutamine, glutamate, glycine, leucine, proline, and tryptophan regardless of their designation as dispensable or indispensable.
In relation with this specific AA profile and AA functionalities, the product positioning is market and challenges driven and its application in aqua feed provides direct benefits on health and welfare such as better adaptability to water conditions, higher resistance to diseases, optimization of the oxygen use and support of the moulting for shrimp. In relation with its high attractant effects, this mosaic of functional AA also provides strong indirect benefits on feed intake and feed efficiency. The combination of all these benefits generates higher growth and survival and finally contribute to the carbon footprint reduction.
Amino acid composition (in % or g/100g)
Aspartic acid: 3.67%, Threonine: 2.48%, Serine: 6.60%, Glutamic acid: 5.43%, Glycine: 4.48%, Alanine: 2.53%, Valine: 4.07%, Cystine: 1.04%, Methionine: 0.30%, Isoleucine: 2.44%, Leucine: 3.96%, Tyrosine: 0.41%, Phenylalanine: 2.49%, Lysine: 0.97%, Histidine: 0.32%, Arginine: 3.40%, Proline: 5.84%.
Low molecular weight and fast assimilation
The mix has a very low molecular weight in relation with the hydrolysis level. 93% of the composition (free AA) is inferior to 250 Da and 100% of the composition inferior to 800 Da (Di and Tri-peptides), ensuring a fast assimilation and in vivo digestibility of 96.8%, between the most digestible protein sources available on the market.
Proven Performance
Our product development and sales strategy is based on a strong proven performance policy. We work in collaboration with more than 10 research centers and universities worldwide and we have presented our works in 20 scientific articles and magazines and 14 conferences in congresses since 2018.
Results on fish application:
During a first experimental study conducted on Tilapia in partnership with Mahasarakham University (Thailand), KS50 supplementation of the feed significantly influenced zootechnical performances, with increase of growth parameters, biomass and FCR reduction. In relation with these parameters and improvement of the feed utilization, we noted positive effects on the digestive enzymes activity including amylase, protease and lipase, evaluated in fish intestine that were significantly increased. We also measured antioxidative status of fish by determination of non-specific immune enzyme in fish serum: superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase and underlined significant higher activity levels. Interestingly, we also observed significant improvements of innate immune response of fish serum such as lysozyme, myeloperoxidase and catalase activity. It is noteworthy that, in correlation with growth performances, KS50 supplementation on feed generates significant higher levels of the digestive, antioxidative and innate immune response enzymatic activities of Nile tilapia. We recently published these research results in the journal Aquaculture (Wangkahart et al., 2022).
In a recent complementary study also conducted on Tilapia in a perspective of Fish Meal reduction in feed, we found that dietary KS50 supplementation significantly increased the growth performance parameters including final body weight, weight gain, and specific growth rate with a substantial positive effect on the feed conversion ratio. Interestingly, not only the low-FM diets but also the diets supplemented with KS50 had a positive effect on the economic conversion ratio and economic profit index, suggesting increased economic efficiency. Furthermore, lysozyme, catalase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, and glutathione reductase activity levels were significantly increased by supplementing low-FM diets with KS50. KS50 and low-FM diets increased the whole-body levels of ash, fat, and crude protein. Moreover, KS50 supplementation increased the levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids. These results are under scientific publication process.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
1986
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
213
In what country is your company headquartered?
France
What types of products does your company currently produce?
BCF Life Sciences is a French company specialized in the extraction of free amino acids from a sustainable protein source, poultry keratin coming from poultry feather. Amino acids are the base of protein building and indispensable for the nutritional and physiological balances and their functionalities on different metabolic pathways offer a large spectrum of potential applications to answer health and nutrition challenges.
Based on the company’s proven performance policy, these mixes of free amino acids are positioned on specific areas driven by nutrition and health market. The range of products covers different application fields such as Animal Care (all animals and more specifically all aqua species, Pet Food), Human Care (Pharma, Food supplements, Baby Food) and Plant Care.
Aquaculture sector: BCF Life Sciences has developed a tailor made solution with a unique mix, a mosaic of 17 free amino acids. These AA are belonging to essential AA and non-essential AA categories, but in addition, some of them are also functional AA, which are defined as those AA that participate in and regulate key metabolic pathways to improve health, survival, growth, development, lactation, and reproduction of the organisms. The supplementation of this unique combination on feed provides direct benefits to overcome health challenges in relation with diseases, oxygen transportation, moulting management and water quality evolution, but also indirect benefits with strong attractant properties conferring higher feed intake and feed efficiency for shrimp and fish. The conjunction of all these benefits obtained through nutrition generates higher survival and biomass production, inducing better economical performances and at the end of the value chain contribute to reduce the carbon footprint.
Additionally, the valorisation of this protein source from circular economy in high functional ingredient can be considered in Aquafeed formulation matrix, without any impact on the marine resources and contribute to improve the sustainability of aquaculture productions.
Canine and feline nutrition: BCF Life Sciences provides solutions for applications covering the treatment and prevention of food allergies thanks to free amino acid mixes with very low molecular weights, which give them their anallergenic properties.
Human health-nutrition: BCF Life Sciences activities are focalized on production and purification of amino acids (L-Cystine and L-Tyrosine) dedicated for medical nutrition, particularly for the treatment of phenylketonuria.
Food supplements: Single amino acids (L-Cystine and L-Tyrosine) are used to improve skin, nails and hair health and to contribute to the stress reduction and fatigue management.
L-Cystine is also a precursor in Carbocisteine synthesis, mucolytic pharmaceutical active ingredient used in the composition of medicines prescribed for the relief of coughs.
Plant Care, BCF Life Sciences also supports farmers in their transition towards more sustainable forms of agriculture with innovative solutions that make it possible to improve soil and plant nutrition and thus limit the use of chemical inputs (fertilizers, pesticides), while still maintaining good technical and economic performance.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
We are present in 40 countries and 64% of our turnover is realized on the export market.
In Aquaculture, we are present in Europe, SEA (Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia), and LATAM (Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Brazil).
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$55,000,000
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Historically, our activities have their roots in the local circular economy, and today, the majority of our input materials are considered the co-products of other industries.
BCF Life Sciences is a pioneer of circular economy based on the Breton poultry-breeding sector.
In 2022, 48% of the raw materials used for our production operations were co-products (feathers) resulting from regional poultry breeding and the production operations of down.
For their part, the chemical inputs are auxiliary technical materials, which make it possible to extract and purify the amino acid fractions:
• Caustic soda, a co-product from the electrolysis of a sodium chloride solution, which also yields chlorine. It is the basic raw material for the manufacture of PVC.
• Hydrochloric acid, the main co-product from the manufacture of PVC.
In 2022, BCF Life Sciences has defined a new trajectory for energy saving, with the objective to reduce the energy consumption by 30% until 2027. This trajectory is equivalent to a reduction of 6 000 T CO2eq/year.
BCF Life Sciences amino acids mixes are not in competition with marine origin raw materials and our positioning on Aquaculture contributes to improve the sustainability of Aquaculture productions.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
To encourage aquaculture sustainability and lower fish production costs, marine origin ingredients and raw materials need to be substituted with sustainable ingredients in aquafeeds. In this context of marine products substitution, mixes of free amino acids obtained from poultry keratin extensive hydrolysates are interesting candidates for aquaculture feeds. Despite the important effort have been made by the Aquafeed industry to replace fish meal and other marine ingredients by alternative materials, mainly from vegetal origin, shrimp and fish feed still consume an important part of marine origin products, such as fish meal and krill meal. Since the start of BCF Life Sciences positioning on Aqua Feed sector, our studies have underlined strong benefits of mixes of free amino acids obtained from this sustainable valorisation of the poultry feather. This by-product from terrestrial origin converted into a high functional ingredient confers to the feed better performances traduced in economic savings. We have built this strong database in partnership with more than 10 Universities and research centers worlwide and published our results in 20 articles and 14 conferences in congresses. The gains are measurable on attraction, feed intake, feed assimilation and growth performances. In addition, we have also underlined strong improvements on survival, resistance to disease and to environmental stress in relation with water quality variations (oxygen and salinity).
This challenge is completely inline with the objective of BCF Life Sciences to be in the heart of the circular economy and confer sense, valour and carbon footprint reduction to the whole chain of production. The direct inclusion of Kera-Stim®50 in Aquafeeds confers direct benefits on health, feed intake and feed efficiency measurable at farm stage. These benefits directly contribute to higher survival and growth performances, linked with FCR reduction and at the end of the value chain, they are part of necessary efforts to reduce the carbon footprint. Extensive feather hydrolysate is an efficient way to improve the sustainability of both poultry and aqua species production by turning indigestible by-product into an efficient functional ingredient for Aquafeed, in the respect and preservation of natural marine resources.
Media Contact Name
Jyothi Papabathini, Proprietor
Email
anandkumar.papabathini@gmail.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
We are focusing on nurturing the protein requirement and helping customers to get the best protein source.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2019
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
10
In what country is your company headquartered?
India
Media Contact Name
Anh Ngoc Nguyen, Director
Email
ngoc.nguyen@thenangroup.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
MFC (Marine Functional Vietnam) has more than 9 years of dedication to agriculture. MFC provides functional ingredients and nutrition solutions for animal feed producers, such as protein hydrolysates, fish oil, black soldier fly larvae oil for animals and aqua feed industry, and pet food.
We bring the most modern and optimal solutions to support the agricultural production industry to maximize their efficiency while aiming to promote sustainable agriculture.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Currently, the company has a PROTEIN HYDROLYSATES AND OIL PRODUCTION FACTORY in Sa Dec, Dong Thap province. The main products on the market including hydrolyzed protein, hydrolyzed protein powder and oil from animal by-products, aquatic products, and insects as raw materials for animal feed, aquatic feed, pet food, and food ingredients for people.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
Media Contact Name
John Mollison, Chief Communication Officer
Email
john@southdakotainnovation.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Houdek has developed a micro-fungal process to convert soybean meal (SBM) into a high protein product (marketed as Me-Pro®) that is improving productivity and environmental performance of aquaculture operations worldwide. Our attention has been devoted to address environmental issues and the corresponding implementation of practices designed to reduce the environmental footprint of the aquaculture feed industry including: sustainability, traceability, and economical balance.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Me-Pro® is a leading alternative protein source for aquafeeds, and its proprietary manufacturing process reduces the undesirable components of soybeans while producing a >70% digestible protein, and providing significant quantities of biologically-active factors that can increase gut microbiota, reduce intestinal inflammation, enhance metabolic processes for improved animal health, and improves palatability and attractability in aquaculture feeds.
In addition, ME-PRO® is more cost-effective than the majority of the marine and animal proteins, including fish meal, krill meal and insect meals, because of its high (minimum) standard of 70% protein content combined with more that 90% digestibility. As an ingredient manufactured to high-quality standards, it reduces the need for binders, while improving nutritional performance. Contains virtually no phytates and more than 90% of its phosphorus is available to animals which significantly reduces phosphorus of discharged waters from pond-based commercial culture operations or open-cage ones.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2011 but In commercial operation since 2019
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
75
In what country is your company headquartered?
United States
What types of products does your company currently produce?
We provide the aquaculture, pet nutrition, and human health markets with fermented plant-protein ingredients. It includes Me-Pro, Access Starter Protein, Protéger, and several more under development that will be launched in 2024-2025.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Worldwide with the exception of Africa & Australia/New Zealand
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Houdek – Prairie AquaTech has a firm commitment to creating high-quality, plant-based ingredients that help aquaculture producers achieve environmental, nutritional and business performance goals.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
Houdek – Prairie Aquatech is committed to transform the global aquaculture industry into one more responsible with people and the environment by proving that it is possible to produce fish and shrimp of the highest quality while using safe methods for the environment.
As the aquaculture industry becomes increasingly conscious of costs and benefits, it continues to search for more “functional” feeds that support animal growth but also improve health and promote other desirable benefits beyond traditional feeds, many of which are augmented with key ingredients and compounds that promote animal growth and survival. In addition, plant proteins are being increasingly used as alternatives to proteins from animal sources in aquafeeds.
Media Contact Name
Syed Nawaz, Co-Founder
Email
nawazc05@gmail.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Hermet Nutrix is an insect farming startup based in Madurai, India. We are one of the pioneers in insect farming in India. At Hermet Nutrix, we believe in the extraordinary potential of insects to revolutionize animal nutrition. We are a leading insect protein company dedicated to producing high-quality protein and fat ingredients for animal feed and pet food. Our mission is to contribute to a sustainable and thriving future for our planet and to promote the health and well-being of animals everywhere.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
We have developed an unique product called INSECT PROTEIN COMPOSITE. Our Black Soldier Fly-INSECT PROTEIN COMPOSITE offers exceptional nutritional benefits. INSECT PROTEIN COMPOSITE is packed with protein, fat, essential amino acids and omega fatty acids, making them a highly valuable source of balanced nutrition for a wide range of animals. From livestock to aquaculture and pets, our ingredients support healthy growth, optimal performance, and overall well-being. Our patent pending technology allows us to raise these insects fed on microbes, ensuring that no waste products are used in the process ensuring the safety and hygiene of the end product.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2022
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
4
In what country is your company headquartered?
India
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Along with INSECT PROTEIN COMPOSITE we also produce GRUBBY PRO. GRUBBY PRO is India’s first insect based all in one supplement for dogs. It offers Immune support, coat shine, gut health, joint health, increase appetite and is hypoallergenic. Dogs have shown promising improvement in their health and performance when they are fed with GRUBBY PRO.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Currently we are about to enter the market in India. We are a pre-revenue startup.
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
We at Hermet Nutrix believe in the potential of insects and microbes to make a sustainable shift towards a clean and healthy feed practices for animals. We are striving to make the process of feed manufacturing carbon-neutral.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
This challenge allows us the opportunity to showcase the potential of our sustainably produced product in the global arena.
Media Contact Name
Grady Fain, VP, Sales & Regional Director NCA
Email
gfa@hamletprotein.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
We are a speciality ingredient supplier. Our scientifically documented soy-based ingredients improve health, welfare, and performance in animals.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
An enzymatically treated soy product using a patented bioconversion process.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
1989
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
125
In what country is your company headquartered?
Denmark
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Enzymatically treated soy based products.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
55 countries in the continents of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, & Africa. For a complete list, please contact us.
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Minimizing the environmental impact of our operations has been our top priority ever since we started producing more than 25 years ago. We consistently invest in production efficiency, to reduce the use of natural resources. Today, steam is 98% of our emissions from our plants.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
We work to deliver a strong return on investment to producers around the world with minimal impact on our environment.
Media Contact Name
Felipe Mayol, CCO
Email
felipe@f4f.cl
Please provide a short description of your company.
F4F, is a Chilean scientific-based startup, dedicated to transform organic waste into high value, sustainable and nutritious feed ingredients. Inspired by nature, and with our proprietary technology we reproduce, grow and process insects, by using organic waste as feedstock, and transforming their biomass into sustainable and nutritious protein, lipids and other functional ingredients for fish feed and other animals. F4F offers the feed and animal ingredients producers, to remove pressure on wild fisheries systems, by replacing conventional ingredients such as fishmeal and soy or Krill, with insect based protein, lipids and other functional products.
Our business model aims to democratize the fabrication of sustainable and climate positive aquaculture feed, by working with small to medium feed manufacturers, and commercialize together climate positive, fish free and circular aquafeed. Our insect feed has a verified negative carbon footprint of -20 ton of CO2eq per ton of insect meal. This translates to the end product and therefore fish farmers can commercialize their products as climate positive as well. This work has been developed with consultancy and third party verified.
Our products offer our customers sustainable ingredients at a much lower environmental cost, plus offering feeding properties (high value protein and lipids) with additional benefits such as antimicrobial properties good for the immune system. Our high value protein and lipids, offer antimicrobial properties thanks to the high content of lauric acid and the presence of specialized antimicrobial peptides.
Insects deliver several ecosystem services like transforming organic waste into nutritious and sustainable food for fish. So what we are doing is to mimick the power of nature using the most efficient type of insect, carefully selected, and developing the technology to transform enormous amounts of organic waste, into high value ingredients for fish, in addition to the organic fertilizer it generates. This way we can recover up to 80% of the nutrients contained in organic waste.
By using a proprietary technology, we create the optimal conditions, for this specie of insect, to reproduce and grow, at an industrial scale.
Our business can make a difference to relieve pressure on the marine resources, and on natural resources associated to food systems in general, by providing a low environmental footprint, sourced of functional food, upcycled from food waste. Thanks to the antimicrobial properties of our feed ingredients, our customers could also rely less on antibiotics to treat fish diseases.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
The product we are developing for the F3 Challenge replaces Krill as protein source of the fish diet by Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia Illucens) BSF meal.
BSF is a 100% circular product, obtained from the upcycling of organic waste and rich in high quality protein as well as other nutrients. Our insect meal has a negative carbon footprint of -20 kg of CO2eq per kg of meal. This comes from the avoided methane emissions of organic waste. We certify that 100% of our raw material (organic waste) comes from avoided to landfill material. Therefore we are not replacing animal feed for insect feed. We offer our clients carbon negative footprint for their end product and fish feed. We are developing climate positive fish free feed with small to medium feed producers as we aim to democratize feed production and ultimately fish production.
The benefits for the ecosystems by including insect meal are huge, for instance on a standard diet for Atlantic salmon, replacing half of the fish meal used by insect meal, results on a 27% reduction of the marine resources dependency*
*Prepared from the data of the Technical Report Comparison of potential environmental impacts through the life cycle approach associated with the production of three types of meal: Black Soldier Fly insect meal, fish meal and soybean meal (Regenerativa, 2020)
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2013
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
95
In what country is your company headquartered?
Chile
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Black soldier fly dried larvae
Black soldier fly larvae meal
Black soldier fly larvae oil
Black soldier fly larvae frass
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Chile, mainly in the Salmon feed industry
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$800,000.00
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Our company’s mission is to Ensure the food of the future, regenerating our ecosystems.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
The product we are proposing for the F3 Challenge, is a contribution for a sustainable change in the current food system, through a circular economy concept, reducing the dependency of marine resources and enabling the expected growth of the aquaculture industry. Our business model aims to democratize fish feed production with small to medium feed producers and ultimately to democratize regenerative fish production.
Media Contact Name
Lucile Ducouret, Marketing & Communication Manger
Email
lducouret@arbiom.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Arbiom is committed to feeding the world in a sustainable and healthy way. Driven by our values of Excellence, Inclusivity and Sustainability, our passionate team leverages the power of fermentation to deliver next generation protein ingredients by tapping into nature-based solutions. Arbiom truly adds to the food supply by creating rather than redistributing proteins. Our products are purpose-grown, natural, and protein-rich. With excellent functional and sensory properties, they are a perfect solution to healthy human and animal nutrition. Arbiom’s first industrial project is underway in France, providing a safe and secure supply of 10,000 tons of product per year to customers and partners.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
SylPro is a nutritional and sustainable Single Cell Protein (SCP) developed as a high-quality ingredient for use in aquaculture. SylPro provides a nutritional, functional, consistent, and sustainable source of protein.
SylPro is produced by fermentation of a wide variety of sustainable and undervalued feedstocks, thanks to Arbiom’s technology. It is a non-GMO Torula Yeast, globally approved for use as a feed ingredient.
SylPro is an excellent source of protein (animal free) for use in aquaculture. It has a high-protein content and superior digestibility compared to conventional protein ingredients. Fish fed SylPro diets have seen positive impacts on their gastro-intestinal health.
SylPro Key Features:
– High crude protein content
– Balanced essential amino-acid profile
– Class leading digestibility
– Performs well in extrusion conditions
– Contains functional fibers to support gut health
– Low environmental impact, safe and consistent quality
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2016
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
24
In what country is your company headquartered?
USA & France
Media Contact Name
Christophe Trespeuch
Email
c.trespeuch@mutatec.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Founded in 2015, MUTATEC is a pioneer in insect bioconversion. In a logic of circular economy, its activity makes it possible to valorize food losses (unsold fruits and vegetables, agricultural co-products) to produce insect proteins, oils and ingredients for animal feed. At the service of the ecological transition and according to the principles of the circular economy; MUTATEC’s Bioconversion farms are based on a reasoned agricultural model, with technical solutions with low environmental impact and responding perfectly to the challenges of relocation of agriculture and food autonomy. MUTATEC already operates its first farms in France and Ecuador, and plans to build and operate new insect farms every year in France and abroad.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Many years of R&D have led to the development of a range of natural ingredients made in France and Ecuador. Available for sale since 2018, the nutritional and organoleptic characteristics of these ingredients have been widely validated in aquaculture, poultry farming and for pet and ornamental animal feed. Our insects are bred in France and Ecuador, are fed exclusively with substrates of plant origin, non-GMO and collected locally. The Company is developing a second generation of insect-derived product dedicated to aquaculture, in order to increase growth performances, reinforce disease prevention and lower carbon footprint.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2015
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
20
In what country is your company headquartered?
France
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Insects derived products for animal nutrition.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
European Union and latin America.
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$500,000.00
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
MUTATEC invents and makes accessible “Bioconversion by insects” technologies. Facing challenges of sustainable development, MUTATEC provides concrete, virtuous and applicable solutions all over the world.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
MUTATEC has a significant experience in using insect-derived products for aquaculture (more than 15 trials in trouts, shrimps, salmon, seabream,…)
Media Contact Name
Ana Biggers, Trade Marketing Analyst
Email
ana.biggers@brf.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
BRF Ingredients is an interdependent business unit of BRF, which aims to add value to raw materials in the agricultural chain and leverage the circular economy, through an awareness of innovation, efficiency and sustainability, generating performance ingredients for BRF and, for the Food Ingredients, Animal Nutrition, Human Health and Plant Nutrition markets.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
BRF Ingredients’ Chicken Protein Hydrolysate is a natural protein ingredient developed specially to improve the performance of poultry.
It is produced through the process of enzymatic hydrolysis, which results in smaller chains of amino acids and bioactive peptides.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2016
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
800
In what country is your company headquartered?
Brazil
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Enzymatic Hydrolized Proteins
Animal Meals
Animal Fat
Pork Crackling Meal
Raw Material to Human and Health Industry (Mucosa, Bile, Pancreas)
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Brazil, Argentina, Chile, USA, Vietnam, South Africa, Nigeria, Myanmar, Colombia, UE.
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Our mission is Generate performance ingredients that leverage our circular economy.
Media Contact Name
Wei Chiang Quah
Email
ivan_quah93@hotmail.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Palmatech was founded for the purpose of engineering and fabrication works in the palm oil milling industry. As the business progressed, Palmatech started to venture into product development. A patented process called “First Cut Technology” was developed that allowed for fractionation of crude palm oil into both stearin and olein components that were very high in carotenoids and Vitamin E. Trials were soon developed to access the potential enhancement of animal feed, and initial trial data shows promising results.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Perfat Ruby 2500 is designed to further elevate productivity, pigmentation and meat quality for aquaculture and monogastric animals. To amplify the concentration of phytonutrients within Perfat Ruby 2500, the product undergoes a repeated processing cycle, enhancing the potency of its beneficial compounds through multiple iterations of the refinement process.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2008
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
Less than 50
In what country is your company headquartered?
Malaysia
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Our products can be used for different types of animals: Ruminants, Monogastric animals, and Aquaculture species such as fish and shrimps.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Our products can be found in countries such as Italy, China, Thailand.
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Our goal is to make sustainable practices central to our operations by replacing fish oil with a planet-friendly plant-based alternative, supporting farmers in producing safe, affordable, and nutritious food while lessening the strain on marine ecosystems and positively impacting the environment.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
This challenge fits our company’s goals. We’re experts in plant-based lipids, aiming to offer eco-friendly alternatives to krill products. It’s a chance to show our skills, improve performance, and support better nutrition in the livestock industry.
Media Contact Name
Wael Fraihi, Innovation Project Manager
Email
w.fraihi@nextprotein.co
Please provide a short description of your company.
nextProtein, a Tunisian-French company established in 2015 in Paris, is working on creating new ingredients derived from insects to be used in animal feed. nextProtein is aiming to expedite ecologically responsible farming and address the scarcity of resources. nextProtein provides effective solutions through inventive procedures in rearing the Black Soldier Fly larvae using organic waste authorized by the EU and raised on a vertical farming concept. nextProtein is actively contributing to circular economy and has pioneered comprehensive expertise in all stages of the BSF, spanning from cultivating insects to rearing flies and deriving meal (nextProtein) and oil (nextOil) from the larvae.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2015
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
100
In what country is your company headquartered?
France
Media Contact Name
Ludovic Lair, Director, Sales and Marketing
Email
ludovic.lair@entosystem.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Entosystem is a major producer of Black Soldier Fly (BSF) in North-America. With our new industrial faciltiy ramping-up in Drummondville, Québec, we will be able to serve the petfood, feed and aqua industry with sustainable protein and oil. Circular economy is at the heart of our business model as we mostly feed our larvae with pre-consumer food waste from groceries and food factories. At full capacity, we will give a second chance and value 250 MT of wet material per day transformed by our BSF lavae in high quality protein and oil.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
We will provide our black soldier fly protein meal coming from our new industrial facility in Drummondville, QC.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2016
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
50
In what country is your company headquartered?
Canada
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Whole Dried Larvae (Black Soldier Fly)
Protein meal
Insect oil
Frass (fertilizer from insect farming)
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Canada and USA
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$500,000.00
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Unleash the superpowers of insects for a cleaner, more sustainable and responsible food system.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
This challenge is at the heart of what we do. Our co-founder and CEO, Cédric Provost, realized in 2015-2016 that, in Canada, while we waste a lot of food, we also use a lot of resources that are not sustainable, like fisk meal and krill meal in order to feed our salmons and trouts from aquaculture. He then found out that thanks to Black Soldier Fly and their superpowers, he could tackle these 2 issues by starting a farm, collect the food waste from grocery stores and transform it into high quality, local and sustainable solutions for our aquaculture, feed and petfood production.
Media Contact Name
Beth Saxton, Director of Global Marketing
Email
Beth.Saxton@apcproteins.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
APC LLC is the world’s leading company in the valorization of blood products of animal origin (porcine and bovine) for use as functional ingredients for animal feed. Our products are safe thanks to the careful production process from the collection of blood in slaughterhouses to its distribution to our end customers. Spray-dried plasma is an ingredient recognized for its biological functionality that improves animal health and well-being, resulting in better productive performance and a reduction in the use of growth-promoting antibiotics. Its use is widespread in the manufacture of pet food, weaned pigs or during different stages of their development, chickens and calves.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Spray-dried plasma (SDP) encompasses a diverse array of biological constituents, including albumin, immunoglobulins, transferrin, fibrinogen, peptides, enzymes, vitamins, and minerals (Campbell et al., 2019). Employed as a feed ingredient and intestinal safeguard for recently weaned piglets, SDP has demonstrated enhanced feed intake and weight gain (Balan et al., 2021). Notably, Bosi et al. (2004) reported that plasma protein, in comparison to fishmeal, optimized growth, intake, and intestinal health in piglet diets. The efficacy of plasma proteins as animal feed has been evidenced through their capacity to bolster biomass gain, alleviate stress in various species, diminish mortality attributed to specific pathogens, and confer immune-modulating benefits across diverse species. Presently, the mode of action of SDP revolves around upholding intestinal barrier function to hinder pathogen dissemination and elevating digestive enzyme activity, thereby conserving nutrients for conversion into biomass (Torrallardona, 2010; Polo et al., 2017; Balan et al., 2021).
In the realm of poultry diets, SDP stands as a highly digestible protein source. Its exceptional apparent metabolizable energy and standardized ileal amino acid digestibility, even in young chicks (7–10 days old), position it as an advantageous element for inclusion in chick starter diets (Khadour et al., 2022).
Despite these facts, the use of spray-dried animal plasma in aquaculture remains limited. Nevertheless, potential advantages of animal plasma in fostering elevated digestibility have been noted in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss, Bureau et al., 1999), Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus, De Araújo et al., 2017), and gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) fingerlings (Gisbert et al., 2015; Tapia-Paniagua et al., 2020). Various experts hypothesize that these findings could be attributed to the heightened digestibility of SDP, advancements in feed efficiency and intake, and the presence of growth-promoting factors. Beyond its role as a source of highly digestible dietary protein, SDP has garnered endorsement in livestock and aquaculture feeds for its immunological support properties, stemming from its immune-modulatory components such as immunoglobulins and bioactive peptides (Pérez-Bosque et al., 2016; Campbell et al., 2010). Specifically, aquafeeds incorporating SDP have exhibited enhancement in local gut and systemic immunity in sea bream (Gisbert et al., 2015; Vallejos-Vidal et al., 2022, Reyes-López et al., 2021), elevation in leukocyte, lymphocyte, and neutrophil counts in tilapia (de Araujo et al., 2017), and augmentation of skin mucus antibacterial capability in meagre Argyrosomus regius (Fernández-Alacid et al., 2021). While the benefits of SDPP in livestock diets are widely acknowledged, the literature on the immunomodulatory effects of its dietary inclusion in aquatic feeds remains limited, especially under the backdrop of varying biotic and abiotic stressors. For now, research has indicated that the favorable impacts of spray-dried animal plasma in fish diets align with outcomes observed in terrestrial animals.
In the context of the burgeoning expansion of global aquaculture and the constrained accessibility of fishmeal and krill – historically primary sources of amino acids for aquaculture – there is a burgeoning interest in unearthing alternative protein sources to fulfill the nutritional requisites of these aquatic creatures. Grounded in the results of numerous studies, SDP showcases promising potential as a secure and valuable constituent in the nutrition of aquatic organisms.
Spray-dried plasma contains a water content lower than 10 g/100 g, 7–11 g/100 g of ash, and 70–80 g/100 g of protein. SDP had the highest crude protein (CP) concentration (>78%) among the five feedstuffs tested by Zhang et al. (2015) (albumen powder,73.2%; fish meal, 67.2%; dried porcine solubles, 51.7%; and spray-dried egg, 42.8%). Although the protein content of SDAP is lower than that of casein (96 g/100 g), the quality of this protein (based on amino acid composition) is relatively high. Regarding the contents of essential amino acids (EAAs), SDP is superior to soybean protein. SDP contains a relatively high concentration of Lys, His, Trp, and Thr when compared to isolated soy protein, maize gluten meal, and soybean meal, but at the same time, it has relatively low concentration of Met. The amino acids limiting the quality of the protein are mainly Ile and Met + Cys (Kazimierska & Biel, 2023).
In a study evaluating the chemical and biological characteristics of spray-dried plasma protein collected from various locations around the world, no differences were found in SDAP protein content when plants manufacturing similar products were compared (Borg et al., 2002). Overall, blood products are a good source of nutrients, especially due to the high content of essential amino acids, but also due to the high content of minerals, especially iron.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
1981
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
500
In what country is your company headquartered?
Ankeny, Iowa. United States of America
What types of products does your company currently produce?
We are producing products derived from the blood fractions for use in a variety of applications:
– Spray dried plasma from porcine or bovine origin for use in pets food and farm animals feed as functional protein
-Spray-dried red cells from porcine or bovine origin for use in pets and farm animals feed as source of nutritional and digestible protein
-Spray-dried serum for use in specific applications in lactating calves
-Spray-dried hydrolyzed plasma as source of functional bioactive peptides for use in pets and farm animals feed
-Spray-dried hydrolyzed red cells as source of functional bioactive peptides and free amino acids for use in farm animals and agro industry as biostimulants for crops of high interest
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
APC distributes our products to more than 60 countries worldwide across North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia.
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
It’s important to maximize the value of all our resources, including by-products like blood. APC collects blood that would otherwise have little to no value and turns it into red cells and plasma. The red cells become a highly digestible protein used in a wide variety of animal foods while plasma is specially processed to retain biologically active functional proteins. When used in plasma functional proteins help support the immune system, reduce inflammation and improve health and well-being.
Reclaiming otherwise discarded by-products from meat production makes our overall food production footprint smaller, saves landfill space, and helps minimize the environmental impacts of animal agriculture.
We strive to continuously reduce our energy usage and invest in technologies to lower our carbon footprint. APC captures the heat produced by our dryers and reuses it in other processes and invests in solar panels to offset the use of gas and electricity.
Reusing and reducing water is a priority during the manufacture of blood derived products and requires innovative techniques. APC recycles clean tank water and collaborates with landowners to use reclaimed wastewater for field irrigation.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
In APC we have being investing during years in understand if our functional plasma proteins can have a positive impact in the health and productivity of different aqua fish species. However, even with all the positive results that we have been obtained in almost all the studies conducted, the reality is that the use of SDP in aquaculture diets is still very limited. However, we strongly believe that our functional ingredient can be a important tool in fish nutrition and being selected by this challenge will provide us the internal and external recognition to be considered by the Aqua sector as a suitable ingredient in fish diets.
Media Contact Name
Oriol Gallostra, Head of Digital Transformation & Communication
Email
oriol.gallostra@lucta.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Lucta is a global company, founded in Barcelona (Spain) in 1949, dedicated to the manufacture of fragrances, flavors and animal feed additives.
Are you registering in partnership with another company?
Lucta and Unibio will partner to design a customized product for the F3 Challenge, meeting the nutritional, functional and palatability characteristics required to successfully replace krill meal in aquafeeds. This will be accomplished by combining a sensory additive from Lucta, acting as a functional palatability enhancer, with the superior nutritional qualities of Uniprotein® from Unibio.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
The product is a combination of a Lucta-produced sensory additive, consisting of a blend of chemosensory active substances that enhances sensory cues of attractive smell and taste, triggering fish appetite, with Uniprotein®, a Single Cell Protein (SCP) produced by Unibio from the fermentation of Methylococcus capsulatus. Uniprotein® contains approximately 68% protein as-is, and has an amino acid profile resembling that of fishmeal, a favourable mineral content and a good digestibility. Lucta’s additive contains natural (of non-animal origin) and synthetic components that act as potent feeding cues, by signalling the presence of good quality protein in the feed, as well as small peptides acting as functional supplements that improve gut function and feeding efficiency. This, together with the superior nutritional qualities of Uniprotein, should result in a product with the nutritional, functional and palatability characteristics required to successfully replace krill meal in aquafeeds.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
1949
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
1100+
In what country is your company headquartered?
Spain
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Sustainable solutions for palatability, efficiency, and animal welfare, as well as products for the preservation of feed, ingredients and premixes.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
In 96 countries worldwide.
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$360,000,000.00
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
We promote sustainable development through an inclusive business model, the promotion of innovative solutions and products, and the latest technologies investments.
To ensure continuous improvement and alignment with our sustainability objectives, we have implemented crosscutting tracking systems that allow us to monitor our operations and the results of our sustainability initiatives, identify areas for improvement and make informed decisions in the future.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
In demand for sustainable and innovative solutions, we are constantly developing new products to improve the efficiency of feeding and metabolic use of nutrients of existing and emerging feed ingredients, to contribute to people’s and animals’ resilience to climate change and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, prioritizing raw materials with sustainability and/or circularity criteria.
Media Contact Name
Alban Caratis, Global Aquaculture Manager
Email
a.caratis@phileo.lesaffre.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
At Phileo by Lesaffre we act with nature for animal care, using beneficial micro-organisms to naturally improve animal health and nutrition. Our rich collection of proprietary probiotic strains allows us to develop evidence-based solutions taking into account animal species’ diversity to overcome the increasing complexity of the challenges facing the industry. Our innovation process relies on a careful selection of those strains with proven benefits, a true fermentation excellence and state of the art downstream processes.
More information here: https://phileo-lesaffre.com/en/about-us/
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Our proposed solution for this challenge leverages on the synergistic effects of our purified yeast extract (Prosaf 632), functional protein (Nutrisaf 503), and health additives, all produced within our company. We have developed a concept diet that aims to support production performance in feeds where krill meal has been substituted, without compromising health and welfare of animals. We have notably placed efforts on supporting essential physiological functions, including immune system support, inflammation regulation, and promotion of gut health, all while ensuring inclusion rates that are financially viable for producers.
Through previous trials conducted in Asia and LATAM with shrimp and marine fish, we have demonstrated the successful preservation and improvement of animal performance and health when fed with limited or no marine ingredients, utilizing Prosaf 632 and Nutrisaf 503 as substitutes. Participation in the F3 challenge provides us with the opportunity to replicate this approach to a new species and contribute to the ongoing development of a more sustainable and resource-efficient salmon industry.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
Yes
What year was your company founded?
Since 1853, the Lesaffre group is the global leader in fermentation & yeast production.
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
11000
In what country is your company headquartered?
France
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Our group produces a complete range of probiotics and postbiotics from yeast and bacteria. We distinguish ourselves through our industrial excellence. Today, two-thirds of our employees work in our 77 industrial facilities and produce thousands of tons of yeast every day to be distributed around the world. In less than two weeks, they can transform a microorganism weighing just a few micrograms into several hundred tons of yeast ౼ a clear example of the added value of our expertise. We have recently extended this industrial excellence in fermentation of bacteria and fungi.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Phileo by Lesaffre currently provides, with the help of its local partners and local entities, solutions for animal health in more than 60 countries. All of the products proposed as part of this challenge are produced at industrial scale and distributed globally.
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$2,700,000,000.00
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Respectful of animals and the planet, we are passionate and dedicated into building a world where animal care should be a priority in order to spare our planet resources. We have put in place 4 strong commitments to find solutions to answer the growing demand for animal protein while building a sustainable agri-food future:
1 – Promote employee wellbeing and development,
2 – Support family farmers and protect biodiversity,
3 – Ensure feed to food security and safety,
4 – Spare planet resources and mitigate climate change,
More information here: https://phileo-lesaffre.com/en/sustainability/
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
This challenge perfectly aligns with our company’s overarching goal of “working together to better nourish and protect the planet.” One of the key factors in addressing such industry-wide issue is fostering partnerships and collaboration, and this challenge provides an ideal platform to facilitate such endeavors.
The solutions we propose, Prosaf and Nutrisaf, have been specifically designed to contribute to the reduction of marine ingredients and less sustainable sources of proteins in aquaculture diets. This objective aligns seamlessly with the foundation of this challenge. To transform this vision into a reality, our company operates four production sites across different continents, solely dedicated to manufacturing our range of alternative proteins. This diverse global presence allows us to potentially cater the needs of the aquaculture industry on a worldwide scale and contribute to ensuring end-consumers the food they eat has no negative impact on the planet.
Lastly, by expanding our focus to the salmon industry, we see an opportunity to make a significant impact in terms of conserving natural resources, which is a key element in our sustainability mission.
Media Contact Name
Alex Wright Aylwin, Sr. Business Development Management
Email
alex.wright@prezero.us
Please provide a short description of your company.
PreZero is a world leading recycling company. The organics division is focused on upcycling preconsumer food waste through the black soldier fly (AAFCO approved ingredient for salmonids).
Our facility in California will be up and running late Q4 ’24 // early Q1 ’25 and will process 650 t/day of food waste, generating roughly 5.000 tons of BSF meal and 3.000 tons of BSF oil.
the facility will be water neutral and we are striving to make it a zero waste operation.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Black soldier fly meal – 58% protein
Black soldier fly oil
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
100
In what country is your company headquartered?
USA
What types of products does your company currently produce?
BSF meal
BSF oil
BSF whole dried larvae
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
US and Canada
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
New thinking for a cleaner tomorrow.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
We aim to repurpose food waste and recycle nutrients, putting them back into the feed chain safely and sustainably.
Media Contact Name
Emma Jones, Sales & Marketing Manager
Email
emma@nutrition-technologies.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Nutrition Technologies manufacture and supply sustainable animal feed ingredients and biofertilisers, using a unique combination of biotechnology and Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL) to recycle nutrients from agricultural and food processing by-products. Our insect-based products help feed the growing agriculture and feed industries around the world. These products are suitable for application in pet food, livestock and aquatic feed, and have a range of proven functional benefits which improve the animals’ health and growth.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Black Soldier Fly Larvae (Hermetia illucens) meal. The larvae are fed a plant-based diet composed of factory-grade food waste. Our commercial facility has been approved to export insect ingredients to the European Union and, as such, complies with EU regulations on insect feeds. Our facility is also GMP and HACCP certified and uses a proprietary fermentation system of feedstock inputs to enhance safety and quality. To create the krill replacement product, we employed a proprietary feed formula and processing method designed to enhance the insect meal’s palatability and performance.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2015
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
150-200
In what country is your company headquartered?
Singapore
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Hi.Protein insectmeal: A high-value functional ingredient with multiple non-nutritive benefits that will enhance your animal’s health and performance.
Hi.Frass: An organic fertiliser & soil conditioner, rich in organic matter and key nutrients. Ideal in compound fertiliser production or direct field application. A natural way to decrease the use of chemical fertilizer and enhance soil quality and fertility.
Hi. Oil: A health-promoting oil, with an attractive fatty acid profile. This unique source of energy is ideal for monogastric species including dogs, cats, poultry and swine.
Diptia: is derived from Black Soldier Fly frass that has been fermented and enhanced with anti-fungal microbes and added chitin to improve the plant’s natural defenses against pathogenic microbes, such as fungal diseases in the soil; boosting the plant and soil health.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
USA, EU, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Our business model is based around nature’s own decomposition ecology to create a virtuous cycle, reusing today’s waste to make tomorrow’s raw materials. As we look to close the loop, building a circular economy, we recognise that we are one part of a wave of change helping to create a more sustainable and inclusive tomorrow.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) help chart a course towards that future. Here at Nutrition Technologies, we demonstrate our commitment by aligning with and measuring ourselves against, the relevant UN SDGs.
For more information: https://www.nutrition-technologies.com/sustainability
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
Nutrition Technologies was founded on the understanding that ‘business as usual’ is destroying the world we live in, and that there is an urgent need to do better. Initially formed to address specific environmental issues – namely the damaging use of fishmeal and soybean meal in animal feed – we have since come to realise that there are multiple wider issues that also need to be addressed at a foundational level, to ensure we do not risk sacrificing fundamental principles in the pursuit of others.
For this reason, Nutrition Technologies has subscribed to the UN Global Compact, and is adopting the 10 principles of sustainable development alongside our ambition of reducing the impact on oceans and forests for the production of animal feed.
At Nutrition Technologies, we produce insect protein and oil to offer alternatives to the feed industry, looking to reduce their consumption of unsustainable ingredients sourced from the oceans. Today we are seeing 30 percent of the world’s fish stocks overexploited, reaching below the level at which they can produce sustainable yields [Source: UNDP]. We recycle the nutrients in food waste and industrial by-products to create the raw materials for animal feed, including palatants and protein alternatives.
Replacing Krill with our product as an attractant and as a nutrional additive is just the first step towards the goal of sustainable feed production. We strive to fully replace the current protein sources with insect meal as an eco-friendly alternative.
Media Contact Name
Larry Feinberg, CEO
Email
lfeinberg@knipbio.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
KnipBio is a fermentation based, functional single cell protein company, with its headquarters located in the Boston area. The company has pioneered its technology using an alternative, non-food based feedstock and with >50 animal trials to its credit to date, has been one of the first firms to receive regulatory approvals for its product in the USA (FDA GRAS) and Canada (CFIA). Today the product has reached the metric tonnage scale in terms of production and is in the process of commercializing its first products into specialty applications.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Our intial functional single cell protein is being marketed as juvenile feed ingredient to provide greater resiliency and stress reduction to animals that experience both predictable and unpredictable stressors. The result, as born out by the products’ adoption at some of North America’s largest farms, is an improved ROI from improved on-farm yield. It naturally containes anti-oxidant compounds, gut healthy compounds and an incredibly high digestible protein content. This protein is of course non-marine derived, but also has the potential to be carbon-negative, depending on the source of feedstock used to support fermentation.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2013
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
4
In what country is your company headquartered?
United States
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Functional single cell protein derived from the leaf symbiont, methylobacterium extorquens.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
USA, Canada, Thailand, Australia and soon several LatAm countries.
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$150,000.00
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
Krill is typically used as a palatant and is a specialized ingredient to support highly sensitive life stages in aquaculture. KnipBio’s ingredient should offer many similar benefits in terms of naturally occuring anti-oxidants and digestible protein, but more. Specifically, our product contains the gut microbiome enhancing molecule PHB and can be engineered to provide other critical nutrients in a tailored nutrition fashion.
Importantly, our product included in a commercial feed at 5% inclusion rate, was demonstrated on-farm, and at scale (ex. 100,000’s fish per replicate), to preserve aggressive feeding behavior throughout a predictable stressful event (ex outplanting), even in the face of a bacterial disease outbreak.
This challenge will help us establish that single cell proteins can be used in highly specific applications, beyond bulk commodity protein, while preserving precious marine resources and improving productivity on the farm.
Media Contact Name
Heidi Heyvaert, International Marketing Manager
Email
heyvaert@orffa.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Orffa Additives BV. is a Dutch-Belgian company with a global network. With offices, distributors and representatives in all significant animal protein production countries, we provide feed solutions. Our goal is to add value to animal protein, whilst at the same time optimizing animal efficiency, health and welfare.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
At Orffa we developed a stable, constant quality betaine source called Excential Beta-Key. This betaine source, in the form of betaine HCl, is known to work as an attractant, osmoregulator, stress reliever and disease resilience enhancer.
Because of this, we believe that Excential Beta-Key can be (part of) the solution to decrease or remove marine-based ingredients in aquaculture diets.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
1967
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
135
In what country is your company headquartered?
Netherlands
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Feed Additives
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
All over the world
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
We have an Ecovadis gold reward for sustainability. Our goal is to keep this and to become even more sustainable.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
With our feed solutions, we want to contribute to a more sustainable aquaculture production. By adding our additives we can achieve those goals. So investigating if our product would allow krill meal to be reduced is very valuable.
Media Contact Name
Simon Delys, Marketing & Communications Officer
Email
simon.delys@symrise.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances, flavors, food and cosmetic ingredients.
Symrise Aqua Feed is a part of Symrise group dedicated to the aquaculture industry, developing, testing, and manufacturing sustainable ingredients and palatability enhancers that help aquafeed manufacturers produce high-performance diet and feed with low carbon footprint.
Symrise Aqua Feed is using strictly by-products as raw materials and is specialized in protein valorization. Our main markets are shrimp feed and then salmonids feed as well as other carnivorous fish feed.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
The product we would like to submit has been designed to help replacing marine proteins in aqua feed diets like fish meal or krill meal. It has been formulated to improve specifically feeding behavior of carnivorous fish species
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
1874
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
12000
In what country is your company headquartered?
Germany
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Palatability enhancers to restore the taste of feeds, help increase plant-based protein and novel ingredients in diets, as well as to boost the feeding behavior of fish and shrimp under stressful farming conditions.
Functional protein hydrolysates to boost fish and shrimp health.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Main business for Symrise Aqua Feed is in Ecuador, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, China, Norway, Chile, South Europe, South Korea, Australia, …
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Symrise Aqua Feed DNA is by-products valorization, mostly of marine origin. We believe that we can bring high value to by-products to help the aquaculture industry reducing the use of wild catch in feed while improving their functionalities.
Media Contact Name
Markus Chin, Global Business Development Manager
Email
markus.chin@jfnutritech.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
JF Nutritech is a specialty lipids company that is committed to developing proprietary technology to extract, process, and manufacture plant-based functional lipid products for commercial applications in livestock. At JF Nutritech, our vision is to revolutionize the market by spearheading innovation with natural and chemical-free functional nutrition solutions that enhance farm productivity while aligning with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles. Our mission is to help farmers produce safe, cost-effective, nutritious food and to contribute our part towards achieving sustainability in food security and production process.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Phytofat Ruby is our Next Generation Nutrients Enriched Oil for Monogastric and Aquaculture. Our Phytofat Ruby aims to improve productivity, pigmentation, and meat quality. Phytofat Ruby is developed using our innovative and patented First Cut Technology which allows us to retain and enhance the levels of inherent phytonutrients and polyphenols from the plant source. Our patented First Cut Processing Technology not only ensures that our product is entirely derived from plant sources but also enhances the concentration and quality of Vitamin A (Beta-Carotene) and Vitamin E (Tocotrienols). The unique natural matrix of functional nutrients with potent antioxidant properties supports improvements in feed conversion ratio, average daily gain and survival rate by boosting the immune system. Incorporating Phytofat Ruby into livestock diets, particularly in aquaculture, offers versatility and practicality for both feed formulators in the industry and farmers at the farm site.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2020
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
Less than 50
In what country is your company headquartered?
Malaysia
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Currently, our range of products are applicable to Ruminants, Monogastric and Aquaculture (Fish and Shrimps).
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Some of the countries include Korea, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Iran, Vietnam.
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$100,000.00
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
We envision a future where sustainable practices are at the core of our operations. One of our primary objectives is to replace fish oil with a more sustainable plant-based oil. By doing so, we aim to support farmers in producing safe, cost-effective, and nutritious food while reducing the impact on marine ecosystems. This shift towards a plant-based alternative aligns with our mission to contribute positively to the environment.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
This challenge aligns well with our company’s vision and goals. Being a specialty lipids company, our company’s core expertise lies in developing proprietary technology for plant-based functional lipid products. We are confident of our solutions, promoting sustainability and environmentally friendly solutions alternative to krill-derived products, and this challenge allows us to showcase our expertise, contribute to all-around performance, and further our commitment to providing better nutrition and improving the livestock industry.
Media Contact Name
Ivonne Lozano, Director
Email
ivonneok@mac.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
CCYAA is a company with 20 years of experience, born in Baja California Mexico.
We’re currently located in Mexico and Chile, where we focus on providing services to the food sector in Latin America. CCYAA is group of experts and professionals committed to sustainable food production.
We aim to achieve sustainability through production systems that incorporate practices that help sustain the environment.
We carefully manage the entire value chain in order to guarantee food safety and nutritional security that do not compromise the environmental resources for our future generations.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
It is a natural product made from a strain of microalgae isolated from the northern coast of Chile.
The product cannot be subjected to high temperatures (extrusion), it must be incorporated in the oiling stage.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
1991
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
6
In what country is your company headquartered?
Chile
What types of products does your company currently produce?
None. Our company has been working on research into natural products obtained from microalgae since 2018. This year we have applied for funds to scale up to a pilot level and start market testing of our products.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Our company provides consulting and training services to the food industry in Chile, Mexico, Ecuador and Peru.
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$100,000.00
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
We carefully manage the entire value chain in order to guarantee food safety and nutritional security that do not compromise the environmental resources for our future generations.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
We understand that this challenge is intended to support sustainable aquaculture, this is of great interest to us, and we want to prove that natural products from the same marine ecosystem can be used for this.
Media Contact Name
Bobbie Thoman, Managing Partner
Email
bthoman@stratiumusa.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Stratium is initiating the global shift to sustainable insect protein through technology and innovation.
It is estimated that the shortfall in global protein for animals is now 2.5 million tons annually; with continued population growth, it will increase. Our insect protein is addressing this growing market gap.
After 10+ years of research in biotechnologies, Stratium was founded in 2023 to upcycle food waste, e.g., fruit pomace and beer mash, into protein and fat to be used as ingredients for fish and animal feeds by farming Hermetia illucens, commonly known as the black soldier fly.
This circular economic approach is promising in a world where food waste is clogging landfills, and the urgent need to feed a global population of 8.5 billion by 2030 is costly and complicated. Our customers need a consistent, high quality, sustainable product to supplement and ultimately displace the growing global demand for wild caught proteins.
Fishmeal is a readily available protein ingredient for many pet and animal feeds, however global production of fishmeal has reached its limits and is experiencing further disruption through extreme weather events and a possible decrease in catch from ocean acidification.
Soy and corn have been long sought after sources of protein replacement for animal feeds and fish feeds, but these systems are in flux. As protein shortages occur around the world, corn and soy will be pushed to human consumption, leaving a gap in protein availability for animal consumption.
There is a massive market demand for the production of safe, reliable, consistent domestic protein production in the United States, and insect agriculture is a rapidly expanding industry that has the ability to bridge the gap between food waste and the protein shortage. Stratium is here to address that gap.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
We can provide protein and fat analysis.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2023
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
3
In what country is your company headquartered?
United States
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Protein Powder – high protein feed ingredient
Fatty Butter – a nutritious, sustainable fat
Frass Fertilizer – an organic soil amendment
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
United States
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
Stratium’s mission is to contribute to regional, circular food systems by upcycling food and organic waste into a protein dense feed ingredient for fish and animal feeds. Our goals and values are directly aligned with F3’s mission to displace the need for wild-caught ingredients by producing a sustainable, domestically produced product.
Media Contact Name
Dean Smorenburg, CEO
Email
dean@maltento.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Maltento produces functional ingredients for aquaculture and pet food from sustainable raw materials. We utilise by-products of the food sector (spent grain) to farm the black soldier fly. This allows us to produce consistent, quality and traceable larvae. The insects are then hydrolysed with enzymes and cooked to produce an attractive aroma and flavour. We are the largest producer of insects-for-feed in South Africa and the first, globally, to commercialise our digest / pallatant into both aquaculture and pet food. We have produced >150 tonnes of the pet food digest and supply the largest trout manufacturer in Africa too.
Our product is a digest and not an insect protein. This is a ~3% inclusion coating on the pellet. The product comes in a liquid and dry version.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
We have performed trials with Virginia Tech University in the USA and had successful trial results on feed response, FCR, and feed intake / weight gain. We have also had interesting results when challenges with disease (aeromonas) and other stress events (water temp >26 degrees celsius where we had significantly lower mortality rates as a result.
We believe that our product is much more than a feed response stimulator and the value is in how the product stimulates the gut microbiome of the fish and influences immunity.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2018
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
65
In what country is your company headquartered?
South Africa
What types of products does your company currently produce?
digest / pallatant for dry dog food
digest for aquaculture commercially sold in trout
pet chicken treats from our whole dried larvae
protein meal and oil for dog food from our full-fat meal
chitosan from the exoskeletons of the insect
frass for agriculture
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
USA, Europe, UK, South Africa
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$1,000,000.00
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
We are a purpose-driven business and believe we need to partner with nature to find the solutions. We want to produce high-quality products that do not compromise on performance, nor do they cost the earth to produce.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
We believe our digest will allow a lower / no krill meal to be added. The current trials at Virginia Tech and commercial feedback has shown a higher weight gain when fed our digest. This means, we are able to cut down on the time to grow fish to commercial value, reducing the feed, energy, water and labour required in the later days of fish growth. Significantly impacting the footprint of aquaculture at a competitive price.
Media Contact Name
Kareen Lee, Marketing Executive
Email
kareen.lee@adisseo.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Bluestar Adisseo Company (Adisseo), a world leader in feed additives for animal nutrition, and the world’s leading alternative protein producer, Calysta, signed an agreement to establish the joint venture named Calysseo to develop FeedKind®, an innovative feed solution for aquaculture, and to provide exclusive supply for Asian markets. The strategic partnership will also see the construction, in China, of the world’s first commercial FeedKind® production facility, with the first phase expected to start operating in 2022, delivering 20,000 tonnes of FeedKind® protein per year.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
The product will use a combination of the Single Cell Protein FeedKind® and functional additives from Adisseo group and Adisseo partner companies.
Are you registering in partnership with other companies for development purposes?
Yes – Adisseo and Calysta
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2020
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
Overall >2500 for Adisseo and Calysta
In what country is your company headquartered?
China
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Single Cell Protein: more infos on https://calysta.com/. Feed additives: more infos on https://www.adisseo.com/en/
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Only in China for the Single Cell Protein FeedKind®. Adisseo functional additives products are distributed globally.
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
>$2 Billion
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Calysseo/Adisseo’s commitment is clear: Contribute to supplying the world with healthy, high-quality and affordable food based on principles of sustainability. For more details please visit: https://www.adisseo.com/en/sustainability/
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
Our mission goal fit with the F3 goals by participating to a challenge that aim to reduce non-sustainable and non-renewable sources of proteins in Aquafeeds. It also target a key major aquaculture species (Salmon) that is widely consumed worldwide. So the impact on preserving natural resources can be significant.
Media Contact Name
Andre Bok, Managing Director
Email
andre@a-m-t.co.za
Please provide a short description of your company.
Aqua Management Technologies (AMT) is a specialist high-quality aquaculture feed manufacture and supply company. Our premix (AMT Basemix) enhances the digestibility of standard aquaculture feed ingredients , reducing waste in the production system and resulting in overall improved health and condition of fish produced using AMT feed. The feed application technique is an important of the digestibility process.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
The AMT basemix is designed to enhance the digestibility of standard feed ingredients, making it ideal for use in recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) farms. In doing so, the feed is less dependent on marine ingredients. AMT feed is being used successfully at a land-based marine fish farm in South Africa.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2017
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
4
In what country is your company headquartered?
South Africa
What types of products does your company currently produce?
AMT Intensive Marine Feed, Sizes: Crumble to 8mm pellet. AMT Intensive Salmon and Trout Feed, Sizes: Crumble to 8mm pellet. AMT Aqua Platinum Koi Feed, Sizes: Crumble to 8mm pellet.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
South Africa
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$300,000.00
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
The AMT feed range optimizes the digestibility of the raw materials in its feed in order to reduce its reliance on marine protein feed ingredients.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
Perfectly. Ideally, we would have preferred to include some marine protein raw materials in order to optimize growth performance, but if the feed formulation is standard for all participants, then the evaluation parameters will be equal and fair.
Media Contact Name
Lina Wang, Assistant General Manager
Email
wln@fatide.com
Phone Number
+86-18101812696
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
Media Contact Name
Yashraj Jariwala, Co-founder & CEO
Email
yjariwala@shaivaa.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Shaivaa Algaetech LLP is an Indian biotechnology company that focuses on providing innovative and sustainable algae-based solutions for the animal and human nutrition market. Since the inception of our company in 2019, our vision has been to solve the surging need of manufacturing novel ingredients that serve both ecological benefits and nutritional needs of human and animal health. Our focus is to nurture humanity back to life, with life.
Our name is derived from the combination of the Sanskrit word “SHAIVAL” meaning algae, and Lord Shiva, the supreme deity who creates, protects, and transforms the universe. We firmly believe that algae, akin to Lord Shiva, possess the remarkable ability to sustain and revolutionize the living world, a role they have fulfilled for billions of years. We are motivated to make this transformative power of algae accessible to the world; being cost-effective and insightful to provide innovative solutions that harness the potential of algae and empower individuals and industries alike to benefit from its extraordinary properties. Through our dedication to research, development, and cutting-edge technologies, we strive to unlock the true potential of algae and explore its numerous applications in various sectors. From sustainable food and nutrition to renewable energy and environmental remediation, Shaivaa Algaetech is committed to delivering forward-thinking and eco-friendly solutions that shape a better future for all. With the power of microalgae, let’s enter a new era of sustainability, transformation and healthy revolution.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Our product is a unique plant-based oil formulation of the algae-derived Omega 3 fatty acids (DHA and EPA) powered with phospholipids and the strongest antioxidant on earth- Astaxanthin. These high nutritional elements packed together with their high environmental sustainability quotient makes our product a one-of-a kind formulation for the ever-growing animal-nutrition market. Our product is a sustainable formulation of ingredients extracted mainly from micro-algae and other plant sources. A literal replacement for krill, which is safer, cleaner and traceable. Moreover, it is a source of proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and other compounds adequate for animal feed formulations.
Algae would also be more widely available than fishmeal, which will overcome the “wild catch” constraint that has prevented the buildup and development of Aquaculture facilities worldwide. The use of algae as substitute of fishmeal provides additional benefits which include improvement on taste and consistency of flesh, increase in Omega 3 fatty acid content, and increase on the rate of growth of the aquatic species due to better digestibility.
Microalgae is a proper alternative compound rich in unsaturated fatty acids to replace krill in fishmeal. Microalgal lipids have a slightly higher concentration of omega-3 fatty acids such as EPA and DHA as well as less chemical contamination compared to fish oil. They contain up to 70% protein and are an inexpensive alternative protein source with balanced protein profile.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2019
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
15
In what country is your company headquartered?
India
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Our focus lies on manufacturing micro-algal ingredients for the human and animal nutrition markets. Currently, we offer Natural Astaxanthin and Omega 3 DHA/EPA products.
Natural Astaxanthin is one of the strongest antioxidants present in our food chain and Haematococcus microalgae is one of the few sources of this ketocarotenoid. We cultivate and further downstream process the product at our own facility.
Omega 3 EPA/DHA are one of the most important PUFAs in the daily human diet. We are cultivating the Omega 3 directly from its actual source- Schizochytrium and Nannochloropsis micro-algae.
Products are available in variants such as biomass, oleoresin, CWD powder, CWD liquid, Softgels, Gummies etc.
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
HARNESS THE POTENTIAL OF MICROALGAE FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE-
The goal is to create products and processes—new ways of sustainable living—that are well-adapted to life on earth over the long haul.
We do not simply accept industrial processes that consume high amounts of energy and leave a high carbon footprint.
We have an approach to innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies. The core idea is that nature has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with and that technology can imitate the functioning of the ecosystems.
Besides giving the world about 70% of its oxygen, algae have been an important food source to humans for generations. Today, we are on the cusp of great innovation. Algae is now being recognized for its potential—as a tool for creation!
Our goals are to develop, produce and deliver high quality natural products for human & animal nutrition from algae.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
Microalgae play a vital role in aquatic ecosystems being the foundation of the food chain for all aquatic organisms. They perform photosynthesis, which is an important natural mechanism to reduce the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration through converting sunlight, water and CO2 to algal biomass and oxygen.
Microalgae is a promising alternative food source in the production of fishmeal which improves the nutritional value of aquaculture feed and reduces the pressure on fish and fish oil.
Application of microalgae as food source for fish enhances the nutritional profile of feed, provides antioxidative and disease preventative benefits, and decreases the number of krill/fish used in fishmeal. Microalgae are nutritionally superior, grow fast, require less land, have no need for arable land and can be grown in seawater which make them a sustainable food source for fish.
Due to their high nutritional and functional value, microalgae have a high potential for application in the feed industry, being incorporated as a feed supplement, enhancing animal performance. A synthetic counterpart does exist and costs about half as much, but it is produced from petrochemical sources which raise questions related to toxicity and sustainability. Current market prospects for omega-3, on the other hand, are hindered by production methods. Despite the fact that omega-3 are primarily found in microalgae, producers have been focusing on fish and krill oils because of their lower cost. This makes the whole sector very unlikely to meet the growing demand. We believe in improving the health of our ecosystem while doing it the right way for our planet. However, of the several thousand microalgae species, few are currently commercialized.
This challenge is an exciting platform and opportunity to showcase the potential of microalgae for health promotion and environmental protection and replace the ‘use and throw’ model which has led to unbalanced nutrient cycles.
To meet our global climate change targets and achieve a sustainable equilibrium, we need to work towards a circular economy that eliminates waste and pollution, keeps system in circulation and regenerates nature.
Media Contact Name
Karim Kurmaly, Director Smart Protein
Email
Karim.kurmaly@dsm.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Biotechnology driven company developing sustainable innovative solutions at industrial scale for the feed and food industries in nutrition, health and beauty.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Developing a palatable protein ingredient that can replace krill as an ingredient in aqua feeds.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
Yes
What year was your company founded?
Over 100 years ago
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
1000+
In what country is your company headquartered?
Netherlands
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Palatants, taste enhancers, carotenoids, enzymes, perfumes and vitamins, all that are sustainable and contribute to health, nutrition and beauty. We combine what is essential to what is desirable and sustainable.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Global distribution.
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$10.00
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
We have committed to SBTi goals and are reviewing SBTn targets.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
Supporting marine and terrestrial biodiversity by developing sustainable solutions which are de-coupled from marine fisheries and agriculture, and have their own unique supply chains with minimal carbon footprint.
Media Contact Name
Samuel Correa Moreno, Product Manager
Email
scorrea@bioiberica.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
We are a life science company, that specializes in animal tissue extraction to develop biomolecules that contribute to life. Our main business is heparin extraction from porcine intestinal mucosa, from this manufacturing process we obtain our porcine intestinal mucosa hydrolysate for our animal nutrition business unit and bio-stimulants for plant health business unit. We also produce other biomolecules that aim to promote health for humans, animals and plants.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Our Palbio products, Palbio 50 and Palbio 62 are two different protein hydrolysates from porcine intestinal mucosa, that have a different manufacturing process. For instance, Palbio 50 is dried in a fluid bed in which we use treated 47% soy as a carrier, plus our porcine intestinal mucosa, which will eventually become a functional protein, containing bioactive peptides, highly palatable and highly digestible product, with 50% Crude Protein content. On the other hand Palbio 62 is spray dried, without any carrier, which will result in a product containing 62% Crude Protein , with the same functionality due to the presence of bioactive peptides, and its high palatability and digestibility characteristics.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
1975
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
450
In what country is your company headquartered?
Spain
What types of products does your company currently produce?
We produce active pharmaceutical ingredients, such as heparin, which is our core business and other ingredients such as type II collagen, hyaluronic acid matrix, glucosamine, chondroitin for human and animal health.
Our animal nutrition business unit manufactures hydrolysates of porcine intestinal mucosa and free nucleotide extracts derived from yeast, while our veterinary business unit develops finished products targeting intestinal, skin and joint health. Moreover, we have a plant health business unit that develops a complete range of bio-stimulants for agricultural sector.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
In approximately 80 countries, in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa and Oceania.
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$565,000,000.00
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Bioiberica’s production strategy is 100% a Circular Bioeconomy. Starting with raw materials of 100% biological origin and using processes designed to minimize the consumption of water, energy and auxiliary raw materials, we obtain 100% efficient and sustainable final products.
At Bioiberica we’re convinced the principles of sustainability, economic efficiency, social fairness and environmental responsibility guarantee the continuity of our business and propel us into the future. We therefore want to progress even further with our Circular Bio-economy strategy with the aim of improving the health and well-being of people, animals and plants and thereby improving the global health of the planet.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
One of our missions in the recent years has been trying to use our products to replace fish meal and fish oils, in order to reduce wild capture fisheries for aquafeed production, as this is becoming an increased threat to marine biodiversity. Thereby, this challenge is interesting to gain more visibility of our products in the aquaculture sector, and bring alternatives to fish feed producers by offering sustainable products with functional properties that will positively contribute to fish health and reduce the use of Krill.
This perfectly aligns with our company’s mission and values which is to have a positive impact on life, science and sustainability.
Media Contact Name
Salamahafifi Yusnaieny, Director
Email
info@protenga.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
We are making insects work for you! Protenga is a world leader in circular nutrition, making insect innovation accessible for a sustainable future. We develop data-driven insect technology that produces best-in-class, sustainable nutrition for animals and plants and enables a circular food system. e develop insect breeding, farming and processing solutions and products with the Black Soldier Fly (BSF, hermetia illucens) as our insect of choice.
Protenga’s flagship technology product is the Smart Insect Farm, an automated and data-driven insect farming module with industry-leading productivity, traceability and cost-efficiency, designed for decentralised deployment as an infrastructure-grade solution for renewable nutrition.
Protenga’s core insect products are Hermet Protein, Hermet Oil and Hermet Frass. Hermet Protein is an insect-based protein meal produced from the larvae of the Black Soldier Fly that is used in aquaculture and pet food applications. Hermet Oil is an insect oil that is used in both industrial and animal feed applications. Hermet Frass is an organic fertilizer and soil amendment produced from the frass and castings of the black soldier fly larvae.
Protenga has commercialised its core products since 2021, has obtained full product licensing under the relevant government agencies, developed market access for key export markets, validated market demand and customer use cases and has deep product and application know-how establishing its recognition as a reputable supplier of high-quality and sustainable insect-based products.
In addition, Protenga is developing innovative specialty products for pet food and aquafeed applications together with some of the most-forward thinking companies in the industry.
Protenga has been backed since 2020 by notable global investors, including The Yield Lab APAC (SG), Seeds Capital (SG), Roslin Technologies (UK), KJS Group (MY), and Stoic Capital (SG).
We are also a well-recognised contributor to the global insect farming industry with regular conference contributions, publications as well as a series of media coverages (see more on our website). We are a founding member of AFFIA, the Asian Food and Feed Insect Association, and have served on the AFFIA Execom for 2 years. Protenga is also on the organising committee of the Asian Insect Industry and Research Forum 2023 in Bangkok, and the Insects to Feed the World 2024 conference that will be held in Singapore.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Protenga is developing a range of natural palatability enhancers targeting primarily pet food and also aquafeed applications under the product name Cens+ Aqua.
Cens+ Aqua is a product candidate in our active product R&D pipeline that is produced from the larvae of the black soldier fly, which is produced using Protenga’s Smart Insect Farm technology and then processed using a series of mechanical, enzymatic, mixing and thermal steps to create a natural and 100% marine-ingredient free palatability enhancing product. We have developed product variants for cat and dog food that are being tested by some of the most well-known global pet food companies. While the palatability and sensory pathways for each animal species are different, we have found that we can adapt the production and processing platform for the insect raw material, which we have developed, to create palatability enhancing effects for different species, including in aquafeed applications.
Based on our Smart Insect Farming technology, we have a production infrastructure that enables scaleable and cost-efficient production of our main raw material for Cens+. Cens+ itself is still in R&D stage and not yet commercialised or commercialisation-ready. Our current development timeline for commercialisation readiness is 12-16 months, which would coincide very well with the F3 krill challenge timeline.
With our mission focused on improving our food system, creating circularity and reducing the need for extractive resources, we would be more than thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with the F3 team on the F3 krill challenge and the trial and validation of our Cens+ Aqua product candidate vs the krill meal.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2016
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
16
In what country is your company headquartered?
Singapore
What types of products does your company currently produce?
We produce Hermet Protein (insect protein meal), Hermet Oil (insect oil) and Hermet Frass (insect frass), a range of formulated pet food products (dry and wet pet foods) as well as specialty ingredients, such as the Cens+ Aqua palatant and Cens+ pet food palatant.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
We are Singapore founded and head-quartered. Our operations and manufacturing is in Malaysia. We distribute globally with market access to many SE Asian countries, Japan, Korea, NZ, AU, Chile, the US and Europe (for pet food only so far).
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$100,000.00
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Protenga develops data-driven Insect-Technology for sustainable feed.
Vision: A world without food waste – To establish insects as the enabler for a healthy, circular & regenerative food system.
Mission: Making Insects Work For You – To be the leading solution provider for insect bioconversion of unused food resources across the food chain. To develop the most value-added products and services using our insect technology platform.
Protenga develops data-driven insect technology. Our mission is better feed for our food. We realize this through our data-driven insect farming technology that produces sustainable protein and ingredients in balance with nature. Protenga produces high-quality, protein-rich and safe aquafeed ingredients, animal nutrition, pet food and organic fertilizer by using a novel, scalable insect-based bioconversion process to recapture nutrients from organic side-streams. Our responsible and innovative approach focuses on driving necessary change in the global food supply chain.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
The F3 Krill Challenge fits perfectly with our founding mission to drive necessary change in the global food supply chain and Making Insects work for a better and more sustainable food system.
Beyond our ‘base products’ (such as insect protein meal as a fishmeal replacement) that we have commercialised with key partners in aquaculture for the last 2 years, we have worked on developing sustainable insect-based palatants for pet food as well as by extension for aquaculture for a while. The opportunity to participate in the F3 challenge and proof & validate our product proposition against krill meal as a wild-caught and unsustainable source of palatability & nutrition that destroys natural ecosystems and food chains is an amazing opportunity for us.
Media Contact Name
Heikki Keskitalo, Business Development Manager
Email
heikki.keskitalo@eniferbio.fi
Please provide a short description of your company.
Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Espoo, Finland, eniferBio was born from the dream of five fungi-mad scientists, who saw a unique opportunity in turning a long-forgotten innovation into the future source of sustainable feed protein for aquaculture.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
We make sustainable Pekilo mycoprotein for aquafeed. Crude protein is 60-65 %, 15 % fungal betaglucan, 10 % Nucleotides, 4 – 6 % of fat . The balance of nucleotides is better than in regular yeast or in fishmeal, ~ 64 % of purines and ~ 36 % of pyrimidines. Carbon footprint of the product is 1.66 kg CO2e/kg. I think that Pekilo mycoprotein will work nicely as a krill replacement.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2020
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
12
In what country is your company headquartered?
Finland
What types of products does your company currently produce?
We currently don’t have commercial production. Our first commercial production plant is up and running in 2026. In the meantime we can produce 100s kilos or several tonnes of the product in pilot production trials.
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Samples are available all over the world. The first commercial production plant (10 kT) will be up and running in 2026 (pre-engineering phase currently). The plant will be built in France.
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
The Carbon footprint of the product is very low, ~1.66 kg CO2e/kg. The raw materials used for the production are sidestreams from different industries (bioethanol production, pulp production, etc..) therefore our process enhances circular economy. We aim to replace finite overused natural resources like Krill meal with our sustainable mycoprotein.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
This challenge gives us the chance to evaluate our product as a substitute for krill meal, increasing the likelihood that our sustainable product can replace more finite, overused resources.
Media Contact Name
Yuehua Wu
Email
1138491479@qq.com
Phone Number
+86-18933810466
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
Media Contact Name
Trinadh Immanni, Director
Email
Trinadh.immanni@revolgene.com
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
Yes
What year was your company founded?
2020
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
15
In what country is your company headquartered?
India
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Probiotics, growth promoters, whitegut medicine, minerals
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
India
What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$50,000.00
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
We have done some experiments for replacing krill meal
Media Contact Name
Haifa Achek, Quality Assurance Manager
Email
achekhaifa@gmail.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Aquafeed industry
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Feed
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
Yes
What year was your company founded?
2013
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
80
In what country is your company headquartered?
Tunisia
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Feed fish
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Tunisia
Media Contact Name
Fanny Le-Blanchard, Marketing and Communication Lead
Email
fanny.le@entobel.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Entobel is a Singapore-headquartered biotech company established in 2013 with its operations implemented in Vietnam since 2015. With over 10 years of hands-on experience, we are the industry leader in producing and processing the Black Soldier Fly – Hermetia illucens, an insect species well-known for its bioconversion capacity and potential as a nutritious resource for animal feed and health in aquaculture and pet food. We produce functional insect-based ingredients (meal and oil) for animal feed and health aiming at a more sustainable global food system.
Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
We produce defatted meal from the dried black soldier fly larvae. Based on prior trials in shrimp and fish, we have seen that our BSF meal can successfully replace krill meal as an attractant in shrimp and fish feeds without impairment of the overall performance.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
2013
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
145
In what country is your company headquartered?
Singapore
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Whole dried larvae from the black soldier fly (BSF), Defatted BSF meal, Lauric-acid rich BSF oil, Insect frass for crops/plant health as a soil amendment
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
We do ship our products to different parts of the world, including US and Canada
Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
At Entobel, we recognize that a healthy and thriving ecosystem is fundamental to the sustainability of all civilizations and economies. That’s why we are dedicated to operating in a way that respects the sustainable goals set by the United Nations and actively incorporates them into our daily practices.
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
Entobel was created with the aim to reduce reliance on fishmeal and other marine ingredients in aquaculture feed production. This challenge is exactly doing this, by replacing krill meal with a more sustainable and eco-friendly alternative, we try to play our part in preserving marine life or what is left of it.
Media Contact Name
Paul Cramer, Vice President
Email
paul_cramer@starmilling.com
Please provide a short description of your company.
Family owned and operated full line Pet, Animal and Aquaculture feeds.
Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No
What year was your company founded?
1970
Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
85
In what country is your company headquartered?
United States
What types of products does your company currently produce?
Manufacturer of Full line Pet and Animal including Aquaculture feeds
In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Most Pacific Rim countries, U.S. Territory and Mexico
How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
Manufacturer of sustainable Aquaculture diets