The development of a full scale plant for the production of sustainable medium chain fatty acids

Introduction

To meet the value-chain-wide need for a viable circular economic model that facilitates the achievement of the EU’s sustainability goals, ChainCraft has developed an economically viable process that converts organic residues into valuable biobased medium chain fatty acids (MCFA) for the agrifood and material industries.

Unique Solution

Our unique and patented solution is based on a three-step process using ‘open culture fermentation’ and downstream processing to create mixed MCFA and their downstream fractionated pure products.

Feedstock Sources

We take organic residues from municipalities, supermarkets, and food production industries and convert them into MCFA. These MCFA are supplied to industries producing:

• Animal feed
• Food
• Herbicides
• Plasticizers
• Detergents

In return, some of these companies supply industries whose waste stream will again be used as feedstock in our process, making it truly circular.

Future Goals

Our next target in making the chemical industry more sustainable is the construction of a full-scale plant using our circular technology.

Milestones and Challenges

The first milestone in achieving this target is the final investment decision (FID). To reach this milestone, we need to complete several major steps, each with significant challenges:

1. Contract for feedstock and location
2. Validate our product with our potential customers
3. Arrange agreements with these customers
4. Design our plant based on this acquired knowledge

As these steps involve significant risk, the support of EIC is key in achieving our target and will help us make the necessary steps to execute our sustainable plan.