Profile
Ebbe Busch Larsen, Chief Executive Officer, 62 years old
Ebbe Busch Larsen has established UniBio A/S with the following objectives:
- To offer an alternative to other protein concentrates as well as a favourable return.
- To complete the started approval procedure with respect to new food applications.
- To supply an environmentally correct product which also offers a favourable return to investors.
- To produce and market a protein concentrate under the UniProtein brand.
- To produce the product by a natural process.
- To establish production facilities in countries where the supply of natural gas (methanol) is abundant.
- To continue the contractual cooperation with Rambøl A/S and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and to extend the project to include other relevant cooperators such as the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, in order to develop other product applications.
- To ensure a continuous scientifical and technical development of the organisation.
- To continue to be a leading firm within fermentation.
- To licence the technology.
- To sell fermentation technology.
- To license the use of the company’s patented process control and optimisations.
- Together with E-Teck, NEC, the UTT and the government of Trinidad and Tobago to produce and market UniProtein in order to make it an important player on the world protein market.
- To further develop processes, technology and the product.
Key cooperators
Since 1986 Ebbe Busch Larsen has cooperated with DTU and the Center for Microbial Biotechnology. This cooperation continued in UniBioTech Science and UniBio A/S. The cooperation was formalised by means of a legally binding agreement with the Institute for Product Development (DTU).
Rambøll A/S, the largest and leading engineering company in Denmark and its process technology division, is an important cooperation partner in connection with the construction of the plant, process optimisation and Rambøll's international presence with offices worldwide.
Since the late 1980s the development of the technology has accelerated drastically. Among other things this resulted in a project at DTU's Center for Microbial Biotechnology. In cooperation with the university, the Danish Energy Agency under the Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs and UniBioTech Science ApS new technologies and systems were developed and tested.
As a result of this development UniBio A/S has obtained the right to use process patent No. PA199900690, which is registered in Europe and in a number of other countries. The patent is approved in the US, Mexico, Canada and Europe.
Environmental issues
Product units can be established in all areas including environmentally sensitive ones, as there is no emission of polluting fluids or gases, but only clean, cool water and vapours. A productivity increase of approx. 30% has been achieved on the pilot plant at DTU over the past four years, and an additional 25% can be expected within a relatively short period of time without applying genetic engineering on the organism.