Press release: Unibio wins ‘Green 2023 Environment and Climate Award
Unibio, the leading sustainable protein company has won the ‘Kalundborg Business Council’s “Green 2023 Environment and Climate award’.
The award was given to Unibio because of the significant positive impact the Company’s product will have on world food production while substantially reducing global water consumption compared to the cultivation of soybeans.
Unibio has developed a fermentation technology – the U-Loop® fermenter – to produce single-cell protein with methane as feedstock. The protein – Uniprotein® – is a high-quality protein comparable to fishmeal and soy. The U-Loop® replicates a process happening every day in nature and the production of Uniprotein® requires no arable land, has a very low water usage, and has no negative impact on the Earth’s ecosystem. The protein is currently approved as feed in the EU and is under development for human consumption.
CEO of Unibio David Henstrom commented: “On behalf of the entire Unibio team I would like to thank the Kalundborg Business Council for this award and for recognising the contribution Unibio is making in feeding the world in a more sustainable way. We are very proud of the work that Unibio is doing to enable our customers to secure sustainable protein for the future, and we are delighted that our work has been recognized by the local business community in this way.”
The Green 2023 Environment and Climate Award was awarded by the chairman of Kalundborg Forsyning’s board of directors, Karl-Åge Hornshøj Poulsen at Kalundborg Business Council’s yearly award show. Each year, the award is given to a company located in the Kalundborg Municipality of Denmark that is leading the way in countering climate change and providing green alternative products for the future.
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Photo courtesy of TV-Kalundborg.
For more information, please visit https://www.unibio.dk/ or contact:
| Unibio A/S
Trine Leth, Head of Communications / Kommunikationsdirektør |
+45 23 23 19 65 tl@unibiogroup.com |
| St Brides Partners Limited
Ana Ribeiro / Paul Dulieu |
+44 (0) 7980 321 505 |
About Unibio
Unibio is a leading sustainable protein company, that has developed a fermentation technology – the U-Loop® – to produce Uniprotein®, a high-quality protein. The technology which has been scaled up to an industrial scale and is being rolled out globally, uses methane, such as natural gas and biogas as feedstock. It is Unibio’s mission to become the food of the future through the provision of secure and sustainable protein for farming and fishing feed.
Unibio’s technology is highly resource efficient and sustainable. The process replicates the same process that happens every day in nature. Unibio’s headquarters are in Roskilde near Copenhagen in Denmark, where it also has its Research & Development Centre. Unibio’s Innovation Centre, with a pilot and demo plant, is located in Kalundborg west of Copenhagen.
About U-Loop® technology
Unibio’s patented U-Loop® technology uses a continuous-flow fermentation process to mimic a process that occurs in nature every day and uses gases, including methane to produce Uniprotein®. Through its proprietary process, microbes grow with methane as feedstock, and they are turned into single-cell protein – Uniprotein® that is subsequently treated and purified to a nutritious, high-quality feed grade. Unibio owns the intellectual property rights to the U-Loop® technology.
About Uniprotein®
Uniprotein® is a high-quality and sustainable protein on par with other high-quality proteins such as fishmeal and soy protein. The amino acid profile for Uniprotein® is very close to fishmeal. Uniprotein® has been approved for feed for terrestrial and aquatic animals in the EU and registrations globally are in progress. Uniprotein® has a high uniform quality, is free from pesticides, is fully traceable, and is non-GMO. The product has been introduced commercially drawing significant interest from customers from all over the world. The product is in development for direct human consumption.
Uniprotein® – a superior protein product known for:
- single cell protein approved for animal and fish feed in the EU
- a high protein content – above 70% in dry matter
- sustainable (alternative) protein
- usable as a direct supplement in animal feed compounds
- a highly digestible feed
- in industrial-scale production
- amino acid composition similar to fishmeal or soybean meal
- non-GMO
- deforestation-free and land conversion-free source of protein
- free from contaminants like pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and antibiotics
- easily traceable
- uniform product quality
- a long shelf life
- comes as powder or pellets
Uniprotein® will be sold through a network of distributors, as well as directly to large key accounts around the world.
