Imagine taking the leftover grounds from your morning coffee and turning them into luxury skin creams or health supplements. Instead of letting these grounds rot in a landfill and release harmful gases, this process extracts the hidden oils and nutrients. It's like mining gold from trash to replace synthetic chemicals in your beauty products.
The coffee industry generates massive waste that releases methane in landfills. Simultaneously, cosmetic and food manufacturers rely on synthetic, petrochemical-based ingredients that consumers increasingly reject.
A Demo Biorefinery capable of processing 200-250 tons of coffee waste per year to produce coffee oil, melanoidins, and phenols.
If you are a skincare manufacturer dealing with a reliance on synthetic petrochemicals — this project developed a biorefinery that produces high-quality coffee oil and phenols. These serve as sustainable, natural active ingredients for your product lines.
If you are a food producer dealing with the need for clean-label, bioactive additives — this project developed a way to extract melanoidins and lipids from coffee waste. This allows you to create healthy, high-value functional ingredients from upcycled sources.
If you are a waste processor dealing with the methane emissions from 10 billion kilograms of global coffee consumption — this project developed a scalable biorefinery model. It transforms waste into B2B ingredients, turning a disposal cost into a revenue stream.
The project established a Demo Biorefinery with the capacity to process 200 to 250 tons of coffee by-products annually, with plans to expand to 1200 tons.
The company utilizes a proprietary process to extract coffee oil, melanoidins, and lignin/phenols.
Based on available project data, specific pricing or cost-per-unit for the ingredients is not provided.
The project ran from November 2021 to March 2024, focusing on building and optimizing the demo plant.
The ingredients are sold B2B to manufacturers of cosmetics and personal care products as sustainable alternatives to synthetic components.
The project is led by a single SME, Kaffe Bueno APS from Denmark. This 100% industry-led consortium indicates a strong commercial drive and a direct path to market, as the company manages both the technical development and the B2B sales strategy without the overhead of academic partners.
Contact KAFFE BUENO APS in Denmark for B2B ingredient sourcing.
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