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

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

Our unique and patented solution is based on a three-stepprocess using ‘open culture fermentation’ and downstream processing to create mixed MCFA and their downstream fractionatedpure products. We take organic residues from municipalities, supermarkets and food production industries and convert them intoMCFA.

These MCFA are supplied to industries producing a.o. animal feed, food, herbicides, plasticizers, and detergents.

In return,some of these companies supply industries of which their waste stream will again be used as feedstock in our process, making ittruly circular.Our next target in making the chemical industry more sustainable, is the construction of a full scale plant using our circular technology. The first milestone in achieving this target is the final investment decision (FID).

To reach this milestone we need the are several major steps with significant challenges we need to make: a contract for feedstock and location; validate our product with our potential customers; arrange agreements with these customers; and then 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 making the necessary steps to execute our sustainable plan.