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Plant to be built in collaboration with Midwest Renewable Energy in Sutherland, NE with shipments expected to commence in Q4, 2019.
White Dog Labs Announces First Production Plant for its Aquaculture Feed Ingredient, ProTyton™
(UNITED STATES, 10/16/2018)
White Dog Labs (WDL) has announced that it has signed a collaboration agreement with Midwest Renewable Energy (MRE) and will locate its first ProTyton plant within MRE’s ethanol plant in Sutherland NE.
The ProTyton plant will initially produce 3,000 metric tons/year of ProTyton with shipments expected in Q4 2019. The plant will expand to 30,000 tons/year as early as 2021.
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| ProTyton is a sustainable replacement to fishmeal, and also being considered as an advance nutrition ingredient in terrestrial animal feeds. |
WDL has developed and scaled up ProTyton, a Single Cell Protein ingredient that exhibits upwards of 85wt% crude protein and over 40wt% essential amino acids. The product is highly digestible, performs well in multiple aquaculture diets, and demonstrated health benefits beyond nutrition. Independent testing demonstrated that ProTyton can counter Early Mortality Syndrome in shrimp, and its inclusion in Atlantic salmon feed reduces the overall cost of diets while maintaining performance. ProTyton fermentation is a simple anaerobic process that is highly similar to ethanol fermentation, which allows straightforward implementation by ethanol plants of ProTyton production.
"Having demonstrated ProTyton benefits, we are now responding to customer requests and accelerating our time to market via the collaboration with MRE.” said WDL's CEO, Dr. Bryan Tracy.
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| Dr. Bryan Tracy. |
“This agreement helps us maximize the utilization of our ethanol processing assets and offers us a diversification option,” said Tom Wilson, GM of MRE. “We are excited to work with WDL as we are impressed with the simplicity of the process, the high value of the product in the ever-growing aquaculture industry, and the fact that the process will add more feed co-products to our current offering.”
“We are designing the plant in collaboration with the engineering firms AdvanceBio and FQPT, and working closely with equipment suppliers” explained Tracy, “Our goal is to facilitate easy duplication of ProTyton production at other ethanol plants that might be interested in diversification.”
About White Dog Labs
White Dog Labs, Inc. (WDL) was established in 2012 on the foundation of synthetic biology, bio-process development and product development to address global challenges including food sustainability and climate change. The company has invented a proprietary process, Protocol B™, for the isolation, selection and cultivation of microbiome-derived Clostridia, which has resulted in large, diverse and novel strain libraries. Thanks to ground-breaking studies and emerging applications in microbiome science, this library has promising applications in nutrition and health. Additionally, WDL has advanced synthetic biology tools for Clostridia, thus coupling boundless natural diversity with directed innovation.
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| From its headquarters in New Castle, Delaware, WDL is scaling technologies to ton per day demonstration for sustainable protein, biochemical and fuel production. |
WDL has also invented a novel class of fermentation technology called MixoFerm™ that can improve the efficiency of fermentation processes by 50-100%, which can improve production economics for bio-products, ranging from fuels and chemicals to protein rich feeds.
MixoFerm employs Clostridia microorganisms to simultaneously convert carbohydrates (e.g., sugar) and gas (e.g., CO2, hydrogen and CO) into many desirable biochemical and protein rich animal feeds. What’s more, with the right combination of sugar and gas, The CO2 emissions from the fermentation can be substantially reduced, which improves the environmental footprint.
WDL customers and partners will benefit in these ways: 1) differentiated products, particularly in applications of advanced nutrition, enabled by its proprietary library of Clostridia microbiota, 2) lower feedstock cost, which is commonly the largest operating cost consideration whether it is protein, fuel or chemical production; 3) improved life-cycle- analysis by maximizing the mass conversion of biobased feedstocks; and 4) easier compliance with current and future regulations on carbon intensity of products.
Source: White Dog Labs
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