Feed & Additive Magazine Issue 2 March 2021

SPECIAL STORY FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE March 2021 65 However, to provide the most accurate environ- mental impact analysis, it is also at industrial-scale that the sustainability of producing insect nutrients has to be determined and compared to that of other more traditional feed ingredients. This LCA performed by Quantis demonstrates that insect nutrients produced on InnovaFeed’s in- dustrial-scale plant have a carbon footprint at least 50% lower than alternatives: - InnovaFeed’s insect protein have a climate change impact up to 75% lower than Norwegian fishmeal: every year up to 25 million tons of CO 2 will be saved with the production from this first industrial-scale plant of InnovaFeed - InnovaFeed’s insect oil has a climate change im- pact up to 95% lower than vegetable oils such as soy oil; or up to 20 million tons of CO2 that will be saved every year A GAME-CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STEMMING FROM A PIONEERING SYMBIOSIS MODEL Leveraging its pilot-scale facility over the last four years, InnovaFeed developed a pioneering produc- tion model called “industrial symbiosis”. By “industrial symbiosis”, InnovaFeed defines a model in which a novel industrial player designs its production and activity as embedded within an existing industrial ecosystem in order to make the most of existing infrastructures and byproduct and/ or waste streams from neighboring players, and in re- turn creating value. By allowing the upcycling of res- idue from one player’s activity by another co-located player, this symbiosis production model unlocks raw material and energy savings, thus diminishing the environmental footprint of the entire ecosystem. In the case of InnovaFeed’s production, this indus- trial symbiosis model takes the form of a co-localiza- tion of InnovaFeed’s facilities with industrial players able to provide it with agricultural by-products to feed its larvae, waste energy to power the plants and existing infrastructure. InnovaFeed’s industrial-scale insect production unit is co-located with: - starch manufacturer Tereos to upcycle its wheat by-products wet as feed for the insects, - and energy player Kogeban to capture and val- orize the latter waste energy – i.e. energy that was previously dissipated in the atmosphere. The industrial symbiosis model established by Innova- Feed directly translates into sustainability benefits, as measured in the LCA conducted by independent expert Quantis. Using Tereos wet-byproducts – that do not re- quire drying nor transportation, the two sites being di- rectly connected through a pipeline – allows the saving of 21,000 tons of CO2 each year. Optimizing Kogeban’s thermodynamical cycle thereby capturing its “waste energy” enables InnovaFeed to meet 60% of its energy needs and save up to 32,000 tons of CO2 each year.