Feed & Additive Magazine Issue 2 March 2021

SPECIAL STORY 66 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE March 2021 In total, the industrial symbiosis model developed by InnovaFeed allows the insect producer to reduce its carbon footprint by 80% compared to a standard model with no symbiotic relations. Demonstrated benefits that eventually end up in consumers’ daily life in the form of more sustainable food products. Even petfood has its role to play to preserve our planet: using insect proteins and oil to feed all 66M European domestic dogs, could save a dozen millions of tons of CO2 each year, the equiva- lent of more than 10 million Paris-New York flights. A significant impact that individuals can achieve simply through their consumption choices. Yet InnovaFeed’s LCA also demonstrates that not all production models are the same when it comes to sustainability. By allowing energy, infrastructures, and side-stream upcycling from existing local play- ers, the symbiosis is the major lever for unlocking competitive advantage and environmental positive impact. This model, which particularly applies to insects as their natural role is to recycle low-grade agricultural residue into high-value nutrients, could also be applied beyond to other industries. INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS MODEL: TURNING SUSTAINABILITY INTO COMPETITIVITY Beyond the sustainability benefits described above, this production model helps strengthen the economic competitiveness of all players involved, by increasing the valorization of side-streams for exist- ing players and saving costs. These savings can then be shared between all collocated players in a win- win dynamic. In the case of InnovaFeed, the direct use of agricul- tural by-products, existing infrastructures and waste energy significantly strengthens the competitiveness of insect production as well as the competitiveness of the incumbent industrial ecosystem in which it is embed- ded. Concretely, not drying agricultural by-products represents several million euros of gas saved each year. Similarly, capturing waste energy from nearby biomass turbine - by improving its thermodynamic cycle - in- creases the production capacity of the energy player by up to 30%, representing a valorization of 87 GWh per year that powers InnovaFeed’s plant. This local implan- tation thus allows existing players to strengthen their economic competitiveness, whilst providing new en- trant InnovaFeed with necessary by-product and energy. In conclusion, the insect industry has the ability to design new solutions to solve the challenge of sustainability with limited constraints compared to other industries, due to its recent emergence. Insect players like InnovaFeed thus have a role to play in defining innovative industrial models combining sustainability and competitiveness. These very mod- els can then be applied to other sectors. This is a pioneering role that InnovaFeed embraced fully, by publishing the first large-scale LCA results for the insect sector, thus contributing to the scientific re- search and building of a both more sustainable and performant food system. About Chloé Phan Van Phi Chloé Phan Van Phi is the Head of Sales and Marketing at InnovaFeed. Prior to InnovaFeed, Chloé worked as a project leader at Oliver Wyman and at the International Finance Corporation where she worked on infrastructure projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. Chloé holds a Master of International Affairs from Johns Hopkins SAIS in the US and a Master of Science from the Ecole Polytech- nique in France.