Sustainable protein company Unibio has received the Green 2023 Environment and Climate award with Uniprotein®, a single-cell protein that has much less environmental impact than soybeans.
Unibio, the leading sustainable protein company, has won the ‘Kalundborg Business Council’s “Green 2023 Environment and Climate award’. The award was given to Unibio because of the significant positive impact the company’s product will have on world food production while substantially reducing global water consumption compared to the cultivation of soybeans.
Unibio has developed a fermentation technology – the U-Loop® fermenter – to produce single-cell protein with methane as feedstock. The protein – Uniprotein® – is a high-quality protein comparable to fishmeal and soy. The U-Loop® replicates a process happening every day in nature and the production of Uniprotein® requires no arable land, has a very low water usage, and has no negative impact on the Earth’s ecosystem. The protein is currently approved as feed in the EU and is under development for human consumption.
CEO of Unibio David Henstrom commented: “On behalf of the entire Unibio team I would like to thank the Kalundborg Business Council for this award and for recognising the contribution Unibio is making in feeding the world in a more sustainable way. We are very proud of the work that Unibio is doing to enable our customers to secure sustainable protein for the future, and we are delighted that our work has been recognized by the local business community in this way.”
The Green 2023 Environment and Climate Award was awarded by the chairman of Kalundborg Forsyning’s board of directors, Karl-Åge Hornshøj Poulsen at Kalundborg Business Council’s yearly award show. Each year, the award is given to a company located in the Kalundborg Municipality of Denmark that is leading the way in countering climate change and providing green alternative products for the future.
