Media Contact Name
Paul Cramer, Vice President

Email
paul_cramer@starmilling.com

Please provide a short description of your company.
Family owned and operated full line Pet, Animal and Aquaculture feeds.

Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No

What year was your company founded?
1970

Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
85

In what country is your company headquartered?
United States

What types of products does your company currently produce?
Manufacturer of Full line Pet and Animal including Aquaculture feeds

In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Most Pacific Rim countries, U.S. Territory and Mexico

How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
Manufacturer of sustainable Aquaculture diets

Media Contact Name
Ms. Livia Linh, Marketing Team Leader

Email
Livia.Linh@deheus.com

Please provide a short description of your company.
Royal De Heus is one of the global leaders in the animal nutrition and husbandry industry. Since its entry into Vietnam in 2009, De Heus has been driving dynamic growth to become one of the largest and well-established animal feed producers in the country. De Heus’ value proposition is in providing high quality animal feed products and customer-centric services such as farm management, animal health, biosecurity, antibiotic reduction, and farm design consultancy. With the company’s strategic investments in genetics and active role in value chain cooperation, De Heus contributes significantly to professionalising the independent livestock and aquaculture farming sector in Vietnam.

Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
The product we are developing for the F3 Challenge replaces fish meal as the main protein source of the fish diet by Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia Illucens) BSF meal. BSF is a 100% circular product, obtained from the upcycling of organic waste and rich in high quality protein as well as other nutrients. Our insect meal has a negative carbon footprint of -20 kg of CO2eq per kg of meal. This comes from the avoided methane emissions of organic waste. We certify that 100% of our raw material (organic waste) comes from avoided to landfill material. Therefore we are not replacing animal feed for insect feed. We offer our clients carbon negative footprint for their end product and fish feed. We are developing climate positive fish free feed with small to medium feed producers as we aim to democratize feed production and ultimately fish production. The benefits for the ecosystems by including insect meal are huge, for instance on a standard diet for Atlantic salmon, replacing half of the fish meal used by insect meal, results on a 27% reduction of the marine resources dependency*

*Prepared from the data of the Technical Report Comparison of potential environmental impacts through the life cycle approach associated with the production of three types of meal: Black Soldier Fly insect meal, fish meal and soybean meal (Regenerativa, 2020 )

Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
Yes

Are you looking for product development partners, sales partners, or both?
Product Development Partners

What year was your company founded?
1911 in Netherlands, and arrived in Vietnam in 2009

Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
>6000 worldwide

In what country is your company headquartered?
Netherlands

What types of products does your company currently produce?
In Vietnam we produce aqua feeds for a wide range of species both :
– in freshwater: Pangasius, Tilapia, Frogs, Snakehead, Carps, Clarias, Sturgeon, Trout, ..
– in brackish or saltwater: Seabass, shrimps, pompano, grouper, cobia

In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
We have Aqua factories in Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Egypt, Ghana,
From Vietnam we do export to Asian countries: Cambodia, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia
We also export to several countries in Africa and Middle-East.

Media Contact Name
Cristián Emhart, Trade Manager

Email
cristian@f4f.cl

Please provide a short description of your company.
F4F, is a Chilean scientific-based startup, dedicated to transform organic waste into high value, sustainable and nutritious feed ingredients. Inspired by nature, and with our proprietary technology we reproduce, grow and process insects, by using organic waste as feedstock, and transforming their biomass into sustainable and nutritious protein, lipids and other functional ingredients for fish feed and other animals. F4F offers feed and animal ingredients producers, to remove pressure on wild fisheries systems, by replacing conventional ingredients such as fishmeal and soy, with insect based protein, lipids and other functional products. Our business model aims to democratize the fabrication of sustainable and climate positive aquaculture feed, by working with small to medium feed manufacturers, and commercialize together climate positive, fish free and circular aquafeed. Our insect feed has a verified negative carbon footprint of -20 ton of CO2eq per ton of insect meal. This translates to the end product and therefore fish farmers can commercialize their products as climate positive as well. This work has been developed with consultancy and third party verified.

Our products offer our customers sustainable ingredients at a much lower environmental cost, plus offering feeding properties (high value protein and lipids) with additional benefits such as antimicrobial properties good for the immune system. Our high value protein and lipids, offer antimicrobial properties thanks to the high content of lauric acid and the presence of specialized antimicrobial peptides.
Insects deliver several ecosystem services like transforming organic waste into nutritious and sustainable food for fish. So what we are doing is to mimick the power of nature using the most efficient type of insect, carefully selected, and developing the technology to transform enormous amounts of organic waste, into high value ingredients for fish, in addition to the organic fertilizer it generates. This way we can recover up to 80% of the nutrients contained in organic waste. By using a proprietary technology, we create the optimal conditions, for this specie of insect, to reproduce and grow, at an industrial scale. Our business can make a difference to relieve pressure on the marine resources, and on natural resources associated to food systems in general, by providing a low environmental footprint, sourced of functional food, upcycled from food waste. Thanks to the antimicrobial properties of our feed ingredients, our customers could also rely less on antibiotics to treat fish diseases.

Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
The product we are developing for the F3 Challenge replaces fish meal as the main protein source of the fish diet by Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia Illucens) BSF meal. BSF is a 100% circular product, obtained from the upcycling of organic waste and rich in high quality protein as well as other nutrients. Our insect meal has a negative carbon footprint of -20 kg of CO2eq per kg of meal. This comes from the avoided methane emissions of organic waste. We certify that 100% of our raw material (organic waste) comes from avoided to landfill material. Therefore we are not replacing animal feed for insect feed. We offer our clients carbon negative footprint for their end product and fish feed. We are developing climate positive fish free feed with small to medium feed producers as we aim to democratize feed production and ultimately fish production. The benefits for the ecosystems by including insect meal are huge, for instance on a standard diet for Atlantic salmon, replacing half of the fish meal used by insect meal, results on a 27% reduction of the marine resources dependency*

*Prepared from the data of the Technical Report Comparison of potential environmental impacts through the life cycle approach associated with the production of three types of meal: Black Soldier Fly insect meal, fish meal and soybean meal (Regenerativa, 2020 )

Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No

What year was your company founded?
2015

Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
22

In what country is your company headquartered?
Chile

What types of products does your company currently produce?
Black soldier fly dried larvae
Black soldier fly larvae meal
Climate positive , fish free aquafeed
Climate positive Insect fed Trout
Climate positive regenerative eggs
Black soldier fly larvae oil
Black soldier fly larvae frass

In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Chile

What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$100,000.00

Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Our company’s mission is to ensure the food of the future, regenerating our ecosystems.

How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
The product we are proposing for the F3 Challenge, is a contribution for a sustainable change in the current food system, through a circular economy concept, reducing the dependancy of marine resources and enabling the expected growth of the aquaculture industry. Our business model aims to democratize fish feed production with small to medium feed producers and ultimately to democratize regenerative fish production.

Media Contact Name
Boyd Way, Trade Manager

Email
boyd_way@dainichi-ff.co.jp

Please provide a short description of your company.
Dainichi Corporation is a vertically integrated aquaculture manufacturer. We produce and market formula feed to the Japanese aquaculture industry – primarily Yellowtail (Hamachi) and Sea. Bream (Madai). We farm Bluefin Tuna (Kuro maguro) and Masu Salmon (Satsuki Masu). Dainichi harvests, processes, and wholesales farmed fresh and frozen seafood throughout Japan and overseas.

Dainichi’s sister company farms the only ASC certified Red Sea Bream (Madai) in Japan.

Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
We are searching for partners to develop a feed to be used for Red Sea Bream for the Carnivore Challenge.

Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
Yes

Are you looking for product development partners, sales partners, or both?
Product Development Partners

In what country is your company headquartered?
Japan

What types of products does your company currently produce?
Dainichi Corporation currently manufactures moist pellets and extruded pellets. The EP is toll milled. The raw materials that we are currently using are from recycled products (salmon oil, tuna meal, and shrimp meal). We are wanting to find ways to expand our sustainable feed product line.

In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Dainichi Corporation distributes feed only in Japan. We distribute seafood throughout Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, and the United States.

What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$200 million

How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
We are striving to incorporate the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals as much as possible in the way that we conduct business and manufacture feed to the way in which we process and market seafood.

Media Contact Name
Melissa Matczak, Sr Manager, Corporate Communications

Email
MMatczak@scoular.com

Please provide a short description of your company.
A 128+-year old company with more than 4 billion in sales, Scoular provides diverse supply chain solutions for end-users and suppliers of grain, feed ingredients, and food ingredients.
From offices and facilities in North America, South America, and Asia, our employees are engaged in the business of buying, selling, storing, handling, and processing grain and ingredients as well as managing transportation and logistics worldwide.

Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Barley Protein Concentrate (i.e. BPC) is the result of a unique enzymatic hydrolysis to obtain a high-quality, highly digestible nutrient dense protein source. The patented process for obtaining Barley Protein Concentrates is designed to protect the protein from heat damage as well as remove fiber and allow the naturally occurring phosphorus to be highly bio-available for nutrient uptake. The ideal levels of protein and low ash make this a complimentary supplement to fish meal in aquaculture and pet food diets.

➢ BPC based feeds are palatable, with equivalent or better growth than fishmeal based diets.
➢ Barley protein is highly digestible. USDA studies in trout and salmon show the protein availability is up to 96%, higher than other plant
proteins and equivalent to or greater than fishmeal.
➢ BPC does not contain anti-nutritional compounds, unlike soy and some other plant proteins
➢ The phosphorus in BPC is highly digestible, reducing the principal pollutant from farmed fish operations
➢ BPC improves waste management, especially in Recirculating Aquaculture Systems
➢ BPC does not change fish meat color or taste
➢ BPC is stable in storage and transport
➢ BPC performs well in manufacture of finished pelleted feeds
➢ BPC supports aquaculture sustainability ratings and best aquaculture practices: Barley is not genetically modified, does not compete
with human food (Scoular uses feed barley now fed primarily to livestock), and is a sustainable, low input crop grown in dry land, cold
climates and requires less fertilizer, few pesticides, and less water than other grains.

Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
Yes

Are you looking for product development partners, sales partners, or both?
Both

What year was your company founded?
1892

Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
+1000

In what country is your company headquartered?
USA

What types of products does your company currently produce?
Along with Scoular’s production of Barley Protein Concentrate and engagement in the business of buying, selling, storing, handling, and processing grain and ingredients as well as managing transportation and logistics worldwide, Scoular subsidiary, Petsource develops, procures, freeze-dries and packages high-protein ingredients for pet food manufacturers.

In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
World-wide/Globally

What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD? 
$5 billion

Media Contact Name
Øyvind Ihle, Global Marketing & Communications Director

Email
oyvind.Ihle@veramaris.com

Please provide a short description of your company.
Empagran is an integrated aquaculture company with 3000 ha of shrimp ponds in Ecuador, a packing plant, hatchery and feed mill. Empagran mainly grows white shrimp Litopenaues vannamei. The main share holder also owns a large percentage of shares of Oceanos shrimp farm (1100 ha) in Cartagena Colombia.

Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Empagran has developed a formula “veggie” a vegetarian recipe to feed to shrimp. This feed has being formulated without any fish meal or fish oil. The fish meal has being completed replaced by soybean meal and the fish oil has been replaced by Veramaris algal oil rich in both EPA & DHA omega 3 fatty acids. Our intention is to grow sustainable shrimp and in the very near future to be independent of both fish meal and fish oil as source of protein and EPA and DHA omega 3.

Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No

Please provide a brief description of your current partners.
Veramaris expands the world’s access to sustainable Omega-3 with its natural algal oil rich in both EPA & DHA omega-3 fatty acids. It enables customers and stakeholders in aquaculture to become less dependent on finite and variable sources of fish oil obtained from wild catch fisheries. Veramaris’ ambition is to make an impactful contribution to UN’s Sustainable Development Goal # 14, “Life Under Water”, with our mission Healthy Fish, Healthy Food, Healthy Oceans. Veramaris sells its natural algal oil products globally into the aquaculture sector across USA, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

What year was your company founded?
1972

Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
Empagran: 1506, ABA feed mill: 155

In what country is your company headquartered?
Ecuador

What types of products does your company currently produce?
Our farms mainly grow shrimp, of different sizes for different markets, our feed mill (ABA) manufactures the feed. 90% of feed is for shrimp the remainder for Tilapia and companion animals.

In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama

What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD?
$170 million

Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Our intention is to grow sustainable shrimp and in the very near future to be independent of both fish meal and fish oil as source of protein and EPA and DHA omega 3.

How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
Our intention is to grow sustainable shrimp and in the very near future to be independent of both fish meal and fish oil as source of protein, EPA and DHA omega 3 fatty acids for today and for future generations.

Media Contact Name
Ramachandran Parapillil Unnikrishnan, Lead Partner

Email
ask@bgreen.co.in

Please provide a short description of your company.
BGreen Technologies is a young startup based out of India, Our objective is to make Feed / Medicines / Pro-Bio/biotechnology products cost-effective in development & manufacturing, truly compliant with international standards in products and in the facility.

Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Cost-effective Agro & probiotic supplement substitution for crude fish protein /meal and fish oil

Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
No

What year was your company founded?
2017

Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
5

In what country is your company headquartered?
India

What types of products does your company currently produce?
Value Added Services & Process development

In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Hong Kong

Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
The Earth & Food is for all

How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
Cost-Effectiveness in finding alternate technology and products

Media Contact Name
Sheila White, Media Coordinator

Email 
swhite@remediiate.com

Please provide a short description of your company. 
We grow microalgae at scale

Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
We are experts in growing microalgae. We are not experts in the formulation of feed

Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge? 
Yes

Are you looking for product development partners, sales partners, or both?
Product Development Partners

What year was your company founded? 
2017

Approximately how many people are employed by your company? 
10

In what country is your company headquartered? 
UK

What types of products does your company currently produce?
Multiple species of micoalgae

In what countries does your company currently distribute its products? 
UK

Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Clean the Planet | Feed the World

How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals? 
Provision of fish feed without harming the eco system

Media Contact Name
Zhijun Hu, CEO

Email
melbgeog@gmail.com

Please provide a short description of your company.
Jiangsu Fuhai Biotech Co.,Ltd. were founded in Haian, Jiangsu, China in 2015, close to Nantong and Shanghai Port. The company were awarded as a “Leading Agricultural Enterprise in Haian” in 2019.

Innovation is our soul. We have a team specialized in fermentation, food industry, machinery, and animal nutrition. We applied six related invention patents to 2019. Also we have a long-term cooperation with some domestic and international research institutions or universities. Our laboratory has some equipment for research and analysis, such as Automatic Nitrogen Determination Apparatus, Electric Drum Wind Drying Oven, Vertical Pressure Steam Tank, Biochemical Incubator, Double Vertical Electrophoresis Apparatus, Microscope, etc.

We have assembled a production line with three liquid fermentation tanks. Potentially we can supply about 500,000 tones enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation plant protein annually in the future. Our production and quality control system are according to ISO9001:2015 and other standards for feed quality and safety management.

We are committed to provide high quality protein and lipid for aquaculture and young live stocks, to add value to the industry.

Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
We use dehulled full fat soybean as raw material. All the material will be fermented in tanks by microbes and enzymes. The temperature and PH are under control so the quality is stable.

Glycinin, Beta-Conglycinin, Stachyose, Raffinose, Phytic acid are almost degraded entirely, which are harmful to gut health and microbial balance. We get rid of nearly all of the anti-nutrition factors as possible.

Most of the protein are degraded to peptide which is very easy to digest, and maybe helpful to improve immunity. The lipids are emulsified which is very good for digesting.

Protein and lipid are two key nutrition elements for aquaculture. So our product can be an ideal ingredient for aquaculture, and young live stocks. Soybean is a big crop so our production is sustainable and can expand easily to meet the needs of the industry.

Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
Yes

Are you looking for product development partners, sales partners, or both? 
Both

What year was your company founded? 
2015

Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
40

In what country is your company headquartered?
China

What types of products does your company currently produce?
Fermented and enzymolysis full fat soybean, high content of peptide and emulsified lipid, without anti-nutritional factors.

In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
Now China. We are registering in some countries and communicating with some distributors internationally. We are happy to work with more distribution or sales partners worldwide. We should be able to distribute overseas from 2020.

What is the approximate annual revenue of your company in USD? 
$6 million

Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Plant feed can save animals and fish.

How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals? 
The Challenge suits us perfectly.

Media Contact Name
Patrick Crowley, CEO

Email
pat@chapul.com

Please provide a short description of your company.
We farm insects and formulate functional protein food and feed lines of insect-based ingredients.

Please provide any details you would like to share about the product that you are developing for the Challenge.
Our feed is formulated with black soldier fly larvae as the primary protein source.

Are you looking for partners to join your company to compete as a team in the Challenge?
Yes

Are you looking for product development partners, sales partners, or both?
Sales Partners

What year was your company founded?
2012

Approximately how many people are employed by your company?
8

In what country is your company headquartered?
USA

What types of products does your company currently produce?
Protein blends, whole dried larvae, protein isolate, lipid oils.

In what countries does your company currently distribute its products?
USA

Do you have an environmental statement/mission that your company wants to make explicit?
Mission: Add biodiversity back into our agriculture, our soil, and planet earth to create a more sustainable, resilient, and secure food system.

We have been members of 1% For the Planet since 2012.

How does this challenge fit with your company’s mission/goals?
We are scaling our soldier fly larvae farm here in the USA, raising the larvae on agricultural by-products, primarily to feed into salmonid aquaculture. Reducing our dependence on FMFO is a core element of our business model.

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