Commissioning and start-up activities have commenced at the world’s first industrial-scale FeedKind® facility in Chongqin, China, to produce a new sustainable functional protein that does not use animal or plant ingredients in its production. The company called Calysseo is a joint venture between worldwide animal nutrition leader Adisseo, a subsidiary of Sinochem Holdings and protein innovator Calysta. The facility will produce 20,000 tonnes of FeedKind® Aqua protein annually and initially, the entire production will be available for exclusive use in China as planned.

The microbial protein is a newly available sustainable, nutritious and non-GMO protein and it is produced via a natural fermentation that does not use arable land, animal or plant ingredients, and uses very little water in its production.

If used instead of conventional sources of protein, 100,000 tonnes of FeedKind® could mean that between approx. 420,000 – 450,000 tonnes of wild caught fish could be saved. Used instead of vegetable proteins, the same quantity of FeedKind® could free up as much as 535 km2 of land and would save 9 billion litres of water.