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GREEN INGREDIENTS

Kaffe Bueno opens coffee biorefinery in Denmark

Danish bioscience company, Kaffe “Every ingredient we develop and
Bueno, has announced the opening of produce at Kaffe Bueno is aimed at
the “world’s first coffee biorefinery” serving as a multi-functional replace-
in Rødovre, Denmark. The company ment for one or more ingredients
established the coffee biorefinery, with within a product. This translates into
support of a €2.5-mn grant from the cleaner high-performing products for
European Innovation Council. Initially, the consumer and measurable reduc-
the facility will have the capacity to tions in scope 3 emissions for manu-
upcycle 500-tpa of coffee grounds. facturers,” said Mr. Alejandro Franco,
co-founder and CCO of Kaffe Bueno.
Kaffe Bueno manufactures active “We can expand the capacity to 1,500
and functional ingredients for personal tons at the Rødovre refinery, but the
care, human nutrition, animal health, plans are much bigger. Our goal is to
and soil & crop health. All of its ingre- leverage the high availability of coffee
dients are derived from the compounds Bueno has dedicated itself to convert- by-products worldwide to continuously
naturally found in coffee by-products, ing coffee by-products into viable, sus- reduce transport emissions and costs
which they isolate using green techno- tainable resources, with a targeted aim for all stakeholders. Therefore, this is
logical innovations. to diminish the significant CO emis- just the first of many biorefineries to
2
sions derived from brewing 3-billion come,” added Mr. Camilo Fernandez,
Since launching in 2016, Kaffe cups of coffee daily across the globe. co-founder and CFO of Kaffe Bueno.

COATINGS TECHNOLOGY
AkzoNobel moves to help beverage can industry

conform to changing regulations

The beverage can industry’s facility is expected to be operational
ongoing efforts to move to products by mid-2025. Commenting on the new
free from materials of concern are facility, Mr. Jim Kavanagh, Director of
being boosted by the launch of next AkzoNobel’s Industrial Coatings busi-
generation coatings technology from ness, said it will help the company res-
AkzoNobel – while a new production pond to a strong need from the packag-
plant is also being constructed in Spain. ing industry. “The Vilafranca plant will
allow us to offer leading-edge products
The company’s Packaging Coatings to any customer and country in EMEA,
business has just launched the first two responding to the most stringent bis-
products in its new Accelstyle range. phenol regulations in force in Europe.
Designed for the exterior of conven- The investment is in line with our view
tional two-piece aluminium beverage complies with US FDA and EU regu- that bisphenols are no longer required
cans, both are free from bisphenols, lations. to create safe food contact coatings for
styrene and PFAS (per- and polyfluoro- the metal packaging industry.”
alkyl substances). They follow on At the same time, AkzoNobel is
from the May 2023 launch of Accel- investing €32-mn in a new plant at its “The bisphenol-free products we’ve
shield 700 – the first BPx-NI (free of Vilafranca site, which will produce developed have a lower carbon foot-
intentionally added bisphenols) internal bisphenol-free coatings for the metal print, compared with those we previ-
coating for beverage can ends – which packaging industry in EMEA. The ously supplied,” he added.

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