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Holiferm - Holiferm
Holiferm develops processes for manufacturing biochemicals in eco-friendly and sustainable ways. Holiferm currently produces biosurfactants.
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Financial period: 1 Jun 2023 to 31 May 2024
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Published 25 Sep 2024 10:46
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Holiferm develops technology designed to improve the lipid fermentation process.
Holiferm develops holistically improved fermentation technology for massive fermentation and downstream cost reductions. The technology uses gravity separation to recover insoluble lipids as they are produced by fermentation. It has demonstrated gravity separation technology, in combination with an enhanced fermentation technique, to pilot scale with sophorolipid biosurfactants, reaching titers >800 g/l and productivites >5 g/l/h, more than double state of the art, and estimated to reduce production costs by >40%. Holiferm offer licences of sophorolipid production technology for reduced production costs.
2018 - Selected to join the ICURe Innovation to Commercialisation programme, funded by Innovate UK and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), allowing access up to £35,000 for business development . 2018 - Founders won the BBSRC early career innovator of the year 2018 award for their work on integrated production and gravity separation of biosurfactants.
1 Jul 2024 to 30 Jun 2026
There is growing industrial, consumer and regulatory demand for sustainable alternative ingredients for a range of everyday products, with a particular focus on surfactant-based formulations. The necessity of sustainable, bio-based materials for the future economy is emphasised under "Materials for the future economy", Innovate UK Materials and manufactur...
1 Oct 2023 to 31 Mar 2024
Harnessing biology to produce the chemicals, materials and fuels of the future (biomanufacturing) is expected to displace our unsustainable dependency on fossil fuels such as oil. One unaddressed problem is that biomanufacturing processes generate significant quantities of microbial waste which requires processing and safe disposal. This adds to the costs...
1 Jan 2022 to 31 Dec 2023
There is increasing industrial, regulatory and consumer sentiment towards to the use of greener alternatives for a range of everyday products with a particular focus on formulated non-food items (with over 73% of eco-consumers researching environmentally-friendly credentials of household cleaning and personal care products, compared to only 61% for food p...
1 Apr 2021 to 30 Jun 2023
1 Nov 2020 to 31 Oct 2023
There is increasing industrial, regulatory and consumer sentiment towards to the use of greener alternatives for a range of everyday products with a particular focus on formulated non-food items (with over 73% of eco-consumers researching environmentally-friendly credentials of household cleaning and personal care products, compared to only 61% for food p...
1 Jun 2020 to 30 Nov 2020
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1 Jul 2019 to 31 Mar 2021
"For many applications biobased chemicals produced by fermentation have enhanced functionality compared to petrochemically derived products but are significantly more expensive to manufacture and are therefore only used in niche applications. Most surfactants in use in the cosmetic industry are currently oil-based irritants, and many in the agricultural m...
