SYLFEED
From forest to feed: enable the wood industry to bridge the protein gap
Project details
- Type of project
- Innovation Action - Demonstration
- Project focus
- Food, feed & cosmetics
- Feedstock origin
- Forestry waste
- Feedstock type
- Lignin & wood residues
- Project period
- 1 September 2017 - 31 August 2021
- Status
- Completed
- CBE JU Contribution
- € 8 695 068,10
- Call identifier
- H2020-BBI-JTI-2016
Summary
Europe faces a major protein deficit, ranging between 80 and 70 % over the past 40 years, which has been covered by imports. At the same time, as the world population grows, the demand for food will increase globally. The SYLFEED project started to bridge this gap by upscaling a biorefinery concept that could convert woody biomass into high-value single-cell protein (SCP) for use as animal feed, notably in increasing fish production.
Wood residues are abundant and highly sustainable, while SCP has an amino-acid profile close to that of fish, making them an excellent raw material in fish feed formulation. The SYLFEED project demonstrated the conversion of woody biomass into proteins for use in aquaculture, establishing synergies between the forestry industry and the protein fish feed market. It created new high-value opportunities for the forestry sector and an alternative and sustainable protein source for fish farms.
Consortium map
Project coordination
- ARBIOM PARIS, France
Consortium
- SKRETTING AQUACULTURE RESEARCH CENTRE AS STAVANGER, Norway
- FODURVERKSMIDJAN LAXA HF Akureyri, Iceland
- BIOPROCESS PILOT FACILITY BV Delft, Netherlands
- NORSKE SKOG GOLBEY Golbey, France
- MATIS OHF REYKJAVIK, Iceland
- BIO BASE EUROPE PILOT PLANT VZW DESTELDONK GENT, Belgium
- NORSUS NORSK INSTITUTT FOR BAEREKRAFTSFORSKNING AS KRAKEROY, Norway
- PRAYON SA Engis, Belgium
- RISE PROCESSUM AB Ornskoldsvik, Sweden
