Processing Technology

Unlocking The Power
of Plant Biomass

Advanced Bio-Processing

Advanced Bio-Processing

We create and deliver farming solutions and processing facilities, which will unlock the industrial potential of plant biomass at scale.

In doing so we provide viable climate positive alternatives to petrochemicals and synthetic fibres.

  • Vision: Enable climate positive supply chains across the globe.

  • Key Benefits: 

    01. We provide solutions that generate higher yield and better quality output at significantly lower capital and reduced energy cost.

    02. Our technology has the ability to handle non-retted raw material, which significantly reduces farming risk and increases the viability of fibre crops in rotation for growers.

    03. Our defibrilation technology can process any cereal crop to increase carbon availability to digestion to a level our competitors’ cannot match for a much reduced cost of ownership.

FIBAMAX® Technologies

Through proprietary technologies, from farming to processing, we significantly increase the viability of plant biomass.

    Lead Technologies

  • 01. Cereal Crop Defibrillation – Patent-protected, low-energy, low-cost of ownership technology that breaks open straw stem structures to massively increase surface area, improving digestibility and accelerating processing rates for animal feed and anaerobic digestion.

  • 02. Micro Decortication™: A low impact, patent protected process that yields micro structured materials for manufacturing, building and composite products.

  • 03. HyTex™ – Hydro Thermal Extraction: A patentable proprietary process that delivers high-quality native fibre and yield increases compared to conventional methods.

Our Advantage - Introducing Phytofinery®

Phytofinery® is a processing factory for plant biomass using our protected technology. They can be small scale or industrial scale able to process over 100,000 tonnes of plant biomass annually.

    Phytofinery® Advantages

  • Proprietary Processing: Our factories use our own protected Defibrillation, Micro Decortication™ and HyTEx™ processing techniques. This enables the use of green bio-mass which de-risks conventional bio-mass farming methods, maximising the whole plant into high-value component parts.

  • Versatile Biomass Approach: Our technology can process a wide range of cereal straws, supporting more diverse crop rotations for farmers while increasing value and profitability across the supply chain.

  • Industrial Scale: The special combination of different value chains in one facility reduces cost and provides flexible options for customised products to serve various industries.

Why Industrial
Plant Biomass?

01

Industrial plant biomass delivers a 4x growth rate per hectare (vs cereal crops), capturing up to 30 tonnes of CO2 per hectare.
02

Improving soil health extends viable land areas for food supply chains, ensuring food security.

03

Plant derived products are expected to enter high scale growth in the coming years. The global market for Hemp will reach over €25 billion by 2028.
Hemp Uses
04

Transition to renewable sources for global commodity products will improve lives, secure natural habitats, and power the green revolution.
Carbon Capture
05

Emission avoidance and storing CO2 through plant-derived solutions are key to reaching global corporate and social responsibility targets.
Wheat Field. Adding value towaste streams
06

Converting agricultural residue streams into high-performance, value-added products.

PHYTOFINERY® ADDITIONAL BENEFITS

  • BENEFITS THROUGHOUT THE VALUE CHAIN

    We design and build highly efficient, fully automated, and AI-supported processing hubs, that are able to deliver a highly customisable competitive product range which has many extended benefits across the value chain.

    • Farming Benefit – increased demand and value for crops like Hemp extends the crop rotation with low input crops mitigating the risk of crop failure and operation losses, and beneficial soil improvement.
    • Supply Chain Benefit – provide bio-based alternatives at scale and competitive price.
    • Climate Benefit -lock up extracted CO2 from the atmosphere in biomass derived products, that reduce that need for synthetic materials. Establishing CO2 negative supply chains with many climate benefits, from clean air to clean environment.

  • LOW ENERGY PROCESSING

    The FIBAMAX® solution is designed by a team of experts and an advanced consortium of industrial partners, creating a unique, vertically integrated facility which uses significantly less energy than traditional processing plants.

    By utilising only renewable energy in the PHYTOFINERY® design our CO2 footprint is dramatically reduced along the value chain, from field to product.

  • RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

    FIBAMAX® has over 5 years of research and development in biomass processing and nearly 100 years of combined expertise amongst the team. Our products are at different stages of their own development programmes

Partners & Collaborators