Fish feed. (Photo: Cargill)

Cargill and Calysta partner to produce new aquaculture feed ingredient

UNITED STATES
Wednesday, November 30, 2016, 02:40 (GMT + 9)

Cargill Incorporated and Calysta, Inc., along with several third-party institutions, are planning to invest in the creation of the world’s largest gas fermentation facility in Memphis, Tennessee.

The new facility is intended to produce Calysta’s FeedKind® protein, a family of sustainable, traceable nutritional ingredients for fish, livestock and pets.

The new venture plans to build and operate this facility on Cargill’s 69-acre property on President’s Island, where Cargill currently produces corn oil and stores and distributes sweetener products.

The facility is expected to come online in late 2018, producing up to 20,000 metric tons per year of FeedKind® protein initially and expanding up to 200,000 metric tons per year when operating at full capacity.

Upon completion of the plant, the new venture expects to hire 75 permanent employees and expand to 160 people when the plant is at full ramp-up.

Cargill’s Global Vice President of Bioindustrial, Brian Silvey, welcomed the initiative and explained the venture’s building of a state-of-the-art fermentation facility on the existing Cargill Memphis site reaffirms their commitment to the community and state and their pledge to strategically invest in aquaculture as an ever increasingly important source of protein.

FeedKind® protein is a proprietary, competitively priced, new feed ingredient initially targeted as an alternative to fishmeal for the aquaculture industry. It is produced using the world’s only commercially validated gas fermentation process.

Cargill and Calysta jointly will be marketing FeedKind® protein globally.

“With a proven and proprietary fermentation platform, Calysta is introducing a scalable and disruptive protein source critical to meeting the needs of a growing global population,” pointed out Calysta President and Chief Executive Officer, Alan Shaw, Ph.D.

Shaw also stated that partnering with Cargill, a leader in fermentation and protein production, and others to invest in the establishment of the venture as the first US manufacturing plant to commercially produce FeedKind® protein, significantly accelerates FeedKind® protein’s launch in the aquaculture industry at commercial scale.

In this sense, the executive recalled that in September 2016, Calysta opened an R&D and market introduction facility in the United Kingdom to produce samples of FeedKind® protein that can be used in aquaculture, livestock and pet markets worldwide.

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- Calysta sets up aquaculture feed plant in Teesside

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