Two Danish biotech companies just secured major government backing to build a demonstration facility that turns waste gases into commercial products.
Unibio and Again will receive 24.6 million kroner (about $3.3 million) from Innovation Fund Denmark for a three-year project with a total budget of 37.1 million kroner. The goal is proving their gas fermentation technology works at commercial scale.
Unibio has developed U-Loop technology, which converts methane and other gases into valuable materials. The company originally focused on making sustainable protein, but the platform can produce a wider range of industrial products.
Again tackles the problem from a different angle. The Copenhagen-based firm specializes in capturing waste COâ‚‚ and transforming it into chemicals and fertilizers. Their pitch is simple: make essential products from emissions rather than virgin materials, and do it cost-effectively.
The demonstration facility will test whether these approaches can move beyond the lab and into real-world industrial settings. That’s the tricky part with climate technologies. Plenty work in theory. Proving they can scale profitably is another story.
Denmark has positioned itself as a testbed for green industrial tech. The country’s innovation fund regularly backs projects aimed at decarbonizing manufacturing and creating circular economy solutions.
If successful, the facility could offer an alternative to traditional chemical production methods. Industries currently rely heavily on fossil fuels as feedstock. Technologies that use waste gases instead could chip away at those emissions while creating new revenue streams from what’s now just pollution.
The partners have three years to show it can work.
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