Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TOUA20240226047
- Term of Validity
- 26 February 2024 - 25 February 2025
- Company's Country
- Ukraine
- Type of partnership
- Investment agreementCommercial agreement with technical assistanceResearch and development cooperation agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- A Ukrainian SME plans to introduce technology for processing mushroom waste in EU countries. Processing makes it possible to obtain valuable raw materials that can be used, for example, in the food industry, as well as in growing mushrooms. The SME is looking for investors to introduce the technology and launch production and partners for joint research, testing, and certification of the technology and the processed products.
- Full Description
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Today, the situation with the cultivation and sale of mushrooms is such that a lot of mushroom waste remains in the form of disease-damaged mushrooms, mushroom stems with peat and returns of unsold mushrooms. This waste is not used in any way but can be processed without waste into valuable products, and, in particular, used in mushroom cultivation.
The Ukrainian SME, which has many years of experience in growing mushroom mycelium and developing technology for processing mushroom waste, offers technology for processing mushroom waste into valuable substances.
The technology allows you to process both the mushrooms themselves and mushroom waste (stems, substandard mushrooms, returns, damaged mushrooms).
Main stages of processing:
1. Drying, during which time, mushrooms/mushroom waste lose moisture, but retain most of their beneficial properties.
2. Extraction of substances contained in mushrooms using supercritical extraction.
This process uses a supercritical fluid (most often carbon dioxide), which, under certain conditions of temperature and pressure, can penetrate the pores of the material and dissolve the target components. After this, the pressure decreases, and useful substances are precipitated and collected. The final product is obtained by hydrolysis.
From 100 kg of processed mushrooms/waste, are obtained:
- 200 grams of vitamin D;
- 100 grams of mushroom alcohol;
- 3 kg of glucans;
- 1.5 kg chitosan glucan complex;
- 400 l of fertilizers.
In general, the estimated cost of the resulting substances is estimated at more than 1500 Euros. At the same time, the cost of growing 100 kg of mushrooms is estimated at 200 Euros.
To implement the technology and launch production based on the proposed technology, the SME is looking for investments through an investment agreement, as well as partners for testing, certification of both the technology and processed products, and dissemination of the technology through a commercial agreement with technical assistance and/or a research and development cooperation agreement. - Advantages and Innovations
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- Processing of mushroom waste into valuable and widely used substances (recycling in the EU is paid, but not yet in all EU countries).
- High extraction efficiency, preservation of the quality and activity of useful substances, and no need to use organic solvents.
- High-margin, commercial mushrooms can be used as a raw material.
When a mushroom cultivation farm transforms to the processing of mushroom waste, the increase in yield is 45 kg/m2, it is possible to collect the mushroom mechanically (which will significantly reduce the cost) 28 kg per m2 of commercial mushroom is collected. In addition, the number of personnel can be significantly reduced. - Stage of Development
- Available for demonstration
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The SME is looking for partners and investors who would be interested in joint work on testing, calibration, and international certification of the technology and the processed products, and further joint commercial use of certified technology and the processed products to enter the EU markets.
The SME is looking for:
- Investors who help to start the production via an investment agreement;
- Partners (SMEs, universities, R&D institutions) who would be interested in the technology and the products testing, and certification via a research and development cooperation agreement or a commercial agreement with technical assistance;
- The distributor of the technology and the products in Europe and the rest of the world to help with the requirements and market research. - Type and Size of Partner
- SME 11-49UniversityR&D InstitutionSME <=10SME 50 - 249
- Type of partnership
- Investment agreementCommercial agreement with technical assistanceResearch and development cooperation agreement
Call details
- Coordinator required
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Yes
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 07001001 - Agriculture Machinery / Technology
- Market keywords
- 09005 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, Animal Husbandry & Related Products
- Targeted countries
- All countries
