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A biorefinery for upcycling coffee waste into sustainable, healthy, high-value ingredients

Objective

Kaffe Bueno has developed an innovative model for upcycling coffee waste into high-value ingredients. Coffee is highly bioactive with huge reservoirs of lipids, melanoidins and phenols. Yet we currently use just 1% of its potential. Discarded coffee waste ends up in landfill, producing methane and CO2, or is reused as biofuel or compost. Kaffe Bueno transforms this wasted resource into a business opportunity. We produce high quality coffee oil, melanoidins and lignin/phenols as sustainable, natural active ingredients, sold B2B to manufacturers of cosmetics and personal care products, helping Denmark and the EU meet their targets for carbon reduction by 2030. We aim to valorise 100% of our coffee waste feedstock. In this project, Kaffe Bueno will build and optimise a demo biorefinery with the capacity to process 200 tons of coffee waste /year, using our efficient, proprietary process, then use equity to expand this plants capacity to 1200 tons and invest in R & D for new applications.

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HORIZON-EIC-ACC-BF - HORIZON EIC Accelerator Blended Finance

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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01

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Coordinator

KAFFE BUENO APS
Net EU contribution

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€ 2 490 687,50
Address
ISLEVDALVEJ 211
2610 RODOVRE
Denmark

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SME

The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.

Yes
Region
Danmark Hovedstaden Københavns omegn
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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Total cost

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€ 3 558 125,00
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