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

KB-BIOREFINERY · Horizon Europe grant · 2021-11-01–2024-03-31

EC contribution

€2,490,688

Total cost

€3,558,125

Beneficiaries

1

About the data

Source: CORDIS (official EU open data), Horizon Europe. Framework HORIZON · call HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01 · scheme HORIZON-EIC-ACC-BF · topic HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01-02. CORDIS record →

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 plant’s capacity to 1200 tons and invest in R & D for new applications.

Beneficiaries (1)

Organisation	Country	Role	EC contribution	SME
KAFFE BUENO APS	DK	coordinator	€2,490,688	Yes

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