Asahi and EMBION plan to upcycle brewery by-products

Industrial biotechnology and green chemistry innovator EMBION Technologies and Asahi Group Holdings have partnered together to deliver new products by combining each partner’s expertise. Along with Asahi’s R&D subsidiary company, they aim to create new products from brewing by-products, building a circular economy through sustainable sourcing and production.

Embion will provide technology for biomass processing and deriving customised, bioactive super-extracts from plant and microbial biomass. Its technology is designed to accelerate the development of functional nutrition by tapping into and extracting potent molecules from industrial biomass side streams.

The collaboration between the parties was initiated more than two years ago when Embion was developing its first super-extract PREMBION for supporting antibiotics-free growing of production animals by upcycling the grain by-product that is generated through the process of beer making.

As part of this partnership, Embion has raised part of the Series A funding round which opened earlier in mid-November, with existing shareholders’ strong expected participation.

“We are very excited about the strategic cooperation with Asahi. By building strategic alliances like this, we can leverage our platform technology globally and continue our growth trajectory, which will be supported by our Series A funding round launched in mid-November,” Andreas Th. Weckherlin, Chairman of the Board at Embion, said.

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