By-product

We supported an innovation director of a fat and oil company to valorise one of its key by-products (sunflower wax).

As the potential market for application is diverse, we first identified and selected the most promising application markets and subsequently, deep dived on the selected markets to build a market entry strategy.

At the end of our project, our client had a clear vision on the market segment to target and how to approach the interested players.

As part of their manufacturing process, our client in the dairy industry wanted to explore how they could valorize their by-products in the pharmaceutical and health supplement industries.

Alcimed conducted a thorough literature review to identify latest research on dairy functional ingredients and a cross-analysis with the disease prevalence and health trends in the market.

Thanks to our analysis, we then co-prioritised goods according on the market potential and co-designed a valorization strategy during a workshop with our client’s team.

Our client, a major industrial agri-food player, wanted to explore the potential of valorising their animal by-products that were not intended for human consumption.

Alcimed conducted an in-depth analysis based on regulatory requirements, market demand, market segmentation and competitor analysis to support our client in identifying potential markets and applications for their animal by-products notably in food, feed and energy sectors.

One of our customers, a leading alcoholic beverage company, had the ambition to reduce its carbon footprint by 50% by 2030. However, the valorization of distillery by-products was energy-intensive.

Alcimed’s role was to assist the technical director in benchmarking the technologies used in combustion, gasification, and other thermo-chemical technologies for wet co-products.

We then evaluated the feasibility of some of these technologies for our client’s co-products. Alcimed was thus able to recommend two relevant options allowing our client to valorize its co-products by optimizing its energy consumption!

We worked with a French environmental industrialist on its strategy to valorize by-products for the production of biohydrogrene.

Initially, our customer wanted to obtain an overview of the hydrogen market and industrial applications in Europe, as well as the technical specifications of the hydrogen used by the industries we investigated. Secondly, the aim was to assess the interest of potential customers – industrial gas suppliers – in developing a biohydrogen supply offer.

To this end, Alcimed conducted interviews with both industry experts and industrial gas suppliers, in order to assess their interest in offering biohydrogen instead of conventional hydrogen to their customers. In the end, we selected 2 applications whose industrial use was compatible with a biohydrogen supply.

One of our customers, an industrial player, wanted to assess the benefits of implementing a valorisation strategy for its nitrate co-products.

To do this, we began with an overview of the fertilizer market, in particular the nitrate market (trends, issues, main players, local needs, analysis of import and export flows, etc.). We then analyzed the demand for nitrate fertilizers among market players.

These two steps enabled us to provide our customer with an overview of the nitrate fertilizer market in France, to quantify fertilizer consumption volumes and import flows, and finally to assess the need and interest for our customer to deploy an approach to valorizing its co-products.

One of our customers, the director of a production factory, wanted to identify ways of valorizing the salts generated during the incineration of its waste.

To this end, our team carried out a literature review as well as several qualitative interviews with players from different market segments using salts in their activities. This enabled us to identify target markets that could represent a value-adding opportunity for our customer. We then assessed the receptiveness of potential customers within these markets, to determine their needs and expectations with regard to these products, and to evaluate the potential of each recovery source.

Our study enabled our customer to rapidly identify value-added opportunities and define the technical specifications required to meet their expectations.