Deep Branch is a carbon recycling biotechnology company using microbes to convert carbon dioxide from industrial emissions into high-value products. Their first product, Proton™, is a sustainable protein developed for the animal feed industry, addressing the need for sustainable and cost-effective protein ingredients with precision nutrition for animal diets.

Deep Branch

Deep Branch uses clean and renewable carbon and energy to create ingredients for a more sustainable food system. With a customer-focused research and development pipeline, it can quickly deliver high-quality, next-generation bio-based products to meet society’s demand for food and feed sustainably.
 
By collaborating with local providers of strategic raw materials, Deep Branch can identify the best sites that offer sustainable input supply while helping develop the local economy. The company’s proprietary (R)evolve™ gas fermentation platform also uses sustainable and scalable feedstocks, strengthening its competitive edge in the global food and feed ingredients markets.
 
Deep Branch has established strong partnerships across the value chain as it deploys its gas fermentation platform with a clear scale-up roadmap backed by world-leading investors and strategic partners. It also has a proven track record of integrating with carbon dioxide suppliers to deploy its technology efficiently and safely. Combining entrepreneurial drive with industrial experience, Deep Branch’s scientists and engineers produce ground-breaking innovations to meet market demand.
 
Creating locally-produced ingredients with up to 60% smaller carbon footprints than traditional alternatives means Deep Branch’s products require no arable land and minimal water. With benefits such as these, the company is tackling the climate crisis and addressing biodiversity loss by helping secure the future of the global food system without consumers compromising on nutrition or quality.

We're hiring for a number of roles at Brightlands Chemelot Campus:

- Pilot Plant Operators
- Bioprocess Technician
- Microbiology Technician

Check out our Workable for more details and please share with anyone who wants to join us in making our food system more sustainable!

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Our CEO Peter Rowe features in the latest edition of The Future of Protein Production magazine!

Peter joins other #alternativeprotein experts to share his thoughts about air-based proteins, including:

🔷 How they will soon own a large proportion of the global food market.
🔷 Their diverse range of applications, from #aquaculture to human diets.
🔷 The importance of educating stakeholders about their benefits.

Read the article in full from page 32 👉
https://lnkd.in/em3vU26C

Gas fermentation - the new frontier 🚀

Innovative companies are showing a renewed interest in the potential of fermentation to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges. At the forefront of this movement is a groundbreaking new approach with the power to transform how we produce food forever: gas fermentation.

But how does #gasfermentation work? Learn more about the process 👇

Positive news from the sustainable protein industry! European governments have directed almost €500 million towards developing more sustainable proteins.

A new report by The Good Food Institute has found that €477m has been provided to projects and companies working to develop more sustainable foods, such as plant-based and cultivated meat. The bulk of this amount (€370m) was invested by European governments last year alone.

With food production currently accounting for a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions, this is a positive sign that decision-makers are recognising and acting on the potential of #alternativeproteins to transform our food system.

Read more in BusinessGreen 👉https://lnkd.in/e8Fz2rBF

A new report from the World Resources Institute shows that, despite pledges made at COP26, #deforestation intensified in 2022, with an area of tropical forest the size of Switzerland lost to deforestation.

This surge in deforestation suggests the 2021 Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests, which commits to working collectively to "halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030", is off track.

However, the report also found that this trend is reversible. Positive developments in countries like Indonesia, which has reduced its primary tropical forest loss more than any other country in recent years, show that reversing deforestation is possible. 

We are doing our part to reverse the trend by developing our product Proton™.

Unlike other plant-based protein sources, the #gasfermentation process on which our core technology is based doesn’t require arable land. We calculate that producing 100,000 tonnes of our product Proton™ will prevent the requirement for a soy plantation three times the size of Paris.

Catching up on developments in the lab 🧑🔬

Most of our international team is split between Brightlands Chemelot Campus in the Netherlands and the University of Nottingham in the UK. While spread apart geographically, we always meet and connect in person when the opportunity arises.

Our Vice President of Commercial and Sales John Hays, was recently in Nottingham for some face-to-face meetings. While there, he seized the chance to visit our lab-based team to check in on their pioneering work enhancing our #gasfermentation technology.

Our UK lab team are currently working in many areas, including strain development and the technical scaling of our platform #technology and its growing applications.

Here’s our fermentation lead Anne M. Henstra at work in our Nottingham lab 👇

El Niño is officially here. So what does this mean for our planet?

The NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration recently confirmed the onset of El Niño, a weather phenomenon involving the warming of the surface of the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean that occurs every two to seven years. The implications of this weather event are extensive.

With El Niño here to stay for up to a year, solutions to curb the impact of this weather event are more urgent than ever. 

We’re doing our part to protect against the potential disruption to food supplies by developing Proton™. Our #gasfermentation process is entirely self-contained and independent from weather events. This means we can guarantee continuous production, regardless of location, weather or climate.

Read more about the potential impact of El Niño in The Guardian 👉 https://lnkd.in/e5QExRjy

Listen to our story so far 📖

Our CEO, Peter Rowe, recently delved into the Deep Branch journey on the Rooted in Change #podcast. In the episode, Pete tells Jan Christoph Bohnerth about our company journey - from our origins as scribbled calculations on the back of an envelope to an international business backed by €20 million in #investment with plans to launch our pilot production facility next year. 

Listen to Pete and Jan’s conversation to learn more about the challenges we’ve faced and milestones we’ve achieved so far on our #startup journey👉 https://lnkd.in/eQi23jPU

What does #carboncapture have to do with protein?

At Deep Branch we’re committed to using clean ingredients to produce climate-friendly food. To achieve this, we only use food-grade CO₂ to produce our protein, and we position ourselves squarely within the value chains of carbon capture, utilisation (CCUS) technologies. 

But what exactly is CCU?

#CCU is the process by which CO₂ is captured and recycled for further usage. This prevents the release of excess carbon into the atmosphere and repurposes it instead, as a valuable by-product to produce other goods.

How do we source our carbon?

With CCU, we’re moving carbon through our economy without pulling it out of the ground. You can view our technology as the U in a CCU value chain - utilising the purified carbon dioxide to produce high-quality products. We feed this clean carbon (together with hydrogen and simple micronutrients) into our (R)evolve gas fermentation platform, where microbes turn into our single cell #protein product Proton™.

By turning CO₂ into a climate-friendly protein, we help contribute to a more sustainable #animalfeed industry.

Learn more about our process 👉 https://lnkd.in/dc3M9Yf 

#alternativeprotein #sustainablefoodindustry

Get ready to start seeing more carbon footprint labelling on your food 👀

New research from Ipsos suggests Europeans are highly motivated to buy sustainable food to reduce their climate impact, with 76% of people saying they would like to know the #carbonfootprint of the food they buy.

How do we solve this? Carbon footprint labelling is an easy way of helping consumers make more sustainable choices.

We strongly support giving customers more information about where their #food comes from. The production process for our single-cell protein Proton™ is completely transparent and traceable, meaning its carbon footprint can be measured accurately. We’ve calculated that Proton can reduce the footprint of #animalfeed by 60% compared to conventional proteins. 

Read more about how #sustainability considerations influence the way we shop in FoodNavigator 👉 https://lnkd.in/emEMYvf7

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