Commercialisation of flavour and fragrance products from food grade spent coffee grounds

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bio-bean is the world's largest spent coffee ground (SCG) recycling company, currently processing c.7,500 tonnes of SCG per annum. SCG is a high-volume waste problem in the order of over 500,000 tonnes in the UK alone. SCG contains a variety of valuable residual chemical compounds which are currently being combusted in our solid biofuel products (pellets and briquettes (Coffee Logs)). To date bio-bean has been successful in extracting the flavour and fragrance (F&F) compounds from the SCG to produce an F&F proof of concept product. These F&F products are complimentary to the solid biofuel products but have a considerably higher sales price per tonne of SCG used in their manufacture, meaning their commercialisation can give bio-bean a major profitability boost allowing further expansion and greater opportunities to recycle SCG. The F&F products are likely to be used as ingredients in the food beverage (F&B) sector (specifically the ready to drink beverage market) which is growing and estimated to be worth $9bn globally. The project enables bio-bean to complete the late stage R&D required to commercialise the F&F products. bio-bean will manufacture its first two F&F products, an aqueous and lipid based natural flavour, through third party tolling companies and sell these products to its potential customers (F&F houses, product manufacturers and distributors), demonstrating market demand for disruptive, sustainable and innovative products from SCG. Successful demonstration of scaled production and market will enable bio-bean to invest in its own F&F product extraction and processing plant in the UK, to be sited alongside its solid biofuel plant, creating operational synergies, jobs, profits, CO2e savings and a reduction in the harmful effects of virgin coffee bean farming/petrochemical synthesis.