Water treatment process could recycle agrifood by-products

Dual closed-loop water treatment technology can recycle the nutrient by-products to produce an animal feed ingredient.

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Chia Tai Henning Modern Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. (CP Henning), a wholly owned subsidiary of agrifood company Charoen Pokphand Group, has entered into a Strategic Cooperation Agreement with biotechnology company iCell Sustainable Nutrition Co., Ltd.

Recycling nutrient by-products

Both parties agreed to work together to use dual closed-loop water treatment technology to recycle the nutrient by-products from agricultural and animal husbandry food enterprises of CP Henning to successfully produce a single cell protein (SCP) feed ingredient that can be used in the company’s feed mills.

Wastewater from poultry processing plants may damage beneficial microbes and organisms that are naturally occurring in the environment.

The wastewater treatment process could help reduce the company’s pollution, carbon footprint and operating costs and reflects CP Henning’s operating principles – to benefit the country, benefit the people and benefit the enterprise. Consumers consistently rank sustainability and environmental welfare as a key motivating factor in making decisions about purchases.

Future CP Henning food plants will be designed with the wastewater treatment technology in mind. This will make the treatment of wastewater containing compounded mixtures more convenient and help reduce the costs associate with sewage treatment.

December 24 signing ceremony

Li Sumei, the COO of CP Henning, and Song Jianhua, the Vice President of Operations of iCell, signed the agreement at a signing ceremony on December 24, 2020.

“Our plants take the national and the public interests as our top priority during operation and put social responsibility in the first place of our task list,” Sumei said in a statement. “The Agreement between CP Henning and iCell will bring synergistic development towards a win-win outcome to us both parties, and serve as a solid witness of our company’s fulfillment to social responsibility”

“With CP, a leading conglomerate in animal nutrition industry, we highly look forward to the cooperation with them to achieve resourceful utilization of waste nutrients from CP plants and meanwhile create a novel and sustainable source of SCP proteins for CP feed mills,” said iCell CEO Mark Rottman.

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