NUTRA NEWS: UpFront builds biggest chromatography plant
Danish UpFront Chromatography has announced a collaboration with Solanic for the installation of a Rhobust industrial production plant for the extraction of high-quality functional proteins from the side-stream of potato starch production.
Solanic is a business unit of the world’s largest producer of potato starch and starch derivatives, Avebe.
The installation can process over 100,000 litres of raw material each day and is part of a larger project ultimately planned to extract even more than 10,000 tonnes per year of high value functional proteins. The project will be the world’s biggest industrial protein chromatography installation by far. The processing platform can capture, extract and purify functional biomolecules directly from bioreactors and industrial side-streams.
“The applications for Rhobust are substantial and growing, having been implemented in a diverse range of raw materials including fermentation broths, whey,
egg white and human plasma. Our Rhobust technology is already used in the world’s largest adsorption process for the industrial isolation of immunoglobulins from whey, comments Anders Weber, CEO of UpFront Chromatography.
