AFYREN, the specialized company into carboxylic acids using the fermenting process, announced the successful results of the industrial scale-up of its AFYNERIE technology. The Company, based at the Biop\u00f4le of Clermont-Limagne, Saint-Beauzire (France), realized a major industrial proof-of-concept through the validation of its fermenting technology with 70 000 liters. The erected platform, located at Cristal Union\u2019s site in Clermont-Ferrand, led to the production of \u201chundreds of kilograms \u00bb of bio-based organic acids from \u00ab tons of sugar-based by-products. These acetic, propionic, butyric, isobutyric, valeric, isovaleric and caproic acids are dedicated to the nutrition, chemicals, and cosmetic sectors\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u00abBased on this scale-up AFYREN is joining the exclusive ranks of Biotech Start-ups ready for industrialization of production. This success helps us working with confidence on our fund raising objective\u00bb, welcomes Nicolas Sordet, AFYREN\u2019s CEO, adding that \u00ab clearly we are raising 10 millions of euros to finance our growth, our scale up from industrial pilot to production scale, and indeed to represent us as one of the most advanced companies in the world when it comes to bio-based products substitutable to petro-sourced molecules\u00bb.<\/p>\n
This further step on the road to full-scale production is now being taken and it will allow the company to reinforce its expectations for the construction of an industrial unit. \u00ab Currently we are involved on the industrial deployment of the process into an existing fully integrated sugar industrial platform, with high potential of technical and services-based synergies. The objective being to construct the first industrial unit in France \u00bb, emphasizes J\u00e9r\u00e9my Pessiot, AFYREN\u2019s Founder & Managing Director.<\/p>\n