World’s first combined biofertilizer-biogas facility using poultry waste opens
Ductor, a Finnish-Swiss biotechnology company committed to finding solutions for global food challenges, opened its first commercial-scale organic fertilizer- and biogas-producing facility in October in Jalisco, Mexico.
The facility is the world’s first fully integrated production system that uses 100% poultry waste to produce two separate products, significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions from both the energy and agriculture sectors. Biomethane replaces pipeline natural gas, and organic nitrogen fertilizer replaces traditional products made with fossil fuels.
“We founded Ductor because we were worried about global challenges around hunger and the food supply of the future. We wanted to find solutions to make farming ecological again and to contribute to providing all people with nourishment that is adequate, rich in nutrients, and safe. Now we have turned that vision into action for the first time with the new facility in Mexico,” Mr. Ari Ketola, the Co-Founder and CEO of Ductor, says.
Since patenting its system in 2015, Ductor has completed development and commercialization of its groundbreaking innovation for international deployment. The fermentation technology converts chicken manure into efficient organic fertilizer useful to large-scale farming and biogas in the form of biomethane to replace fossil fuel energy.
An urgent need for healthier agriculture
During the last 40 years, over 30% of the world’s arable land has become unproductive. Topsoil is being lost from land areas at a rate 10 to 40 times faster than soil renewal. This imperils future human food security and environmental quality. Ductor’s products slow down this degradation and return farming grounds to a healthy, productive state. Healthier soils and ecological farming also contribute to less polluted waters.
“Ductor is committed to increasing agricultural biodiversity, enriching soils, improving watersheds, and enhancing ecosystem services. We need to capture carbon in soil and aboveground biomass, reversing current global trends of atmospheric accumulation,” Ms. Jennifer Barber, the President of Ductor Americas, says.
Ductor sees itself as nature’s development partner.
“We try to help nature do its own job better by making use of natural waste and putting it back to work as carbon-negative fertilizers and renewable energy,” Mr. Ketola says.
Ductor has now several similar projects underway in the Americas and Europe.
For more information, please contact: www.ductor.com
Attachments: Picture from the Jalisco Facility
Ductor is a global biotech company with an ambition to fight climate change, produce renewable energy, and solve the increasing food demand and waste accumulations challenges. We are changing the world through groundbreaking innovation, design, and circular economy. Ductor was founded in 2009 in Helsinki, Finland. Today we operate globally in North America, Europe, and Asia. One day we’ll be everywhere.
