CP Foods Thailand’s business units produce around 270,000 tonnes of animal manure every year which is discarded into landfills. These waste products often consist of a mixture of manure and rice husks.

Objectives:

CP Foods Thailand is looking to identify potential solutions to convert these waste products into value and reduce their carbon footprint.

One of the potential solutions that CP Food Thailand would like to explore would be to convert these waste products into organic fertilizers or into renewable fuels. But they are also open to all other ideas.

Working Model:

After partnering with selected startups, CPF Thailand will test solutions and co-develop a prototype or a POC before testing the solution at scale in a real environment to measure its business impact.

CPF Thailand is looking for a renewable energy solution for their farms and factories. The solution has to be able to generate or store enough energy to power the farm and factory for 24 hours a day with a sound financial feasibility. This aligns with the group’s holding policy to help CP Group achieve carbon neutrality.

Objectives:

To identify a renewable energy solution to power their farms and factories.

CPF Thailand has identified the following potential solutions to their problem but is open to all other ideas.

• Installing a wind turbine to generate larger amounts of renewable energy
• Installing an energy storage system to store enough energy to power their farms and factories throughout the day.

Working Model:

After partnering with selected startups, CPF Thailand will test solutions and co-develop a prototype or a POC before testing the solution at scale in a real environment to measure its business impact.

Objectives:

To identify opportunities within the global availability of more than 1 billion tonnes of agrifood by-products (such as husks, hulls, bran, germ, etc) being under-valorised in terms of nutrients or components and going to waste.

Working Model:

Bühler group has identified three key opportunity areas

• Component extract
  • By using a process or technology that can extract valuable components from by-products of agro-industrial food processes
• Direct nutrient recovery
  • Upcycling the micro and macronutrients from by-products through an applied process or technology into new food products such as alternative meat/dairy, savoury/sweet snacks or others
• Energy or heat recovery
  • Novel processes which can efficiently recover the energy value of low-value byproducts