Agriculture
Uplifting soil
This is centred on the industrial-scale production of Black Soldier Fly frass using food waste as a feedstock, enabling arable farmers to remediate depleted soil.
Field of Expertise
Black Soldier Fly Farming, bid writing, bid assessment, project monitoring and management, process engineering for the food industry.
Expertise
Black Soldier Fly Farming (BSF) - involved with a start-up looking to produce BSF product at an industrial scale, i.e. 6KT of BSF frass per year.
Bid writing, commercial and non-commercial bids i.e. public sector procurement, charity grants, R&D funding.
Bid assessment - assessment of technical R&D based bids (from topics ranging from plastic fire extinguishers to meat cell cultivation) for public funding, 80 - 100 per year, for projects up to £4M in spend, 4 years in length.
Project monitoring and management - looking after technically orientated projects, in food and non-food areas i.e. Next generation low calories sweeteners to Holographic memory tape development
Process engineering for the food industry, Scaling up development chef concepts to 2T/Hr production across a range of chilled, frozen and ambient stable products.