Biofactoría Naturae et Salus is a biotechnological company created in 2011 which extracts healthy ingredients and additives from fungi and vegetables in order to produce high value foodstuffs. The company has 12 employees and an operational manufacturing biofactory of cutting edge technology. One of the principal problems in food industry is food preservation. Most food products in the world add chemical preservatives into them (E-numbers). The presence of food preservatives of chemical origin, E-numbers, in food represents a worry for 66% of Europeans. There is international scientific research that concludes that chemical preservatives (E-numbers) can pose health-related problems and environmental problems. The objective of our project consists on industrially producing a worldwide novelty: a new and natural biopreservative, Naturhealth Food® able to substitute the chemical preservatives in food (E-numbers) in most foodstuffs with similar efficacy and a competitive price. This biopreservative will be harmless for people and environment. In Biofactoría Naturae et Salus S.A. we have achieved some milestones. Naturhealth Food® has already been successfully manufactured in our biofactory and tried in numerous foodstuffs without affecting their organoleptical properties. In order to prepare Phase 2 of this project, where the scaling-up of the process and the extension of our facilities will be carried out, we need to conduct a feasibility study of the project (Phase 1). This feasibility study will comprise four main activities: a technical study, a market analysis and customer discovery, an economic study and Intellectual property rights and legal issues. Our target market is the Food Industry in general. Given that this market is huge to begin with, Biofactoría Naturae et Salus proposes to focus on the high value foodstuffs market. Naturhealth Food® sales expectations will be of 35,000,000 € per year in 2022 with a net profit of 6,400,000€ during that year.

The digital and circular economy (CE) transition of bio-based industries is a critical objective for Europe’s climate ambitions and its economic competitiveness. Given the urgency of these demands, Europe’s bio-based industries need to leapfrog over past digital technologies and implementations, pioneering innovative solutions for creating bio-based products and services that are circular, as well as environmentally and socially sustainable. To realise these ambitions, the bi0SpaCE project will deliver a suite of technologies, services, guidance frameworks, and standards, combined into the open-access bi0S platform, for rapid deployment and scaling of (CE) solutions and services across bio-based industries and their value chains. bi0SpaCE will advance the creation and implementation of Industry 4.0 enhanced Digital Product Passports (DPPs), linked to an International Dataspace (IDS) compliant CE dataspace, enabling the creation of dynamic and decentralised DPPs for secure and trustworthy sharing of CE and sustainability performance data of bio-based products across the value chain, as well as providing transparency of green and CE claims to consumers. bi0SpaCE brings together a consortium consisting of 1 HEI, 4 RTOs, 1 SMEs, 1 industrial assoc., 2 large industries, and 1 startup, across 5 EU and 2 associated countries, over a 36-month project period. The knowledge and technologies created in bi0SpaCE will be demonstrated and validated across 4 complementary bio-based sectors: (i) paperboard production, (ii) eco-industrial parks with bio-based energy and products producers and consumers, (iii) plant-based products and cosmetics, and (iv) bio-derived industrial chemicals.