We are working purposefully to make our production more sustainable by fully utilizing all resources. The side streams are no longer just a byproduct but an important part of our business model and a strategic focus area. Our goal is to create value for both our customers and the environment while contributing to a circular economy.
Food Upcycling
From waste to possibility
You have landed on the website for the Food Upcycling project – a project that helps companies convert underutilised side streams from food production into valuable products. The goal is to reduce food waste, lessen environmental and climate impact, and strengthen the competitiveness of Danish food producers and related industries such as process, technology suppliers, and transporters.
The project runs from 2025 to 2027 and during this period assesses the business potential for upcycling side streams in collaboration with over 200 Danish and international companies. Approximately 40 companies will receive tailored development programs focusing on process development, safety, and shelf life.
Food Upcycling helps companies create profit from side streams through
workshops that help companies get started
collaborative projects across value chains for the utilisation of side streams
a digital mapping tool that guides companies in utilising side streams
matchmaking with Danish and international companies
a knowledge resource with legislation, tools, and guidance for the safe and profitable utilisation of side streams
Join Food Upcycling
Are you a food producer with an unused or underutilised side stream? At Food Upcycling, we offer tools, workshop activities, and development programs that help you and your partners create new valuable products from your side stream.
Are you a producer seeking resources or products that come from one or more food side streams? Food Upcycling can help you establish cooperation with suppliers of such products/resources, in addition to assisting in optimising the resource for the desired application.
Are you a provider of solutions for processing, storage, packaging, or transport of side streams? Through Food Upcycling, you can engage in dialogue with companies that are trying to create new value from side stream resources and therefore need solutions that your company can offer.
As a supplier of solutions, you can connect with potential customers by participating in Food Upcycling’s workshops and by contributing to development programs on specific side streams. You can also promote your solutions via the European platform Foodleap and thus gain access to a larger network of potential partners.
At Food Upcycling, we are also interested in collaborating with existing projects or partnerships that are working to utilise specific side streams. With the competencies gathered in Food Upcycling, we will be able to add value to most side stream activities, whether it concerns a technical problem, a need for scaling, or a competency missing in the partnership.
Be inspired
”We expect that, through this initiative, we will see a significant boost in competitiveness among companies in the Danish food industry. If companies learn to utilize their side streams better and convert them into new products, they reduce production costs and create new sources of income. It may sound simple, but the reality is that it is often a complicated process that companies need help with. That assistance is now provided through this initiative.”
Thomas Hofman-Bang
CEO of the Danish Industry Foundation (Industriens Fond)
It is essential to consider the utilization rate of our raw materials and the value it helps create for both the company and Greenland. By-products that are naturally generated in our production are untapped value streams. It does not make sense to sail out and dispose of these streams in the sea. Instead, they should be used to produce high-value products, such as cod liver oil.
Kristian Ottesen, direktør
Royal GreenlandWith BANANA CPH, we strive to utilize the resources we already have in the best possible way. Our goal is to combat food waste by giving discarded bananas new life—and at the same time demonstrate that quality and sustainability can go hand in hand.
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