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Joining forces with Integumen for sales of Omega 3 and bioplastics

Today, Cellulac announces that it has signed Heads of Terms to enter into a commercial technology agreement with Integumen (LSE: SKIN). In addition, Integumen has conditionally agreed to acquire 9.35% of the issued shares of Cellulac. Gerard Brandon and Camillus Glover, Chief Executive Officer and Chief of Operations of Cellulac respectively, will join the Board of Integumen and take up management in parallel roles to those held in Cellulac.

Gerard Brandon (Chairman & CEO of Cellulac) commented:

“Cellulac has novel technology and IP with commercial traction. The marriage of this technology and Integumen’s consumer presence online and in other retailers will create a supply source to customer supply chain of natural oils and biodegradable plastic ingredients to a number of sectors.

The environmental impact of single-use plastics is well documented and increasing awareness of the harm it is causing to our planet has driven governments, companies, and individuals to abandon the use of these materials and seek alternative solutions. We believe we are strongly placed to provide an effective and more eco-friendly solution.”

Tony Richardson (Chairman of Integumen) commented:

“The Board acknowledges the challenges Integumen has faced in generating returns for shareholders. We have been working hard to identify the best route forward and we believe acquiring a stake in Cellulac presents a number of opportunities to accelerate revenue generation. The economic and environmental drivers of biodegradable plastics are compelling driven by the global attitudinal shift against single-use plastics, creating strong potential demand for Cellulac’s products. We believe the actions we are taking will position us well for the future.

The wealth of experience and expertise that Gerard Brandon and Camillus Glover bring to their respective new roles of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operations Officer at Integumen, I believe, will see accelerated growth across the business.”

Full details of the announcement can be seen on the London Stock Exchange website here

Integumen License Ageement

Integumen License Ageement

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Is Much More Than a Drop in the Ocean

 

To many people watching Sky News and their #OceanFree Campaign, you would think that removing plastic from the oceans will be enough to resolve the problem. Sadly, this is not the case.

 

The oceans ability to provide food from fisheries and aquaculture is subject to climate change and the resultant ocean acid and oxygen levels. Rising CO2 is just one issue. Rising temperatures and reduced oxygen levels are issues altering the ocean ecosystems. These have a serious impact on marine life.

 

The effect is both regional and global. They include the displacement of fish stocks that were in abundance not long ago. The life expectancy of shellfish, affected by rising acid levels, who are unable to adapt or migrate, has reached a point where they are no longer available in many regions that previously relied upon them for a living.

 

Even fish stocks who have been able to migrate are subject to accelerated overfishing, loss of habitat and increasing pollution. There are now instances where there is an increase in dead zones in the ocean. These are exacerbated by an increase in toxic algal blooms.

 

I have watched documentaries where individual groups are trying to slow the declining coral reef ecosystems. It seems a futile to attempt to rebuild the damage caused by coral bleaching, causing the total collapse of coastal fishing. Even replacement with fish farming (aquaculture) is likely to be affected by an increase in tropical storms and flooding.

 

What can we do?

 

Even if we stop throwing plastic waste into the ocean today, the gyres in the oceans will continue to accumulate more plastic over the next 20 years. The damage has already been done. We can reduce the stresses, but not eliminate them, by lowering ocean pollution. in 2014 we produced 311 millions tonnes of plastic. This is expected to double by 2030. I fear that COP23 in Bonn was nothing more than a talking shop, kicking the pollution can down the road. The lead has to come from the consumer of fish and single-use plastic.

 

There is small option to consider changing fish catching pressure, or the rotation of fishing regions. We can target or lower demand with taxation on certain species. It does require some dynamic management with discretion. Legislation will not resolve the matter.

 

Further support for aquaculture may help, but that may only resolve the short-term supply side. There is the inevitable risk of political infighting as fish stocks migrate. There may even be fish wars.

 

A far more deadly killer remains. The acid and oxygen levels of the oceans has already done so much damage and there is not much we can do at this point. But can you seriously risk ignoring the problem and hope it will go away?

 

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If you want to solve plastic ocean pollution reduce CO2 and reduce over-fishing only a Revolution will achieve it

 

It’s just not your fault

 

What if I were to tell you that it is not your fault that the seas are polluted with plastic that the fish and whales are consuming? In the same way, I can say that it is not your fault that over-fishing is destroying future fish stocks. It is absolutely not your fault that climate-change is reeking havoc on the low-lying seashores affected by monster storms. That over-whelming burden is far too much responsibility to bear on a single individual.

 

Why did this happen?

 

No one saw it coming.

 

Because, as a society, we are only guilty of not being psychic.

 

A member of my family a few weeks ago was going through a crisis. I could have said “Don’t worry. It will all work out“. The crisis was already out of control and was not brought on by anything that person did. It was a situation that could have happened to anyone, at any time. It could have been avoided…

 

…if that person was psychic.

 

It would have been easy to comment on how they should feel, or say “Don’t be afraid“. Instead, I told that person that she was not alone. We walked through the crisis together. From the 2016 movie “Finding Dory

 

When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming.” — Dory

 

3 Secrets you already know about Industry.

 

  • Secret #1: Industry, all by itself, are not able to and will not stop producing 300 millions tonnes of plastic every year.
  • Secret #2: Industry, all by itself, are not able to and won’t stop overfishing and destroying the oceans for Omega 3 oil production; and,
  • Secret #3: Industry, all by itself, are not able to and can’t reduce CO2 or greenhouse gas emissions increasing all by themselves.

 

Biomassive Revolution

 

Only a Revolution from the Biological Masses is going to make a difference. Just like in 1989 when the Berlin wall came down. It did so with individuals bare hands, working together. There were no cranes or bulldozers. Of course, once it started, the industrial complex got behind it. But initially, it was done by the people.

 

This company is part of the industrial complex. Just like every other producer, we contribute greenhouse gases and CO2. Our equipment is installed in many companies across many industrial sectors. So while we play a role in climate change, as CEO I am saying that we can and will also play our role in the solution. There is a realization, that in order to reduce plastic in the oceans and replace it with biodegradable substitutes, the industrial complex has to step up to the plate. Industry too can replace oils that are currently extracted from fish, and make it from sustainable biomass.

 

One by one we must tear down the high wall of resistance until there is a crowd, then a tribe and eventually a revolutionary wave that will make a difference. Industry alone, will not be found wanting, but they will not lead the way.

 

To begin, join the Facebook Page of the Biomassive Revolution. Call out the polluters. Highlight the positive solutions and resolve that it is not just enough to make a change alone, but to make a difference, together.

 

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Another 300 million tonnes of plastic every year

Since World War II we have consumed 5 billion tonnes of plastic, much of which has ended up in a landfill or the oceans.

Making ourselves healthier by depleting global fish stocks.

In 2015, a consensus of expert opinion suggested that a recommended minimum daily dose of 500mg the Omega 3 oil requirement for the world population was 1.3 million metric tonnes. The world fish catch is not elastic and we are already at a plateau. Thankfully we are still producing much less than that each year, but demand continues to grow, while fish stocks continue to be depleted.

 

Daring to think big enough to have an effect

 

In 2009 Patrick Walsh was a Professor at the National University of Galway, Ireland, had a vision of reducing the amount of energy in the production of biodegradable plastic. This biodegradable plastic ingredient is lactic acid. Used as a food preservative, curing agent, and flavoring agent. It is also an ingredient in processed foods and is used as a decontaminant during meat processing.

 

When broken down from poly-lactic acid, the lactic acid derived bio-plastic ingredient converts back to CO2 and water.

 

Humble, or destitute beginnings

 

By 2012 this small company, now named Cellulac, was €300,000 in debt but had secured €2.8m of EU grants for a pilot plant, with the conditions for the release of the grant be, that industry and investors had to contribute a further €9m.

 

New management was brought in. Even with the vision and the size of EU grant, finding €9 million for a pilot plant, that was never going to break-even, let alone be profitable, was equally never going to be built.

 

The team, which came from a previously successful company, Alltracel Pharmaceuticals, altered the direction and mission to address the glaring lack of infrastructure needed to commercialize the technology.

 

  • 25% of the solution, the Bacteria, was in place. Bacteria are easier to explain if I use the term Gremlins. Remember the movies from 1984 and 1990? If you spilled water on them, they multiplied. Just like Gremlins, Lactic Acid and Micro-algae multiply in water. They are incidentally, produced in separate tanks.
  • 25% was an industrial scale engineering solution. There was a need to punch the living daylights out of the Gremlin-like bacteria and micro-algae to begin the release of oils and bio-plastic ingredients into a soup-like mixture.
  • 25% was a low-cost recovery method. Enzymes are like the 80’s video game of Pac-Man. They consume the ghosts of the Gremlins shell to release the oils and lactic acid.
  • The last 25% was a requirement for a production facility that would deliver commercial scale production of the bio-plastic ingredient and Omega-3 oils.

 

Pulling the pieces together

 

In July of 2013, Cellulac reached the 50% milestone when it acquired the SoniqueFlo technology from Pursuit Dynamics (PDX).

 

If you know the history of PDX, you are probably thinking, why buy the failed PDX. Right? They had blown through £68 million GBP.

 

Well, for Cellulac, this was the equivalent of being handed the engineering equivalent of Pfizers side-effect for their heart treatment, turned erectile dysfunctional drug, Viagra.

 

SoniqueFlo was designed as an efficient heater that softened up grains before food, ethanol and beer production. The same technology worked 10 times better at smashing up softer cells on the recovery, or end, stage of oil and bio-plastic ingredient production.

 

It was like having millions of mini-Conor McGregors compressed into each SoniqueFlo reactor punching the oils and bio-plastic ingredient out of the Gremlin Bacteria and Micro-algae, preparing them for the final stage.

 

The beauty of this industrial scale solution is that it was already operationally successful in 25 production facilities across the food, bio-fuel and alcohol industries since 2010.

 

Later in 2013, Cellulac reached the 75% milestone when it secured access to the 2nd largest brewery in Ireland. This had the output equal to 100 times the size of the original pilot plant that had been the subject of the EU Grant in 2012. It was the former Diageo, Harp Lager production plant in Dundalk, Ireland. A state-of-the-art facility, fully automated, food and beverage grade facility.

 

The 100% milestone was reached faster than expected in 2015, with the acquisition of Aer-Bio. This was a small Enzyme expression protocol company. They specialized in the recovery of oils from micro-algae and production of Omega-3 using Enzymes (these are Pac-Man-like proteins that consume the outer layers of cells which have oil inside).

 

Cellulac had worked with Aer-Bio on a combination of SoniqueFlo and Enzymes since early 2014 to deliver a solvent-free production process for Omega-3 oils.

 

Proven Commercial Scale Production

 

In 2016, at a UK industry partner site, the conversion from a conventional solvent-based process to a solvent-free process was responsible for an 81% reduction of the downstream recovery cost of Omega-3 oils.

 

The outcome is a commercial scale solvent-free production process with sales of Omega-3 to one of the largest food ingredient companies in the world.

 

By 2017, Cellulac has achieved 3 out of these 4 stages:

 

  • Laboratory
  • Third-party pilot facility in Potsdam, DE. 1 x 1,000 litre vessel
  • Industry Partner commercial scale in Liverpool, UK. 6-Tonne per batch from one 80,000 litre vessel.
  • Cellulac production site, Dundalk, IE. 10 x 100,000 litre vessels and 10 x 400,000 litre vessels.There is a lot more going on and you can expect some major news before the end of this year.

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