CLIMATE RESILIENT. NUTRIENT-RICH. NET-ZERO.
Arborea captures and converts carbon dioxide into net-zero protein and other highly functional ingredients without needing fertile land enabling sustainable innovation across food, feed, petcare, cosmetics and agriculture.
Our Biosolar Leaf™ ‘breathing cultivation’ system uses CO2 and natural sunlight as the feedstocks to grow nutrient-rich microalgae biomass emitting pure oxygen as the only by-product.
The Biosolar Leaf™ doesn’t rely on fertile land or agricultural feedstocks. We can produce high-value ingredients at scale almost anywhere – on rooftops, arid land, or co-located with existing infrastructures.
The technology is modular, easily scalable, climate-resilient and can produce nutritious ingredients anywhere in the world.
SUSTAINABLE & SCALABLE PRODUCTION
Arborea’s Biosolar Leaf™ technology does not need pressurised gases, expensive glass photobioreactors, open ponds exposed to cross contamination, indoor systems or special energy sources. Yet, it is a contained, external and completely micro-environment controlled system powered by just sunlight and CO₂. This allows the cultivation of multiple nutrient-rich ingredients on non-fertile land with no deforestation, no loss of biodiversity and minimal fresh water.
This enabling technology helps the world’s increasing demand for food, without increasing emissions or land use providing food security for any country regardless of resources.
HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL & NUTRITIOUS INGREDIENTS
Thanks to our net-zero, closed-system technology, we can develop the highly functional ingredients that manufacturers (and their customers) can trust, delivering pure, safe, and great-tasting ingredients.
Helping you make healthy and sustainable food the preferred choice.
THE LEAP FORWARD IN SUSTAINABLE PROTEIN PRODUCTION
“The Start-up trying
to save the world”
“A mission that has won high
praise to Arborea”
“Arborea has engineered and patented techniques for solving cultivation problems”
THE CHALLENGE OF BALANCING FOOD PRODUCTION WITH BIODIVERSITY
The ever increasing demand for fertile land has often been at the expense of natural ecosystems, accelerating biodiversity loss.
In addition to the amount of land already dedicated to food production globally, we would need to convert an additional area of agricultural land, equivalent to the size of Africa, to feed the predicted world population by 2050.
HOW ARBOREA IS BREAKING THE CYCLE
With Arborea’s Biosolar Leaf™ cultivation system, we would only need an area of non-fertile land equivalent to the size of the New York Metropolitan Area to meet future needs with a harvest every single day of the year.
Our system’s ability to produce more protein in a given area than any other type of food production, combined with the fact that it doesn’t require agricultural land use, means we will enable mass food production that is resilient to climate change.
We’re already partnering with major industry players to help them break the vicious cycle between rising food demand and biodiversity loss.
OUR TECH BIOSOLARLEAF™
CULTIVATION SYSTEM
Biosolar Leaf™ is Arborea’s breakthrough cultivation platform that allows us to grow microscopic plants in the cleanest and most natural way.
Inspired by nature’s original food engine, photosynthesis, our system mimics the way microscopic plants have fuelled life on Earth for billions of years.
Just like photosynthesis in nature, Biosolar Leaf™ sequesters CO2 and uses sunlight as an unlimited feedstock. This boosts the cultivation of microscopic plants while releasing breathable oxygen, producing carbon negative plant biomass from which we extract high-quality proteins, natural colours, bioactive nutrients and many other ingredients.
CLIMATE RESILIENT
No fertile land or agricultural feedstocks needed. A soil-free system that can be sited on any surface, even barren land and rooftops. In fact the bioactive ingredients produced from Arborea’s process can also help soil, seed and plant health to make existing global crops more climate resilient.
HYPERLAND-EFFICIENT
A cost-effective way to produce more protein and other highly functional ingredients in a given area than any other type of food production. We are harvesting every day and not once a year
NATURAL & CLEAN
Uses the natural process of industrial photosynthesis in a closed loop system to create healthy, pure and nutritious multifunctional ingredients.
Micro + plants = superfood
Microscopic plants, such as microalgae, blue-green algae, and diatoms, play a vital role in nature’s food chain. They have been providing nutrition to trillions of animals for over three billion years.
Over 50,000 species of microscopic plants have been discovered, producing 5,000 known bioactive compounds and functional proteins.
With scientists estimating there are around 500,000 species yet to be discovered, microscopic plants offer unlimited potential to produce the diverse range of natural, nutritious, clean-label ingredients needed to ensure that everyone can eat well.
Arborea’s Biosolar Leaf™ is a carbon-neutral and soil-free way to boost the cultivation of these microscopic plants and harness the power of nature’s superfood. The process is so versatile that any photosynthetic microalgae can be made with the same process equipment.
LET’S WORK TOGETHER
We’re working with major industry players who are collaborating with us to:
- Create new sustainable, nutritious, tasty and functional products
- Establish climate-resilient ingredient supply chains
- Break the vicious cycle between rising food demand and biodiversity loss.
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