NoMy co-founder David Andrew Quist (top right), NoMy chief science officer Dr Jorge Ferreira (top middle) and NoMy strategic advisor Miho Tanaka (bottom middle) with Nitten executives Kiyama Kuniki (top left), Uchino Hirokatsu (bottom right) and Tamura Masahiro (bottom left), © David Andrew Quist
Established in January 2024, NoMy Japan has already forged key strategic partnerships with leading companies to expand the reach of its fermentation technologies utilising food industry sidestreams.
These strategic partnerships involve a feasibility study with Hokuren, the largest farmer cooperative in Hokkaido, and a strategic alliance with the Nippon Beet Sugar Manufacturing Company (Nitten), with which NoMy Japan will explore the potential of its cutting-edge fermentation technologies to produce feeds for aquaculture.
“Our goal is to create a new industry utilising sugar beets, which have high carbon dioxide absorption capacity. NoMy's technology, which utilises the byproduct of the sugar manufacturing process to produce filamentous fungal protein as a food resource, has great potential to produce feed and food substitutes for animal protein. We believe that this technology will help to promote agriculture and solve food problems,” said Dr Shu Ishikuri, president of Nitten, in a press release.
In addition to these strategic partnerships, the company has announced the launch of its upcycling service, MycoPrime. The service combines the power of data science, fermentation technology and artificial intelligence to drive its upcycling services with food industry partners. With MycoPrime, NoMy Japan aims to help its partners find the optimal utilisation of sidestreams, minimising waste and CO2 emissions whilst maximising water recycling and producing high value, sustainable fungi-based products.
“Through the launch of MycoPrime and partnerships with Japanese companies, we foresee strong growth and impact for our solutions in Japan, and [hope to] become the premier service provider for upcycling food industry sidestreams in this important market,” concluded Ingrid Dynna, NoMy chief executive.
