If Your new process produces several co-products, Be ready to face some Specific business challenges

Producers of basic goods upstream in a supply chain often generate by-products. Once considered waste, these by-products have generally found new uses. However, their economic value remains marginal.

The triple necessity of decarbonisation, circular economy, and tackling the scarcity of some raw materials has led to a new generation of innovative industrial processes: pyrolysis, plasmalysis, catalytic induction, enzymatic depolymerisation, fermentation, supercritical CO₂ extraction, green chemistry,  etc. All these processes transform low-value inputs into two or more high-quality, ready-to-use products.

It’s fantastic!

Yet, success is not guaranteed.

The adoption of these new breed of industrial upcycling processes faces specific business challenges at the commercial, operational, and strategic levels.

This article elaborates on these challenges, and explains why they are not out of reach. Even more, overcoming them paves the way for competitive advantages.

How to achieve this? By setting a high level of requirement from the outset in terms of process performance, business model design, and corporate culture.

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