BIO-BASED ECONOMY
Fruit concentrates from fruit waste for the food and feed industries
Market
| Final Products | Concentrates, syrups, dips and residue |
| Required Inputs | fruit waste |
| Competing Products |
Low competition |
| Potential for Export | Medium |
Process
| Complexity – Type of Process | Medium – thermal processes |
| Technology | Extraction, filtration and concentration |
| Equipment and Material | Extractor, filters and boilers |
| Human Resources | Skilled technicians, operators, quality control and food safety specialists |
Business Linkage
| Forward Linkage | Homes, local supermarkets, bakeries and food industry |
| Local/Regional/Nationwide | Local Market - nationwide |
| Backward Linkage | Farmers |
| Supporting Entities | Waste contractors, equipment suppliers, testing facilities, food safety specialists and marketing companies |
| Competitive Edge |
Could be lower cost and more tailored to market needs (sizes, flavors etc.) since produced locally, higher nutritional value compared to other syrups |
Economic Features
| Revenue Stream | Sale of concentrates/syrups/dips and residue as animal feed |
| CAPEX | 63.2M EGP Note: This CAPEX represents the indicative investment size, however, this investment opportunity can grow in implementation to a larger sized investments. |
| Investment Size | Large (between 50-500M EGP) |
Considerations
| Key Challenge | Possible competition with suppliers over the same feedstock, product specification and standardization, absence of marketing services |
| Advantages | Healthy replacement for other types of syrup |
| Potential Pathways to Growth | Value-added substrates to produce fermentation products – the end-products themselves and bioactive compounds – other products from by-products include fruit pastes, pits and pressed cakes (could be feedstock for animal feed), and jams/spreads |
General Impact
| Environmental | Eco-friendly use of second grade fruits and processing material close to the field reduces emissions in transportation |
| Social | Increases return on agriculture activities |
Impact on Sub-market(s), Cluster(s) and Value Chain(s)
| Relevant sub-market | Intermediary to industries (food, pharmaceutical, wood and paper) |
| Lies within the following value chain/cluster(s) |
Fruits, food processing and packaging |
| Impact | Promotes value-addition to fruits in production value chains |
Studies
| Serial | File name | Download |
| 1 | UNIDO IGGE_VC Cluster Competitiveness & BOM |
