Unibio and its partner and licensee Protelux completed the construction of a plant in Russia producing alternative proteins from bacteria using methane as feedstock. The parties are currently testing the plant and expect to commission it by late 2018.

In May 2016 Unibio signed a license agreement with the intent to upscale and commercialize the Unibio U-loop technology in Russia allowing the conversion of methane into protein. Russia was chosen as an ideal site for such product as bacterial protein is historically known in the Russian market, as Russia has a well-developed compound feed industry, and there is access to an abundance of cheap natural gas.

The plant has a production capacity of approx 6,000 tpa producing Uniprotein^® among other things. Uniprotein^® holds 70% protein content and has been approved in the EY for use in all animal and fish feed. It is the first out of many plants to be constructed in the near future as the parties expect a rapid capacity increase to 100,000+ tpa. The plant has four huge 30 meters high U-Loop bio-reactors and the fermentation is reportedly a continuing process securing as little downtime as possible.

Unibio runs its research and pilot facilities at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and its demonstration-scale plant in Kalundborg, Denmark. The technology has been developed in close cooperation with DTU. The production plant in Kalundborg is co-financed by Innovation Fund Denmark, which sees great potential in industrial protein production.