The Consello da Xunta declares this project to be a priority company iniciative, with the goal of speeding up implementation procedures. The company “In Proteins for All” anticipates an economic investment of 16,9 million euros and direct employment for 25 people at the very least.

The company “In Proteins for All“, a startup born in 2022, plans to build a biotech installation in Curtis, for the extraction and transformation of vegetable protein. The initiative is oriented to providing the ingredients to the food industry and it will utilize legume seeds and flours as raw materials. The Consello da Xunta has declared this initiative as a priority, with the goal of speeding up procedures to set it up.

This project anticipates an economic investment of 16,9 million euros and direct employment of a minimum of 25 people, as announced by the Xunta today. The Administration indicates this industry will develop a hybrid production system, where it will combine dry extraction of 50% concentrated proteins parting from legume seeds and flours and a posterior wet process to transform these proteins into isolated, purified and functional proteins.

On top of that, they will boost a line of starch with diverse applications in the food industry, such as the obtention of bakery goods.

The Xunta has not declared the raw materials the installations will work with, however it is predicted it will be provided with imported vegetables, such as soy, or other legumes that can find entry trough the A Coruña port.

The promoter intents to, with this initiative, build the first integral installation for the production of vegetable proteins in Spain, to provide, globally, sustainable and high quality products and ingredients of vegetable origin to all of the food industry.

The Consello da Xunta points out that the promoters had already set in motion a biotech company on the US, which is why the Galician goverment trusts this initiative. One of the administrators of “In Proteins for All” is Ana Rosa Caamaño Vara, who is simultaneously an executive of Cleariver Ventures, a venture capital firm oriented towards investing in the vegetable proteins biotech sector.

Before this, in their career, Caamaño worked in one of the biggest international industries specialized in vegetable proteins, Kerry, an Irish firm born as a dairy cooperative that manages two business lines today: dairy and vegetable proteins.

It is conveniant to remember that InLeit already operates in Curtis, an industry oriented towards dairy protein extraction, which means setting “In Proteins for All” in motion will turn Teixeiro’s industrial complex into one of the main food proteins locations in Spain.

Facing the future, the vegetable proteins installation will be complimented with an innovation center, in order to optimize production processes and to boost innovative technologies for the foods and health industry, as the Xunta points out in the press release.

Original article: Curtis will house a vegetable protein extraction biotech installation – Campo Galego (28/09/2023).