Under the FLAIR project, led by TU Hamburg, we are retrofitting an existing 10 m³ fermentation tank at Popp Feinkost’s production site and running it on their existing infrastructure. Hydrolysate produced there comes to EveryCarbon’s Stuttgart pilot facility, where we convert it into ECOne™.
Not a new plant, but existing industrial infrastructure, running a production process it wasn’t originally built for.
That’s the part worth paying attention to. Europe’s constraint on scaling materials production isn’t ideas, it’s capital equipment and time. Retrofitting infrastructure that already exists is faster and cheaper than building it.
With Hamburg University of Technology -Institute of Technical Microbiology, Universität Hamburg- Institute for Technical and Macromolecuar Chemistry, Fraunhofer IPA and Popp Feinkost GmbH.
Thank you to Cate Lawrence from Tech.eu and all who covered the news: https://tech.eu/2026/09/15/everycarbon-wins-flair-subcontract-to-scale-fossil-independent-materials-production/