Sybimar Ltd

Sybimar Ltd was founded in 2005 and is based in Uusikaupunki, Finland. The company produces biofuels from food industry by-products and manufactures process equipment for producing biofuels. The company also develops and produces process equipment for food industry. Sybimar takes part in the Carbon Neutral Municipalities project which brings municipalities, businesses, citizens and experts together to create and carry out solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Sybimar's closed circulation concept

Sybimar has developed a bioenergy and food production solution based on closed circulation, where waste, waste heat, nutrients and carbon dioxide are used and recycled back to energy and food production. The pilot plant of the concept functions in Uusikaupunki, but the concept can be tailored to serve different needs in local conditions.

The basic idea behind the concept is to create sustainable and economically sound business without burdening the Environment. The concept includes a fishery, a greenhouse, a biogas plant, a generator as well as a biofuel plant. The fishery circulates waste water and is situated on dry land. The nutritious water from the fishery is guided to the greenhouse to fertilize growing vegetables.

The biogas plant recovers all gases formed by the waste in the landfill. Besides this, the organic side streams of the greenhouse and the fishery are directed there. The gas is utilized in Sybimar’s own generator to produce electricity and heat which are then used in the plants of the closed circulation concept.

In the exhaustless closed circulation concept energy is produced from waste and the fishery and the greenhouse are connected to each other. The greenhouse heats up, oxidizes and purifies water, whereas the nutrients from the fish farming fertilize growth. The digestate remains from the biogas plant are used for soil enrichment.