Enzyme discovery and engineering company, Allozymes, signed a partnership with Adisseo to develop groundbreaking bioprocesses for animal feed ingredient production. This collaboration marks a significant step towards a more sustainable future for the animal feed industry. It is also one of its first European partnerships since Allozymes expanded into the region earlier this year.
In this partnership, Allozymes will design and optimize enzymes specifically tailored to Adisseo's production needs and goals of becoming global frontrunners. The partnership will start by developing a novel environmentally friendly process for methionine. Methionine is an essential amino acid crucial for animal health, growth, and performance. However, traditional methods of methionine production rely on chemical processes with a significant environmental footprint.
Allozymes' cutting-edge technology leverages specially engineered enzymes to create more efficient and environmentally friendly manufacturing processes. Unlike traditional methods that rely on much slower protein engineering, Allozymes uses its proprietary microfluidics platform to develop custom enzymes with greater functionality in a fraction of the time. This innovative system designs, screens, and optimizes millions of enzyme candidates simultaneously, allowing a simple way to select the one with superior functionality.
"Our microfluidics platform allows us to quickly analyze and optimize millions of enzyme variations concurrently. This agility is crucial for developing customized enzymes that meet the specific needs of our partners, like Adisseo, in a faster and more efficient way," said Akbar Vahidi, CTO of Allozymes.
"Our partnership with Adisseo is particularly exciting as it coincides with our recent expansion into Europe," said Peyman Salehian, CEO of Allozymes. "By collaborating with a global leader in the feed additives sector, we can directly address the global market's need for bio solutions in animal feed production. Our innovative enzymatic platform, combined with Adisseo's expertise, has the potential to create a significant positive impact at a much faster rate."
"The partnership with Allozymes represents a major step forward in our ongoing commitment to sustainable practices," said Jean-François Rous, executive VP Innovation at Adisseo. "Allozymes' innovative microfluidics technology holds immense potential to transform our productions, allowing us to meet the growing demand for animal nutrition while minimizing our environmental footprint."
This new collaboration builds on the first successful one which was aimed to improve one key enzyme of a synthetic metabolic pathway developed by Adisseo. By leveraging Allozymes' microfluidics platform, which screened millions more variants, Allozymes identified an enzyme that met the success criteria in just a few months—surpassing the project's original timeline.
The new collaboration between Allozymes and Adisseo has the potential to revolutionize the animal feed ingredient production landscape. Bioprocesses offer a cleaner, more efficient alternative to traditional methods, paving the way for a more sustainable future for animal agriculture.
