CO-PRODUCTS 2025

Goal:
Co-products: Improve quality, performance, and increase utilization of co-products
 

1. Create new opportunities

• Expand the use of permeate (volume and value play) either as is or as a substrate/precursor to producing unique commodities for specialized dairy/food ingredients for health and wellness applications and/or industrial applications (e.g., polymers, personal care, specialty ingredients for household products).
• Identify and understand the technical gaps (e.g., crystal formation, browning, etc.) that prevent the use of lactose at higher concentrations in existing applications and devise cost effective scalable solutions to overcome those gaps.

2. Enhance capability

• Develop novel techniques and technologies to manufacture co-products (e.g., permeate, lactose) at a competitive cost.
• Develop novel, cost effective techniques to extract minerals from milk and whey permeate streams.
• Make high lactose powders (sweet whey, permeates etc.) more robust/resilient through their shelf life (maintain their sensory quality and performance) when exported (at tropical temperatures and humidity) using product and/or packaging solutions.