Clean ingredients for climate-friendly food

At Deep Branch, we use clean and renewable carbon and energy sources to create ingredients for a more sustainable food system. Our first product is Proton™, a single cell protein developed for the animal feed industry.

Clean ingredients for climate-friendly food

We're hiring in Geleen!

Our pilot facility at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus is a world first: we use hydrogen, carbon dioxide and oxygen as feedstocks for our gas fermentation process that creates clean and sustainable protein. This groundbreaking technology comes with unique R&D, engineering and operational challenges, and we’re looking for new team members that can work in an interdisciplinary way to solve them together!

Proton: a purer protein

Proton is Deep Branch’s single cell protein developed for the animal feed industry. Made from locally sourced ingredients, it has a bespoke nutritional profile produced from microbes grown on clean and sustainable carbon dioxide. Proton provides security, transparency and traceability and is 60% less carbon-intensive than conventional proteins. The commercialisation of Proton will tackle the climate emergency and reduce the food industry’s impact on biodiversity loss, as the protein-rich ingredient has no arable land requirements.

Proton™ for feed producers

Elevating the global food system to meet society’s needs sustainably

Proton™ is not just more environmentally friendly, but also provides a continuous supply of a price-stable, price-competitive, and nutritionally optimal macro ingredient. Proton™ offers a 60% saving on carbon footprint.

Drax making a significant contribution to UK efforts to build a zero carbon economy. Deep Branch is exploring the feasibility of using Drax’s CO₂ emissions to make proteins for sustainable animal feed

A global agri-food business and leading producer of monogastric feed. Formulation experts at AB Agri build nutritionally tailored feeds for broiler chickens using their extensive experience in novel feed production.

BioMar is involved in testing of the high potential raw material Proton™, focusing on sustainability, performance, digestibility and other parameters essential for fish health and growth.

Testimonials

We’ve established strong partnerships across the value chain, leveraging expertise and strengths as we deploy our technology to transform the global food system.

"By working with innovative tech companies like Deep Branch, we are exploring new opportunities for clean growth, which could be critical for not only beating the climate crisis, but also in enabling a just transition, protecting jobs across the North delivering for the economy and the environment."

"Being part of the REACT-FIRST consortium is an outstanding opportunity to produce feeds for our farmed fish and chicken, with 65-75 percent smaller carbon footprints than existing feeds, no requirements for arable land, minimal water usage, and so we build more resilience into our supply chains for animal feed. REACT-FIRST should help the aquaculture and poultry feed industries move towards self-sufficiency from a dietary protein perspective, and reduce the instability of animal feed prices experienced by farmers."

"Aquaculture is expected to double production by 2050 however to achieve this we need feeds with minimal environmental impact. The REACT-FIRST project is the first step towards the commercial development of a new potentially game-changing protein source, Proton™; using new technology to capture waste CO₂ and creating high-value sustainable protein suitable for the aquaculture industry."

"REACT-FIRST provides a way of doing exactly this: by growing single-cell protein using CO₂ emissions from industry, it creates a new, scalable and circular protein, which is the opportunity to help feed manufacturers and farmers and improve animal nutrition and wellbeing via a high-quality ingredient that is consistent and can easily be traced back to its origins."