In nature, insects play an important role at the end of a material cycle. Many insect species live on fallen leave litter, rotting plant material, dung heaps left behind by roaming herbivores, or other detritus.
Quite often, the same insects end up as the beginning of a new material cycle, when they are devoured by amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals and (in many parts of the world) even humans.
At the Insect Technology Group, we’ve translated this natural circle of life into the industrial concept of “insect bioconversion”: we use insects to bio-convert waste streams into raw materials.
The insect biomass is full of valuable proteins, lipids and chitin, that can make livestock feed and the chemical industry more sustainable.
