Our biosolutions are at work throughout the food value chain, enhancing soil health and producing livestock, crops, dairy, and other food products more efficiently. They also improve shelf life to prevent food waste, and help to produce healthier food.
Our handprint
A biosolution-powered sustainability transition
We’re uniquely placed to help enable a shift from a paradigm that is wasteful, unhealthy and polluting to one that's healthier for us and our planet. That’s our handprint.
Our biggest impact is enabling our customers
Our commitment to innovation goes beyond providing biosolutions. We collaborate closely with our customers to understand their challenges and innovate to help them achieve their sustainability targets.
Supporting customers in their sustainability journey means finding the biosolution that best fits their needs. As well as seeing the commercial value through lower costs or higher sales, they will also discover the tangible positive impact on their environmental goals and the health profile of their products.
We take a data-driven approach
to prove it
We quantify the impact...
We have a team of environmental specialists who can quantify the positive impact of our biosolutions to help you determine the best solution for you.
...and document the footprint
For the products we produce for you, we document our own footprint as well.
Explore our library of sustainability studies
We conduct sustainability studies to compare the environmental and societal benefits of using biosolutions compared to conventional technologies, which are often fossil-based or synthetic.
The studies are data-driven and science-based. We leverage our decades of expertise within the field of environmental science and life cycle assessment.
Often conducted in collaboration with customers, these studies leverage application data to highlight measurable environmental and societal benefits. They empower customers to clearly articulate the proven sustainability benefits of their products, processes, or services.
Our biosolutions help meet UN Sustainable Development goals
To document the positive impact of our portfolio on the world, we assess how our biosolutions contribute positively to the six UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are most relevant to us. Every year, we assess the share of our sales and projects in innovation pipeline that aligns to at least one of the six SDGs.
>80%
of our sales and biosolutions in our innovation pipeline were aligned* with at least one of the six selected SDGs in 2025
Our products align to six SDGs
Zero hunger
Our biosolutions boost productivity, enhance food nutrition (e.g., more protein or fiber), and reduce harmful ingredients like sugar, salt, and fat. They cut food waste by extending shelf life, improve livestock welfare to lower health risks, and enable climate-friendly food products, replacing carbon-intensive ingredients.
Good health and well-being
Our biosolutions reduce exposure to hazardous chemicals and support immunity and gut health through food and supplements. They ensure safer food by eliminating contaminants, harmful bacteria, and chemicals. Additionally, they lower the release of artificial substances to air, water, and soil creating a safer environment for people.
Clean water and sanitation
Our biosolutions replace harmful chemicals in product formulations and production processes, preventing their release into water to reduce pollution and protect ecosystems and human health. Through efficiency gains and other functionalities, biosolutions also enable reduced water consumption during production and use.
Affordable and clean energy
Our biosolutions help reduce the global dependency and use of fossil fuels by enabling production of biofuels as a low-carbon alternative. Additionally, our biosolutions have the potential to lower energy consumption by decreasing the need for heat, electricity, or other energy inputs during production and use.
Responsible consumption and production
Our biosolutions replace harmful chemicals in product formulations and processes, preventing their release into environment. They enable industrial and agricultural productivity and waste reduction through minimized production losses and enabling recycling, and the use of upcycled streams.
Climate action
Our biosolutions help lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at production, raw material, and consumer levels, while some enable the capture of GHG emissions. They also help reduce the global dependency and use of fossil fuels by enabling production of biofuels as a low-carbon alternative.
Transform food systems
Nourishing a growing world
Nourishing a growing world
Our biosolutions' impact on food production
Our biosolutions enable higher yields from fewer resources across fields and factories. Using our biosolutions, producers can achieve better results in brewing, baking, dairy, yogurt and cheese production while farmers can increase crop yields.
≤1%
higher yield for cheese producers with the same amount of milk
Some of our products in action
Novonesis' FreshQ®
Novonesis’ FreshQ® and the strains it comprises protect dairy products from spoilage caused by undesirable yeast and mold. This helps keep them fresh longer. Through extended shelf life (by 7 days and beyond), FreshQ® aids in reducing food waste across the value chain. By preventing food waste, it contributes to creating a more sustainable food future.
Novonesis' Vertera®
Consumers' demands for nutritional plant-based foods with a short and simple ingredients list are growing. Our Vertera® range of products improves the texture, appearance or flavor of plant-based products, while at the same time enabling the removal of synthetic ingredients, resulting in a simpler label.
Novonesis' Neer™
You can use Novonesis’ Neer™ to produce non-alcoholic versions of nearly any beer style. Compared to traditional alcohol-free beer production, it reduces fermentation time by up to 80% per batch and saves water and other resources like malt.
Mitigate climate impactTurning climate risk
Turning climate risk
into opportunity
Turning climate risk
into opportunity
We pioneer biosolutions that enable GHG emission reductions across multiple industries. Our biosolutions provide alternatives to energy-intensive processes and products, further enabling our customers to achieve their own climate goals. They reduce the global dependency and use of fossil fuels for transport and as a feedstock, and enable carbon removal.
Our biosolutions' impact on global transportation
Our biosolutions for bioenergy increase ethanol yield and co-product production. They also contribute to the development of low-carbon fuels for the transport sector.
>60million
tons of CO2e saved in the global transportation sector by using biofuels produced with our biosolutions annually
Some of our products in action
Novonesis' Cellic®
Enables efficient ethanol production from agricultural residues like wheat straw, rice straw, and corn stover. Biofuels are vital for decarbonizing heavy transport. For example, using straw-based ethanol can lead to reduction of GHG emissions by 90% or more compared to gasoline.
Novonesis' Frontia® Prime
Is a unique enzyme that supercharges your corn separation. It allows you to increase your corn gluten meal and starch yield, while saving energy in the process.
Novonesis' Medley® Blend
Enzyme technologies enable low-temperature laundry washing, reducing electricity use and greenhouse gas emissions. They can also replace fossil-based surfactants, enabling low carbon detergent formulations which are more easily biodegradable in water.
Protect nature and biodiversityBetter for nature,
Better for nature,
better for us
Better for nature,
better for us
Our biosolutions help farmers build healthier soils while keeping yields high from existing farmland. Our enzyme technologies enable household cleaning with fewer chemicals, while improving wastewater quality. These approaches contribute to more environmentally friendly use of land and healthier aquatic systems.
Our biosolutions' impact on nature
Our biosolutions for laundry, dishwashing and cleaning reach more than half of the world’s population. They ensure strong cleaning performance, while reducing the use of energy and chemicals.
≤30%
less surfactants (chemicals) in a standard detergent using our biosolutions, without affecting washing performance
Get to know a few more of our products
Novonesis' JumpStart®
Contains a fungus naturally found in soil that improves phosphorus uptake in crops like corn, soy, wheat, and canola. It enhances early vigor, stress tolerance, and yields while reducing washout of nitrogen to aquatic ecosystems and lowering emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas.
Novonesis' ProAct 360™
Protein is vital for livestock, but undigested protein in feed causes ammonia (NH3), nitrate (NO3), and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions via manure. Feed proteases like ProAct 360™ enhance protein digestibility. If protease was used widely in poultry production, its use could cut NH3 emissions by 3-4%, saving 130,000 tons of NH3 globally each year.
Novonesis' Medley® Blend
Enzymes can replace some surfactants in detergents for effective stain removal. Our study estimates that if 50% of all washes in Latin America used enzyme-rich detergents with 30% fewer surfactants, it could save the planet from 50,000 tonnes of chemicals annually.
Enable healthier living
Small in size, big on quality
Small in size, big on quality
Biosolutions might be small but they can have a big impact on quality. Our biosolutions enhance nutritional value, improve product quality and support human health across life stages. Customers can leverage our solutions to optimize their processes and products to reduce sugars and synthetic ingredients, while increasing fiber and protein. Our biological approaches help create solutions (such as probiotics and protein ingredients) that meet evolving consumer preferences.
Our biosolutions' impact on women’s health
For example, one of our biosolutions for women’s health can reduce yeast overgrowth by up to 73% in the urogenital tract, providing relief from bacterial imbalances. It’s the world’s most documented probiotic for urogenital health.
≤73%
reduction in yeast overgrowth in the urogenital tract.
Get to know three more products
Novonesis' LGG® probiotic strain
The world’s most documented probiotic strain offers proven benefits across various life stages, including newborns, children, pregnant women, adults, and the elderly. Among other benefits it has been associated with supporting healthy immune, gastrointestinal, and respiratory functions.
Novonesis' MyOli™ 5 HMO Mix
Our five key HMOs match up to half of what's naturally found in breast milk. They help create formula that supports infant development in multiple ways - from gut health to brain development.
Novonesis' Sweety®
Inspired by nature's own process, Sweety® cuts sugar while keeping sweetness in dairy products. It converts lactose into glucose during fermentation. This naturally enhances sweetness in yogurt and enables the creation of delicious foods without added sugar or artificial sweeteners.
* Each product and innovation project is evaluated annually for its documented impact towards SDGs 2, 3, 6, 7, 12 and 13. Sales assessment uses mapped benefits and supporting evidence of SDG alignment. Innovation assessment is based on expected outcomes of projects.