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🧬 Sectors We Serve in Biotech, Food-Tech & Sustainable Innovation

At Sustech Innovation, we apply Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA) and process scale-up expertise across the entire bio-based economy.

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From precision fermentation to bioplastics and CO₂ conversion, we help startups, investors, and engineering teams understand the real economics of scaling new technologies — before committing major capital.

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Our mission is simple: make sure every promising process is also economically viable and investment-ready.​​​

🧪 Food-Tech & Alternative Proteins

We support companies developing cell-based, plant-based, and fermentation-derived proteins. TEA helps evaluate production cost per kilogram, ingredient pricing, and scale-up feasibility — enabling teams to optimize feedstocks, yields, and fermentation strategies early.

 

Typical applications:

  • Precision-fermented dairy and egg proteins

  • Mycoprotein, fungal, and bacterial biomass

  • Flavor and fat compounds for hybrid meats

🌱 Bioplastics & Bio-Based Materials

For startups producing biopolymers, coatings, and packaging materials, a TEA reveals whether the process can compete with petrochemical equivalents.

We model CAPEX/OPEX, feedstock costs, and process intensification options to benchmark commercial competitiveness.

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Applications include:

  • PHA, PLA, and cellulose-based polymers

  • Bio-resins and natural adhesives

  • Recyclable or compostable materials

⚗️ Sustainable Chemicals & Ingredients

We analyze processes converting renewable feedstocks into high-value organic acids, solvents, and active compounds.


TEA identifies the break-even production scale, raw material cost sensitivity, and potential by-product valorization.

 

Focus areas:

  • Organic acids (lactic, succinic, citric)

  • Alcohols, esters, and green solvents

  • Natural actives and functional ingredients

🌍 CO₂ Capture, Gas Fermentation & Bio-Energy

We evaluate carbon-to-product pathways using CO₂, CH₄, or syngas as feedstocks.
Our TEAs quantify yield efficiency, gas-utilization rates, and required CAPEX for gas fermentation or methanation systems.

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Example technologies:

  • CO₂-to-ethanol and CO₂-to-acetate

  • Syngas fermentation for biofuels

  • Algae-based CO₂ utilization

💧 Microbial & Algae-Based Production

TEA is essential to scale microbial processes efficiently.
We help compare bioreactor configurations, utilities consumption, and downstream recovery costs to find the economic sweet spot between lab and pilot scale.

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Typical organisms:

  • Yeast, bacteria, fungi, cyanobacteria, and microalgae

  • Pigment, enzyme, and lipid production

🤝 Who We Work With

We collaborate with founders, CEOs, CTOs, investors, accelerators, and engineering teams across the biotech and sustainable manufacturing landscape.

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Our global experience spans projects in Europe, North America, LATAM, and Asia-Pacific, providing real-world insight into cost, logistics, and supply-chain economics.

🚀 Connect with Sustech Innovation

Whatever your product, protein, polymer, or platform chemical,  we help you understand its economics, scale it efficiently, and position it for funding success.

 

📩 Contact: Gustavo@sustech-innovation.com

🌍 Locations: London, UK | Berlin, Germany | Mexico City, Mexico

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