The Canadian company Comet Bio has built a factory in Kalundborg in partnership with Meliora, where prebiotics – a fiber product that is good for the gut – will be produced. Comet Bio has also leased a 3,816 m2 area at Kalundborg Port, where the product will be stored until it is shipped onward.
Comet Bio will produce Arrabina, which is a fiber product extracted from straw, and Comet Bio has chosen to locate the production in Kalundborg because there is a factory here that produces bioethanol from straw.
"Kalundborg was chosen because there was already a factory here where bio-ethanol is made from straw. The ethanol is separated from our fiber product in a production process," explains Freddy Dybdahl Andersen, Comet Bio Denmark ApS, about the reason why the Canadian company chose to locate its factory in Kalundborg.
"We have now built a factory where we produce Arrabina, and we rent an area at the port for the tank containers. The product is stored here before being sent on for further processing and drying into powder form," says Freddy Dybdahl Andersen, Comet Bio Denmark ApS.
The production of Arrabina, which amounts to 4 million kilograms per year, is currently being sent to the USA, where it is sold. However, Comet Bio is also aiming to enter the European market, but is awaiting EU approval, so for now everything is being sent to the USA.
Local anchoring
Comet Bio's area at the Port of Kalundborg is located in the East Port, where the container terminal was previously located, explains the Port of Kalundborg's port director, Bent Rasmussen.
"We are pleased to have entered into this agreement with Comet Bio, and we are pleased that we have been able to offer space in Østhavnen, where we got vacant areas after the container terminal moved to Ny Vesthavn. And Comet Bio is a very interesting company and a good supplement to the industrial cluster that already exists in Kalundborg," says Bent Rasmussen.
Comet Bio has also joined the Kalundborg Symbiosen, so that the company's residual products from production can be sustainably utilized. At the same time, Comet Bio is trying to gather as many activities in Kalundborg as possible.
"We use local partners for logistics and a local company for cleaning our tank containers. So in this way we try to keep as much as possible local in Kalundborg for the sake of jobs," says Freddy Dybdahl Andersen.
Comet Bio will take over the area at Kalundborg Port as of March 1.
