PeelPioneer is building European largest biorefenery orange peels
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These are the goals of an effective, bio-based industry. Biorefineries guarantee a perfect circular economy. They are also the ideal solution for overcoming the challenges of climate change.
About PeelPioneers
PeelPioneers processes orange peel into functional ingredients for the food industry that would otherwise be incinterated. The company was founded in 2016 by Lindy Hensen, Bas van Wieringen and Sytze van Stempvoort and opened the world’s first orange peel factory in Son, the Netherlands, in 2018.
GIG Karasek is pleased to be part of such an extraordinary project and is supplying a horizontal thin-film dryer for drying functional fibers. For the recovery and purification of the solvent, GIG Karasek supplies an additional solvent recovery unit which is realized by means of distillation. In this way, all valuable substances can be optimally recovered and the solvent cycle closed.