The WASTX Oil - and why waste oil is one of the biggest environmental problems in the world

Every day, the world consumes 80 millions of barrels of crude oil - and rising. But the production of plastics, fuel or consumer goods as well as the operation of internal combustion engines for transport, energy and industry leaves an invisible and neglected trace: waste oils. In many parts of the world this poses a hitherto unresolved problem. [...]

A Caribbean island gets rid of plastic waste

Guadeloupe: In a project so far unique, the biofabrik, American investors and local partners have joined forces to liberate plastic waste from the largest island in the French Antilles. The Biofabrik White Refinery will produce much-needed electrical energy for the archipelago. [...]

Packaging market leader Schur acquires stake in Biofabrik subsidiaries

Already a few months ago we reported on a comprehensive cooperation with the oldest packaging company in the world. Now the global market leader for flexible packaging participates in one of our subsidiaries. For us a reason to lose a few words about the financing of tech startups in Germany. [...]

The long way from technology startups

At this point, we regularly report on progress in the development of our systems and concepts. But what if there was no progress? And not only that? Then it may be time to talk about the strikingly silent demon of the startup - the setback. And [...]

We came across oil. In every place in the world.

After five years of development, the prototype of our White Refinery, the world's first automatic compact refinery, is self-propelled, delivering plastic waste oil - decentralized anywhere in the world. It thus plays an important part in solving the world's waste and energy problem. [...]

DieSachsen.de reports on the biofactory

Today a great article about our Biofabrik Technologies GmbH was published on the page DieSachsen.de. The editor Rosa Hauch interviews our founder and CEO Oliver Riedel and reports on the ideas and goals of our young and innovative company to solve the world's critical environmental and nutrition problems in a sustainable way. [...]

European Union funds biorefinery of the biofabrik Green Refinery with more than three million euros

Since 2008, the EU has been supporting selected startups from the environmental sector with the Eco Innovation Program. In a more than one-year selection process against more than 300 companies from 27 countries, the concept of the biorefinery has prevailed and received the largest volume of funding ever distributed. [...]

Living & Green tests foliage

Living & Green, a wonderfully designed blog that deals with the topics of garden, living, creativity and beautiful life, is currently testing foliage and has written a great article about the first experiences with our fertilizer, which you can read here. The founder Elisabeth Heydeck reports with a lot of passion and dedication [...]

The world's oldest packaging company invests in the White Refinery

The 1846-based packaging company SchurStarSystems invests in the Biofabrik White Refinery. Once completed, the plant will transform the production residues of the main plant into energy and, after a successful test phase, will be used worldwide. The cooperation represents a significant step in the fight against plastic waste. [...]

Amino Acids from Pasture Grass: How Amineon Revolutionizes the Food Industry

With the world's first weed-grass amino acids, we are opening up a completely new raw material for the food industry. Since our health is significantly influenced by what we eat daily, we want to contribute to the sustainable and healthy diet of the world's population. [...]

The Biofabrik White Refinery: How plastic waste becomes energy

Every year, humanity produces millions of tons of plastic through 100. Only the smallest part of it can be recycled after use - the remaining plastic waste collects on countless dumps and in our seas. Meanwhile, the largest of the five garbage whirlpools is almost twice as big as Europe and an end to the [...]

This is foliage: what 100% means biological fertilizer for the nutrition of the world

By the middle of this century, the world's population will grow to about 10 billion people. In order to ensure the dramatically increasing demand for food in the long term, 160 million tons of fertilizer are applied to our agricultural land every year. Industrial fertilizer, as it is used today, is fraught with numerous problems and is also made of finite raw materials [...]