Founded in May 2019, Ithaca-based Clean Label Solution manufactures proprietary soy-based feed for livestock and develops technologies that turn organic waste into useful ingredients. The small company also provides technical support for waste valorization, wastewater treatment, clean-label food ingredients, and related sustainable chemistry. Its Bi-Pass Pro+ feed earned the 2023 Grow-NY Prize and the Soy Innovation Challenge grand prize, while the team’s work includes published research on winery waste and carbon-dioxide capture.
Ecotone RenewablesFounded in 2019 by three engineers, Ecotone Renewables is a Pittsburgh public benefit corporation built around the idea that food waste should stay useful rather than fill dumpsters. The founder-led company helps commercial kitchens and institutions handle scraps on site, with its service team managing the equipment and turning the resulting material into liquid fertilizer. Its work has diverted more than 1 million pounds of food waste and supported 14 operating ZEUS units.325311WILKINSBURG, PA
Renewal Processing, IncRenewal Processing, Inc. is a family business that converts recycled food by-products into feed ingredients, with its origins in Pennsylvania agricultural work. John Sensenig began experimenting with bakery-waste processing in 1990, and by the end of 1991 was producing a dry bakery by-product for cattle feed; the business was founded as Sensenig Milling Services, Inc. in 1994 and later renamed Renewal Processing. The company presents its work as a way to keep food by-products out of landfills while supplying an alternative to grain for animal feed.WATSONTOWN, PA
Hughes Energy Group, LLCHughes Energy Group, a New York-based fiber production and green-technology company, uses its proprietary Wilson System® steam-autoclave process to turn organic waste into Wilson Fibre®, a feedstock for lower-carbon bio-products and fuels. Founded by Brendan Hughes after he entered the waste and renewable-energy sector in 2005, the company is the Wilson System’s sole representative in North America. Its facilities are designed to treat up to 175,000 tons of municipal solid waste annually while diverting up to 200,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent from the atmosphere.YONKERS, NY
Westway Feed ProductsOriginating in the 1940s as a family-owned molasses trading business, Westway Feed Products now manufactures molasses-based liquid feed supplements and related liquid solutions for livestock producers and industrial customers. Its 25 North American manufacturing facilities support products developed through an in-house laboratory, university research, and field demonstrations. Westway also builds its feed business around upcycling co-products that might otherwise be treated as waste.THE WOODLANDS, TX