S.Oleum’s mission in the context of the transition to a low carbon economy.
Global warming has put the planet on alert.
To mitigate the effects of climate change, the world needs to make a transition to a low-carbon economy. S.Oleum – a company dedicated to the large-scale production of sustainable, carbon negative feedstocks – has appeared within this context and is fully based on nature – the beginning and end of everything. Watch the video above. As part of this, the company has chosen the macaúba – a species native to Brazilian biodiversity, which is rich in plant oils, nutritional brans, protein, fibers, and biomass – as one of its flagships. This is a hardy tree, requiring very little water, which can be planted in damaged or low-yield areas.
Watch the video above.
The S.Oleum model foresees the planting of the macaúba in regenerative agroforestry systems, specifically in the Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forestry system, in which the macaúba farming shares space with other crops and the raising of animals.
An extremely versatile tree, the macaúba is the source of numerous products, which act as sustainable feedstocks for various different industries: Foodstuffs, Energy and Biochemicals, amongst others. As such, S.Oleum believes that the macaúba is soon set to become a new sustainable global commodity.
Bioeconomy.
Founded in the bioeconomy, S.Oleum aims to be a vector for forest restoration, providing renewable feedstocks by means of the macaúba. Under the S.Oleum system, food and energy production go together. The high productivity rate of the macaúba’s advanced plant oils is associated with the increased production of foodstuffs, such as starch, protein high in nutritional value, dietary fiber and fatty materials, as well as high-energy biomasses, which are residual feedstocks for a number of different industrial sectors.
S.Oleum plans.
In the first phase of the project, S.Oleum plans to reforest 180,000 hectares of damaged or low-yield areas in the Cerrado with macaúba, as part of an Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forestry system. This is the equivalent of planting 65 million macaúba trees, which will sequester CO2, as well as supply the bio-industrial clusters based on a circular economy. One important detail: During their growth period, macaúba plants between 1.6 and 9 years of age sequester the equivalent of 28.73 tons of CO2 per hectare annually.
But this is only possible thanks to the knowhow acquired from more than 15 years of R&D focused on the macaúba, which has made S.Oleum the only company in the world capable of scaling up production of the species with genetics and high-yield goals.
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