Biomanufacturing is becoming national infrastructure. Its limit is feedstock. Solarferm makes fermentation-grade sugar from carbon dioxide and energy. Abundant, predictable, and decoupled from land, weather, and harvest.
We combine industrial carbon, hydrogen, chemistry, and engineered microorganisms in a continuous process that converts simple molecules into fermentation-grade sugars.
The conversation around fermentation has moved beyond venture capital and alternative proteins. Governments now view biomanufacturing through the lens of food security, supply chain resilience, and sovereign capability, and investment is shifting from individual products to national manufacturing platforms.
As that shift accelerates, one question rises above the rest: where do the inputs come from? Fermentation is only as scalable as its feedstock supply.
Biomanufacturing at the scale being discussed globally needs feedstocks that are abundant, predictable, cost-effective, and decoupled from agricultural volatility. That is the constraint Solarferm exists to remove.
The industry has spent a decade optimising microbes. The next decade will be about optimising the inputs that feed them.
Our first product is fermentation-grade sugar.
Solarferm produces industrial feedstock from carbon, not crops. Using hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and existing energy infrastructure, we convert abundant inputs into scalable, reliable feedstock for biomanufacturing.
We optimise chemical feedstock synthesis for biological sugar production, using the most efficient energy sources, gas and liquid feedstocks, no crops, no solid feedstocks, no harsh pretreatment.
Carbon dioxide provides the carbon backbone for every molecule we build.
Industrial energy provides the driving force that powers the conversion.
Engineered chemistry does the heavy lifting to form the feedstocks.
Engineered microorganisms assemble complexity efficiently into sugar.
Beneath the simplicity is serious engineering. Solarferm combines proven thermocatalytic processes with advanced electrochemical bioreactor technology, developed with leading research institutions, into a single continuous production loop, transforming energy into programmable sugars ready to power the next generation of biomanufacturing.
The core conversion is thermochemical, not dependent on cheap electricity. We deploy where carbon and energy are abundant or under-utilised, rather than competing with rising demand from transport and data centres.
Abundant thermal and carbon sources, electrification, waste heat, or geothermal.
A deployment gradient, not a single bet on a cheap-power future.
Whether you sell the energy, ferment the sugar, or formulate the product, Solarferm fits into what you already do.
Convert carbon and energy into a storable, sellable feedstock, sited where both are abundant or under-utilised, rather than competing for contested power.
Fermentation-grade sugar with pricing decoupled from crops, land, and weather, delivered continuously from modular plants you can site near your fermentation capacity.
A single carbon-to-molecule platform that makes not just commodity sugar, but the specific sugars that are hard to source any other way, with a traceable, low-carbon story built in.
Built on industrial inputs and infrastructure already deployed at global scale.
No cropland, harvest cycles, climate risks, or agricultural supply chains.
Production measured in days, bankable long-term supply contracts.
Deployable alongside existing energy, carbon, and manufacturing assets.
Outputs integrate with existing fermentation and downstream systems.
Modular facilities add capacity incrementally where demand exists.
However you use it, Solarferm gives you a supply chain that does not depend on farms, weather, or distant commodity markets.
Modular plants sited where you need them, not where the crops grow.
Pricing and supply insulated from agricultural commodity volatility.
A smaller footprint than crop-derived sugar, by construction.
Solarferm brings together deep science, hard engineering, and industrial know-how, the people who can take a process from the lab to the plant. We work with world-class partners, and we are growing, with more to share soon.
Supported by leading research and industry programmes across New Zealand, Australia, and the United States.
Tell us what you make and how much sugar or carbon it takes. We'll show you where Solarferm fits.
Talk to us about feedstock