Our mission


BactAm’s objective is to develop carbon-negative manufacturing of sustainable products, in particular biofuels and microbial protein, with bacteria used as a living factory.


Our vision

We believe ...

  • ... that reaching the ambitious targets for climate neutrality by 2050 requires breakthrough solutions to disrupt the current production processes.
  • ... in nature-inspired solutions to increase CO2 and N cycles efficiency via a net CO2 and N removal approach.
  • ... that, thanks to bacteria, we can transform Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen from liabilities into sustainable biofuels.
  • ... the implementation of sustainable CO2 and N cycles with bacteria is a key pillar to the net-zero emissions target.
  • ... that Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) with bacteria are enabling technologies for climate neutrality. These practices enable emissions reduction via concentrated CO2 streams capture or removing CO2 directly from the atmosphere to balance emissions that cannot be avoided.
  • ... that the CO2 capture with bacteria production can be integrated with wastewater treatment in ponds or bioreactors.
  • ...  that bacteria can enable sustainable N cycles with low energy inputs, or through circular approaches that use biological waste (i.e., manure, wastewater, sewage/sludge, and food waste).
  • ... in biofuels that do not emit carbon dioxide (CO2).
  • ... that genetically engineered bacteria with biocontainment are one of the solutions.

Technology

Green energy is the future of energy creation and environmentally friendly modes of energy are a necessity for the advancement of the modern world. Modern societies are rapidly moving towards carbon-free modes of energy production. Experts agree that several complementary clean methods will be needed to produce green energy centrally and locally, but their form of delivery urgently needs improvement in terms of hydrogen gas production capacities and the limiting of costs. The classical methods of water hydrolysis with electricity are highly inefficient.


Our proprietary technology is based on the insight that

  1. Wild-type bacteria can produce biofuel by pathways that are independent of each other.
  2. Gas fermentation using autotrophic organisms is an alternative to sugar fermentation. In this approach, instead of breaking down large sugar molecules, microbes build up products from carbon oxides (CO or CO2), which are found, for example, in waste gases from industry (for example, steel mills, processing plants or refineries) or in syngas generated from any biomass resource (for example, unsorted municipal solid waste, agricultural waste or organic industrial waste). Capturing and recycling these waste carbon streams before they enter the atmosphere offers paths to carbon-negative manufacturing and a circular economy.
  3. It is possible to increase the efficiency of biofuel production by genetically engineering the wild-type bacteria with methods that we are very familiar with for medical projects (see page linked companies).
  4. It is possible to ensure a safe and compliant process of hydrogen creation along with the use of our vector, safeguarded by a unique biocontainment mechanism (cells will self-destruct if shed into the general environment, a system used for medical projects) and stable chromosomal genetic constructs (no plasmids, no risk of horizontal transmission).

About us


BactAm srl is a Belgian based start-up company, operating at the intersection of microbiology, bioengineering, and engineering. The company is located in the Walloon region of Belgium. As a spin-off from Benelux Health Ventures and sisters companies, Exomnis Biotech and LivingMed Biotech, we have developed a proprietary engineered commensal bacteria as “living factory”.

Company number: 0792177224, PIC: 884681323

Linked companies


The following are linked companies of BactAm srl.

Collaborators