Organic Nutrition Centre under construction for circular approach to mushroom processing

Friday, February 1, the realization officially started of the Organic Nutrition Centre, a sustainable business development on the site of mushroom farm and initiator Sikes Champignons B.V. In addition to the mushroom farm, there will be its own facility for processing the mushrooms and a facility to add value to compost by drying it using a biomass energy plant.

Organic Nutrition Centre

The Organic Nutrition Centre is the first production site of the Organic Nutrition Group (ONG). The 7,500 m2 building is being built in Ysselsteyn and will be completed by the end of the year.
Compost from nearby mushroom growers will be processed into sustainable C2C substrates in the form of dried compost granules. For drying the compost, a sustainable power plant will be set up in the form of a wood-burning plant in which pruning wood/biomass is burned and converted into heat and electricity. The heat is used for drying compost, the residual heat is used in the mushroom farm and the electricity is used in the mushroom farm and processing. The entire substrate production process at the Organic Nutrition Centre is CO2 neutral.
The circular approach is in line with the philosophy of 'Kringlooplandbouw' as Minister Schouten recently introduced it.

Possible expansion to Zevenellen in Leudal

Organic Nutrition Centre is now also talking with the municipality of Leudal about the possibilities of establishing itself as a company on the industrial estate Zevenellen. Zevenellen has been designated as the industrial park in Central Limburg where sustainable raw materials and energy are produced in a responsible and safe manner and where a process of knowledge and innovation in the field of biobased agriculture takes place. Sikes applies this form of entrepreneurship.

Really circular goes global

Paul Verhoeven, one of the directors of ONG: "In recent months Sikes has worked closely with governments, local residents and employees to prepare the ambitious circular project. It is now up to ONG to further roll out this project, which is unique for the mushroom sector worldwide.

Source: Mushroom Valley