Agricultural activities generate worldwide about 3 billion tons of waste and by-products. These materials, which currently constitute a problem for farmers and a cost to taxpayers, could become an important source of food, feed and raw materials from which to extract active ingredients or bases for second generation biofuels.

In fact, starting from biomass that the processing industry cannot use traditionally, the Hyst process provides for flexible solutions that can be applied in the fields:

• food and nutraceutical
• animal feed
• bioenergy