VALACTO Circular Product Development Centre

The main challenge of the project is to commercialize and implement within companies innovative technologies for the integral valorization of liquid whey from cheese factories, promoting synergies with residual resources from other food sectors (okara, fruit and vegetable residues...). Consequently, tangible solutions to the problem of food waste in these sectors will be found in the regions of Quebec, thanks to two strategies:

• Bringing together cheese factories and partners from the targeted sectors within a cooperative (Alvéoli) in order to share and pool costs and resources (residual, material, human, technological) at the various stages of development of circular products and marketing of technologies ;
• Establish in Gatineau the first micro-lactoserum factory in Canada, which will act as a co-development centre for circular products and a showcase for the commercialization of VALACTO technologies.