Bio Recycling A/S

What Bio Recycling A/S does

Bio Recycling A/S is a Danish trading house that operates as a by-product intermediator between industrial producers and downstream energy-sector buyers. The company purchases organic by-products and waste materials from manufacturers in food/feed production, agriculture, and primary commodity processing (biodiesel, sugar, ethanol, biogas) in its own name, assumes commodity risk, and resells to energy-industry and other buyers. Its core functional offering is converting a producer's waste-stream liability into a revenue or cost-neutral outcome while preventing by-product accumulation from interrupting the customer's primary production line. The company is explicitly positioned as independent — not owned by manufacturers or consumers — which it cites as a basis for optimal value capture on both sides of the market.

The company's competitive foundation rests on physical port-based infrastructure: storage facilities at three Danish coastal sites (Middelfart headquarters, Hvide Sande in western Denmark, Hirtshals in northern Denmark) with direct pipeline access to wharves, enabling efficient shipload handling and reduced per-ton logistics costs. These facilities also allow year-round storage of by-products generated in concentrated seasonal production quarters, smoothing supply against demand. The company holds REDcert certification, enabling selected biomass to be traded as sustainable under EU frameworks, and is pursuing additional quality-management certification. Operations are run with a small team of approximately six to ten staff, including category managers dedicated to each vertical (industrial products, agriculture) and site managers for each port.

Commercially, Bio Recycling operates a B2B sales-led model with customized solutions and multi-year contracts. Pricing is negotiated per engagement and is not publicly disclosed. Revenue is generated through commodity arbitrage and transaction margins on by-product volumes, with the company taking principal risk on inventory once purchased. It is a privately held Danish aktieselskab and operates as a subsidiary within BioCirc Group, a larger bio-economy parent entity. The company markets internationally through a multilingual website (Danish, English, German, French, Polish) and explicitly claims international market coverage for purchase, storage, and delivery of by-products. No funding rounds, acquisitions, or revenue figures are publicly disclosed.

Name

Bio Recycling A/S

Legal name

Bio Recycling A/S

Website

https://biorecycling.dk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Bio Recycling A/S is a Danish trading house that purchases organic by-products from food/feed, agriculture, and commodity producers and resells them to energy-industry buyers. Operating from three port-based storage facilities under BioCirc Group ownership, it converts industrial waste streams into revenue for customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial By-Product Trading and Logistics

NAICS

Waste Collection (56211), Materials Recovery Facilities (562920)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Bio-based Resins, Adhesives, Coatings & Sealants (EUAAAIAG)

Keywords

• Organic by-product trading
• Biomass logistics
• Agricultural surplus handling
• Port storage services
• Circular economy trading

Headquarters

HQ city

Middelfart

HQ country

Denmark

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. By-product Trading: Purchase of by-products in their own name, taking full risk once commodities are in their stock. They buy waste and by-products from producers and sell them to energy industry or other buyers, earning margins through price arbitrage and trading expertise.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Bio Recycling A/S is a Danish trade house that purchases, stores, and delivers organic by-products from food/feed manufacturers, agricultural producers, and primary commodity producers (biodiesel, sugar, ethanol, biogas). The company buys by-products in its own name, holds them at port-based storage facilities with direct wharf pipeline access, and sells them onward to energy industry buyers. It provides customized add-on and on-site handling solutions, logistics coordination, and documentation, converting waste streams into revenue for producers while preventing production bottlenecks.

Product overview

Bio Recycling A/S is a Danish trading house that provides a portfolio of by-product handling services across three core sectors: food and feed industry, agriculture, and commodities trading. The company offers flexible, technology-independent, and customized solutions for managing organic waste and by-products through optimization, handling, and sustainable disposal. Services include company screening for by-product opportunities, add-on and on-site solutions, logistics coordination, documentation support, and port storage facilities. The company also has operational sites in Hvide Sande and Hirtshals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• By-Product Handling Services for Food and Feed Industry Screening and handling of organic by-products from food and feed manufacturers, including customized add-on and on-site solutions, investment in handling equipment, logistics coordination, and documentation support. Designed for food and feed producers whose primary output generates biological by-products that impede throughput.
• By-Product Handling Services for Agriculture Management of surplus agricultural quantities and feed-quality issues, including gleaning opportunities, harvest storage solutions, distribution to energy purposes, re-ensiling for profit, and guidance on legislation and market conditions. Targeted at agricultural producers with silo capacity issues, unexpected harvest yields, or feed-quality problems.
• Trade Commodities Handling Optimization, handling, and sustainable disposal of organic by-products and waste from primary commodity production such as biodiesel, sugar, and ethanol. Includes production-campaign optimization and shipload handling for international trade.
• Port Storage Facilities Port-based warehouses at Hvide Sande and Hirtshals with a direct pipeline from storage to the wharf, enabling efficient loading and unloading of by-products for international shipping. Year-round storage capability allows consolidation of single-quarter seasonal production throughout the year and lowers freight cost per ton moved.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced logistics costs through port storage facilities
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• BioCirc Groupparent companyOthersBio Recycling A/S is a part of BioCirc Group. The parent company relationship provides strategic alignment in the bio-economy and circular economy space.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Cargill: Cargill is a global agricultural commodity trader and processor with significant ethanol, biodiesel, and feed ingredient operations in Europe. It generates by-products in similar categories to Bio Recycling's suppliers and is a potential customer, competitor, or vertical integrator in the same by-product trade.
• ADM (Archer Daniels Midland): ADM is a global agricultural processing and trading company with major ethanol, biodiesel, and food ingredient operations across Europe. It operates in the same by-product generation and trading space as Bio Recycling, both as a potential supplier of by-products and as a competitor for downstream energy buyers.
• SARIA International: SARIA is a large European group operating in by-product collection, rendering, and bioenergy across multiple countries. It is a much larger incumbent in the same value chain where Bio Recycling operates, with broader geographic reach and integrated processing assets.

Direct peers

• Biosa Danmark: Biosa Danmark is a Danish company handling organic by-products and residual streams from food and feed production, converting them into fertilizer and energy inputs. It directly competes in the same niche of buying industrial biological by-products and reselling them for agricultural and energy use.
• Sonac (SARIA Group): Sonac specializes in processing animal by-products into proteins, fats, and other ingredients for feed and technical applications. It shares Bio Recycling's focus on redirecting organic by-products from waste streams into higher-value industrial uses, particularly within the SARIA ecosystem.
• Daka Denmark (SARIA Group): Daka is the leading Danish by-product rendering and recycling company, part of SARIA Group, processing organic by-products from the food and agricultural sectors. It is the most direct comparable in Denmark for trading/processing organic industrial by-products into feed, fuel, and other applications.

Regional players

• DLG (Dansk Landbrugs Grovvareselskab): DLG is a major Danish agricultural trading and supply cooperative handling grain, feed inputs, and farm supplies across Northern Europe. While broader in scope, it competes with Bio Recycling for agricultural by-product flows and serves overlapping producer customers in Denmark.
• Hede Nielsen: Hede Nielsen is a Danish trading and transport company specializing in agricultural commodities and by-product logistics. It is comparable in its regional focus and trading-house model, with overlapping customer base in Danish agriculture and food/feed producers.

Others

• Bigadan: Bigadan is a major Danish biogas company processing organic industrial and household waste into renewable energy. It is a representative end-buyer in the same value chain as Bio Recycling, converting the by-products the company trades into biogas and fertilizer.
• NGF Nature Energy: NGF Nature Energy is the largest biogas producer in Denmark, processing organic waste and agricultural by-products into renewable gas. It is a key potential customer for Bio Recycling's organic by-product streams and operates at the downstream end of the same circular bioeconomy value chain.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bio-recycling-a-s

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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