Agriculture and food industry
AgriFoodLoop captures, evaluates and optimises side streams using digital twins, AI and a DPP-compatible data model. For businesses that want to be ready for 2027.
21 associated partners from agriculture, food and technology.
From 2027, the Digital Product Passport (DPP) will become mandatory across the EU — including for side streams in food processing. Companies that do not build their data infrastructure today will have to do so under time pressure. AgriFoodLoop implements a DPP-compatible data model from the outset and actively contributes its extensions for biological side streams to European standardisation processes (CIRPASS, DIN/ISO TC 347).
An open, non-discriminatory and interoperable platform built on a modern four-layer architecture.
The agriculture and food industry currently lacks the digital tools to systematically capture and evaluate side streams. Its IT landscape is fragmented, data standards are missing, and there is little decision support connecting producers, processors and users. AgriFoodLoop closes this gap with an open, interoperable platform built on four technological pillars.
We represent real material-flow systems as connected digital models that go beyond linear process chains to simulate and optimise genuine circular structures.
We use machine learning and explainable AI (XAI) to provide forecasting, classification and optimisation methods for biological side streams.
The platform is based on a standardised data model compatible with the EU Digital Product Passport (DPP), enabling maximum interoperability across the value chain.
The software core is open source (Apache 2.0), enabling broad use and transparency while supporting a sustainable ecosystem around the platform.
The platform is designed for multiple material flows from the outset. Two use cases have already been tested in operation — with real industry partners, real process data and measurable results.
Insights into milestones, pilot plants and standardisation.
With the official kick-off, the AgriFoodLoop consortium project has launched. Led by Bonn Consulting Group, partners from research, biotechnology and industrial practice convened to align the shared roadmap and prepare the first pilot installations.
Read post →Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) as part of the GreenTech Innovation Competition (grant number: 01MK2412).
AgriFoodLoop combines platform architecture, AI research, biotechnology and industrial practice — from pilot installation to international standard.
Consortium leadership, platform development and standardisation.
Development of the AI models, digital twins and data model.
Stakeholder analysis, algae cultivation and practical testing.
Photobioreactor technology — connecting the digital platform with physical algae cultivation on site. Messel, Hesse.
A. Dohrn & A. Timm and Kontor N provide the pilot sites and process data.
Associated partners support market transfer — including DLG, Gemüsering, the German Agribusiness Alliance and further organisations from science, business and civil society.
Get in touch — we will show you what economic potential lies in your by-products. As a pilot partner, research collaboration or associated partner: the time is now.