Every industry leaves behind a particular environmental footprint, be it in water pollution or any other aspect. Water being an essential process component for almost all manufacturing industries or solid organic waste. This ap¬plies even more to the residential segment, where humans have a significant environmental footprint, when cumulative volumes produced daily are considered. Founded in 2017, Greyeast Technologies is a biotech start-up that develops in-novative solutions for managing and modulating the growth of microorganisms in waste management, fermentation, and hy¬giene control. It helps reduce the energy requirement in terms of chemicals used for water treatment, making its customers' overall processes and existence more sustainable.
Customers in this segment expect the delivery of products and services sustainably due to rising global awareness. Eco-friendly and sustainable products, besides correct pricing and other economic aspects, are the major expectations of clients. Greyeast Technologies is well positioned to help manufacturing and service industry sectors reduce their environmental footprint of CO2 emissions and water pollution. It operates in
the cleantech sector, employing microbiology for waste management and bioremediation. Since its inception five years ago, Greyeast has been working in western India in various industrial and residential setups in and around the Mumbai region and in Gujarat, with a few clients coming up in central India. It spent the initial years thoroughly identifying customer persona to achieve a product market fit, starting operations from home-balcony and gradually advancing to a biotech facility. Technology development grants by DST, AIM, and DRDO helped it grow in the sector. "We play a complementary role to help existing and burgeoning manufacturing sector reduce their environmental and carbon footprint”, speaks Atharva Patankar Co-Founder, Greyeast Technologies.
Customizing solutions for the best fit
Greyeast offers a range of biotechnological solutions in waste management (liquid and solid) and utilizes biotechnology to create value from waste streams. It has developed EffluePure, which brings down the Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) of the effluent. JantuKill is a NABL-tested non-alcoholic surface sanitizer. Another solution, VardhanOL, is a fermentation hygiene management and growth-promotion product that enhances alcohol production in sugar industries and improves the quality of residue biomass. Lastly, it offers Sewoclean for Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) to reduce the sewage's COD, BOD, and foul odor. “We are constantly in the mode of discovering and developing newer microorganisms with better and more interesting traits and skills to meet the needs of our highly diverse clientele”, says Ambareesh Phadnavis, Co- Founder & CEO, Greyeast Technologies.
The key differentiator for Greyeast as a company and its microbial formulation products is the sheer amount of data-gathering and R&D it does to develop a customized microbial cocktail to meet the client's needs. Greyeast products are customized as per requirements and each client's effluent composition, fortified with additional biocatalysts and enzymes. Greyeast is promoted by research scientists and technologists from academic institutions like the Technical University of Denmark, IIT-Bombay, and Mumbai University. The team's combined knowledge helps it provide intuitive and novel solutions to its diverse clients ranging from small MSMEs to giant corporations to hotels, hospitals, and residential societies to individual house-holds septic-tanks and biogas plants. It was awarded by the Atal Innovation Mission under the aegis of NITI Aayog, and Ministry of Science and Technology for developing new water and surface disinfection methods.
"Public awareness and rising corporate morals toward a circular economy are impeding the waste management market. Riding the wave of environmental and climate consciousness, Greyeast has positioned its products in the water domain, a neglected sector. Expecting to reach initial 100 customers in the next year, we aim to become an end-to-end technology provider, from treating waste to re-utilizing it", says Sampada Phadnavis, Co-Founder, Greyeast Technologies.
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