SCO2

About SCO2

SCO2 is a Minnesota-based industrial technology company focused on next-generation supercritical CO₂ extraction for biomass and food-side streams. Its Nextract Technology is designed to recover high-value ingredients from plant byproducts such as pomace, coffee grounds, wheat bran, and other biomass that would otherwise be composted, burned, or disposed of. (sco2.com)

The company positions itself as a circular-economy enabler for food and ingredient operators, emphasizing that its system can be deployed inside existing facilities without interrupting current operations. SCO2 says its process is industrial-scale, automated, solvent-free, and intended to turn waste streams into clean, market-ready ingredients with better economics and lower environmental impact. (sco2.com)

Core Values

• Waste reduction and circularity: SCO2 frames its mission around preventing waste and putting valuable material back into the food system instead of sending it to landfill, boiler fuel, or low-value uses. (sco2.com)
• Efficiency and scalability: The company emphasizes faster cycle times, automation, and industrial-scale throughput as the key improvements over legacy supercritical CO₂ extraction. (sco2.com)
• Clean-label processing: SCO2 highlights solvent-free processing, no hexane, preserved native molecules, and ready-to-formulate ingredients for food, pharma, cosmetic, and nutraceutical markets. (sco2.com)
• Practical deployment: The technology is positioned to fit existing operations, with licensed, co-located systems fed by the customer’s biomass stream so the line keeps running. (sco2.com)

Unique Aspects

• On-site, co-located deployment: SCO2 says Nextract is licensed and installed inside the customer’s facility, allowing biomass recovery without disrupting the existing production line. (sco2.com)
• Patented next-generation process: The company describes Nextract as a patented double-piston, cascading-pressure extraction platform with automated infeed/outfeed and inline fractionation. (sco2.com)
• Broad fractionation output: SCO2 claims the system can separate biomass into multiple value streams, including nutritive, techno-functional, sensory, and bioactive fractions, rather than producing a single extract. (sco2.com)
• Experienced founding team: SCO2 highlights founders and leaders with backgrounds in waste processing systems, industrial engineering, commercialization, and food-industry innovation, including a former head of open innovation at Danone. (sco2.com)