In 2011, Novozymes and DSM began selling an innovative
breakthrough to the U.S. poultry market: RONOZYME ProAct, the
first pure protease for use in animal feed. RONOZYME ProAct
offers great value to poultry producers by improving the
digestion and uptake of protein in broiler chickens. This
reduces both feed costs and environmental impact.
The U.S. remains the world's largest producer of poultry,
raising 8.79 billion birds annually for food. As such,
the industry is influenced by growing global demand for
poultry, increasing feed costs and pressure on food
prices. All of which makes it increasingly hard for
producers to turn a profit. At the same time, political and
public pressure to reduce environmental impact continues to
increase.
These circumstances challenge U.S. poultry producers to make
more food from less feed, at an affordable price for
consumers. "High feeding costs and resource constraints
remain the biggest challenges for the U.S. poultry industry,"
says Peter Christensen, Global Marketing Manager at
Novozymes. "Poultry producers are looking for sustainable
solutions now more than ever to combat these challenges."
Enabling more sustainable production
RONOZYME ProAct is a proven solution to the challenges faced
by the U.S. poultry industry. It can improve both the
economic and environmental sustainability of poultry
production. As the first pure protease enzyme for feed,
it complements the bird's own digestive enzymes, improves
protein digestibility and makes more amino acids available to
the animal.
This is important because poultry producers currently have to
over feed the broilers with up to 4% more protein in order to
achieve the desired absorption rate of amino acids for
optimum growth. Adding RONOZYME® ProAct to feed allows the
diet to contain less protein and thereby reduces overall feed
costs by three to eight percent.
Reducing the environmental footprint
The greatest environmental challenge caused by excess protein
in chicken feed is the residual nitrogen emissions coming
from their manure. Nitrogen emissions are an environmental
hazard for land, water and air. Because RONOZYME ProAct
provides better protein digestibility, their manure will
contain less nitrogen, thereby reducing the amount of
nitrogen excreted into the environment.
In mid-2011, Novozymes and DSM Nutritional Products completed
a lifecycle assessment (LCA) on the environmental benefits of
RONOZYME ProAct. The study was published in The International
Journal of Poultry Science in January 2012. The LCA shows
that adding RONOZYME ProAct to feed significantly reduces
nitrogen content of the manure.
In the U.S., there is a potential to reduce nitrogen content
of chicken manure between 15,000-30,000 tons, corresponding
to reduced emissions of ammonia of between 10,000-20,000 tons
per year. The potential reduction of greenhouse gases
(250,000-500,000 tons of CO2), corresponds to taking
100,000-200,000 cars off the road in the U.S.
As a feed additive, RONOZYME ProAct is unique: It reduces
costs, it is heat stable, and it reduces both nitrogen
emissions and greenhouse gases. Most other solutions to
reduce nitrogen emissions from manure come with a cost in
terms of increased emissions of green house gases.
RONOZYME ProAct is jointly developed by Novozymes and DSM
Nutritional Products. Established in 2001, the alliance
together has launched more than 15 innovative feed enzyme
products.
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