Bio-based process technology
One Technology. Municipal Treatment Plants, Industrial Facilities, Farms, and Beyond.
About IBN Biotech
IBN Biotech develops bio-based process solutions for water, wastewater, and solid and semi-solid organic waste streams
Wherever organic material, fats, oils, proteins and solids, limits performance. The same underlying technology supports municipal treatment plants, industrial facilities, anaerobic digesters, cooling systems, farms and livestock operations, adapted to what each application actually needs.
Water treatment engineers, facility managers, farmers and municipalities use IBN to get more out of infrastructure they already have, without introducing biocidal chemistry.
How It Works
The Base
IBN's technology is a nonionic surfactant base combined with the protein component of a purified yeast extract, a processed, non-living ingredient, not a living microorganism.
The Mechanism
Together they lower surface tension and accelerate hydrolysis, breaking organic material down into smaller, soluble fractions at the molecular level, rather than simply dispersing it through the water the way conventional surfactants do.
The Result
That distinction matters: material that's chemically converted doesn't recombine and reform downstream the way dispersed material can.
Our Solutions
Impact Across Sectors
Built to Perform, Wherever Organic Material Gets in the Way
Our Benefits
The Same Mechanism, Different Formulation for Each Application
Every IBN product shares the same foundation, a protein-based surfactant system built around the same core mechanism. But the composition and ratio of that system, and the specific nutrients included alongside it, are adjusted for each application, tuned to the challenges and outcomes that matter most in that system. Not every application needs the same part of the mechanism either: oxygen transfer matters in aerobic treatment plants, pools and livestock slurry storage, but not in an anaerobic digester, where added oxygen would work against the process, or in a cooling tower, where bulk oxygen is managed as a corrosion risk rather than something to increase. IBN is built around this, not a single product repeated across every application, but a formulation and mechanism matched precisely to what each system can actually use.
Built With Engineering Partners, Not Just a Product on a Shelf
IBN Biotech works with specialised partners to extend what our technology can do. With ALPS Ecoscience, IBN-AD integrates with Hydrodynamic Cavitation and the modular SMASH pretreatment platform for anaerobic digestion, opening up fibrous and lignocellulosic feedstocks that would otherwise limit conversion.
From Municipal Infrastructure to Your Own Backyard
The same protein-based surfactant and hydrolysis mechanism behind large-scale municipal and industrial installations is what supports IBN-Pool, available for home and commercial pools. Scale changes, the underlying chemistry doesn't.
Not a Biocide, and We Don't Position It as One
IBN's technology supports physical and process-related conditions. It is not intended to function as a biocidal product and does not carry biocidal claims under EU Regulation 528/2012. Where a system also requires microbiological control or disinfection, IBN works alongside that programme, not instead of it.
Also Available for Home and Commercial Use
Alongside our industrial and municipal solutions, IBN-Pool is available directly, for pool owners, hotels and facility operators who want the same technology in a ready-to-use format.
A future where the systems that treat our water and waste work better, not by adding more chemistry, but by using the chemistry already present more effectively, unlocking the value in waste rather than just disposing of it, for the benefit of people, animals and the environment alike.
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Not sure which solution fits your system? Contact us, or go directly to the solution for your sector above.