The document discusses a project to produce pectin using innovative technology. It describes problems with current pectin production methods such as high costs, low yields, and environmental hazards. The innovative technology would allow using dried and fresh raw materials year-round, have a closed water system, produce pectin from various raw materials, and more efficiently bind toxic metals and radionuclides. It outlines a multi-stage project timeline and funding needs totaling over $148 million. It also discusses market opportunities, citing a growing global pectin market of over $319 million annually.

1. Project «Pectins»
Association “Ukrainian Innovation Companies” «Ukrainian Center of Commercialization and Technology Transfer»
49000, Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk, 49000, Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk,
K.Marx av., 81 K.Marx av., 81
Website: www.auic.com.ua Website: www.cctt.com.ua
E-mail: auic@auic.com.ua E-mail: cctt@cctt.com.ua
Phone / Fax: +38 (0562) 35-00-80 Phone / Fax: +38 (056) 376-10-70

2. Problems of pectin production
Using of environmentally
High energy consumption hazardous strong acids A considerable length of Inefficient binding of
in the pectin production in the production (HCI, the production process radionuclides
HNO3, H3PO4, H2SO4)
High cost of raw materials
Increased consumption
and the problems Low saturation of the
of ethanol
associated with its world pectin market
(Alcohol)
reduction in cost

3. The benefits of innovative technology
• The possibility of using dried and fresh raw materials, which will increase the working time of the
plant up to 250 days a year.
• Technology has a closed cycle of water supply, it saves resources.
• The technology is implemented on a typical standard equipment.
• The possibility of producing pectin from various types of dried raw materials reduces the
dependence of the producer from the yield and season duration.
Benefits
Toxic metals, Binding, %
SUBSTANCE
Lanthanum Cerium Yttrium Niobium Plumbum
Standard
20 15 18 80 45
pectin
Pectin
79 75 69 90 90
(ITE technology)

4. Stages of the project and list of works
I stage Volume of investment
Experimental and technological production
of pectin and its certification.
Business plan. 12
Development of technology pool for the months 129 000 $
implementation of organizational and pre-
work.
II stage
Drafting of the plant construction.
Solution of land issues. 24
Construction of the first module of the plant, months 8 271 020 $
capacity of 200 tons of pectin in the year.
III stage
Construction and commissioning of for 6 months on
additional modules of the plant with access to each subsequent 141 031 490 $
production cell
a given production capacity of 2000 tons.

5. Integral project performance indicators
Investment
Payback Period Hurdle rate
profitability
Planned indicator / Risk indicator
Current stage of the project
• Technology of production pectin from pumpkin was tested in the laboratory and industrial conditions
of production.
• The presence of patents, which protecting technology.
• The presence of specification on the production of pectin from pumpkin.
• Elements of know-how technology was proven in industrial conditions at the factories of Spain and
India.
• Pumpkin pectin has been clinically tested in the second Children’s Hospital of Kiev, in the areas of in
the areas of Chernobyl contamination (at the Institute of Microbiology and Virology of NASU) and at the
Kiev Postgraduate Medical Institute.

6. The volume of market and rate of market development
Distribution of pectin market among
The distribution of consumption in the
world producers
world pectin market
(in thousands of tons)
The world pectin market is currently estimated at 319 million U.S. dollars.
There is a steady increase in the consumption of pectin on average 3,0 - 3,5% per year.
World production of pectin - 80 thousand tons per year.
Consumption of pectin in Ukraine - 800 tons per year.

7. Product application areas

8. Consumers
Multinationals:
Nestle Barilla GlaxoSmithKline Danone Kellogg’s Unilever Parmalat
Ukraine:
Confectionery
Betteks Foods Trading house
«Griffon and K» Ltd. Corporation JSC «Conti» SE «Hadler» «AVK»
Limited «Palmyra»
(Kiev) Roshen (Donetsk) (Kiev) (Donetsk)
(Kiev) (Odessa)
(Kiev)
Other countries:
«Baltic Group» «Soyuzopttorg» «Globar» OJSC Belkhim OJSC «Bucuria»
(Russia) (Russia) (Russia) (Belarus) (Moldavia)