During the year Phytaxis has been active in expanding their network across regions and in gaining new business opportunities within sustainable animal health solutions. Phytaxis has been participating in industry fairs Blue Food Innovation Summit 2025 in UK, LAQUA 2025 in Chile, Bursa Agricultural Fair in Turkey.

 

And with a growing interest in Phytaxis products – especially Digextra® Aqua developed for finfish –  the venture is now in a good position to further expand its business globally in 2026.

Estonian cleantech company Fibenol Imavere OÜ and Swiss-based Tanovis AG are joining forces to accelerate the commercial use of lignin, a renewable, fossil-free biomaterial with vast potential across industries. The partnership will begin with animal feed applications through Phytaxis SA, a subsidiary of Tanovis AG, and expand into bio-based materials and chemicals.

 

Lignin has long been recognized for its potential as a sustainable, fossil-free biomaterial. However, its variability across types and different sources has limited its broader industrial use. By combining Fibenol’s expertise in producing high-quality, consistent lignin with Tanovis’s experience in market development and application know-how, the partners aim to bring greater clarity and confidence to lignin’s use across new markets.

 

“This collaboration is about moving beyond potential and into practice,” said Peep Pitk, Chief Development Officer at Fibenol. “By working together, we can tackle the complexity around lignin and accelerate its role in driving defossilisation across value chains.”

 

“Working with Fibenol allows us to translate lignin’s scientific promise into market-ready solutions,” added Charles Walser, CEO of Tanovis. “Through Tanovis’ various subsidiaries and our joint efforts, we aim to deliver tangible sustainability benefits for customers and industries seeking fossil-free alternatives.”

 

With this partnership, Fibenol and Tanovis demonstrate how collaboration across the value chain can turn lab-scale innovation into large-scale industrial impact, advancing the use of renewable materials and supporting the shift to a low-carbon, circular economy.

Tanovis venture Phytaxis unlocks the bioactive power of lignin for animal health, while challenging the industry to rethink how products are made, how they perform, and what value they bring. 

 

In this interview in International Aqua Feed, Phytaxis CEO Charles Walser explains how Phytaxis drives innovation in the livestock health and performance industry and how Phytaxis is accelerating the transition to more sustainable fish farming with a strong focus on reducing antibiotic use and improving performance.

 

Vegan food. Lab-grown proteins. Increased awareness of the meat industry’s impact on the environment. With a growing number of reports in the media about these trends you could get the impression that the demand for protein from farm animals is declining. 

 

But the forecasts from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization tells a different story. They predict an increase in per capita consumption of animal products in the coming years. And yes, it’s true that in the developed world, there has been a slowdown in consumption over the past two decades, but it still continues to grow. And others in regions, like Africa, have shown an increased per capita consumption over the same period of time.

And when global living standards gets higher and when the increasing meat consumption

comes at the cost of stressed production and negative impact on the environment, the demand for solutions to make it both efficient and sustainable is growing. This gives our venture Phytaxis and its lignin-based animal health products a good position for further market growth.