15 April 2024
World’s first biorefinery for coffee opens in Denmark
Nordmann partner Kaffe Bueno has opened the world’s first coffee biorefinery in Rødovre, Denmark. With a starting capacity of 500 tons of coffee grounds per year, the company has reached an important milestone in sustainable innovation. With its special upcycling technology, Kaffe Bueno manufactures unique products such as KAFFIBRE® and KAFFOIL®, KAFFAGE™ and KAFFAIR™ from the health-promoting compounds found in spent coffee grounds in order to support applications in food and cosmetics.
With the newly opened biorefinery, Kaffe Bueno is working to reduce the massive CO2 emissions generated every day from brewing three billion cups of coffee across the globe.

Background
When brewing coffee, less than 1% of the health-promoting compounds in coffee beans actually end up inside the cup – the remaining 99% remain in the used coffee grounds. Kaffe Bueno upcycles these ancillary products using environmentally friendly technologies to produce its four product lines (KAFFIBRE®, KAFFOIL®, KAFFAGE™ and KAFFAIR™).
Products for the food and cosmetics industry
Products for the cosmetics industry
Distributed in Austria, Germany and Switzerland as well as in other countries in Europe.


27 February 2023
New Kaffe Bueno actives for the cosmetics industry
Nordmann partner Kaffe Bueno is expanding its product range. In April, the Danish company launches two new active ingredients which are based on sustainable, upcycled coffee grounds powder: KAFFAGE™ and KAFFAIR™.

25 April 2022
Hot black coffee
For some, coffee is a pick-me-up and a lifestyle drink. For Alejandro Franco of the Danish scale-up Kaffe Bueno, it’s the start of a new recycling phase. Together with two former university buddies, he uses the leftovers from brewed coffee to make new cosmetic and food products.

20 September 2021
New partnership with Kaffe Bueno
Nordmann expands its product range: since the beginning of this year, the international distributor of raw materials and specialities has exclusively distributed the products KAFFIBRE® and KAFFOIL® of Danish manufacturer Kaffe Bueno in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavia.