We are an innovative, process technology, Devon based company that holds international patents and unique intellectual property. We install process technology that creates a significant income stream for food manufacturers and companies that have to manage organic waste. We do this by recovering valuable food extracts in the form of food ingredients (stocks and fats), and creating a phosphate-rich fertiliser for crop and soil enhancement.
Elemental turns an international
food and waste problem
into value-added end products.
Elemental turns an international
food and waste problem
into value-added end products.
Corporate
About Elemental
Our process underpins a much needed transition to domestic food and fertiliser security. It enables better utilisation of our precious food resources whilst giving back to the food chain in the form of soil regeneration and improved plant health, all the while creating a sustainable circular model that builds economic, natural and social capital.
Our food ingredient products produced from the patented process are traceable, high quality and sustainable, safe for the human food chain and improve the capture of protein and fat while avoiding the creation of waste. We also recover valuable minerals through the onsite conversion of animal by-product waste streams into nutrient rich fertiliser.
With the increased focus on environmental stewardship, resource efficiency, health, safety and security concerns, and the need for greener and more eco-efficient farm systems, our process has been developed to meet and exceed these and evolving agricultural and food related objectives.
In particular, our process delivers
The Elemental Team
Meet the dedicated team who have invested and committed many years to developing this innovative and ecological recycling and recovery process.
Dean Hislop
Chief Executive Officer
Dean has 25+ years' global finance and operational leadership experience gained in private equity backed and blue-chip corporate businesses, focused on natural resources, large scale renewable energy projects and organic waste recycling. Prior to joining Elemental, he was the Chief Executive of a start-up organic waste recycling and energy recovery business, Tamar Energy Limited, which he successfully sold to an infrastructure fund in 2018.
Alex Gardener
Managing Director – Food Ingredients
Alex is an experienced senior executive with 25+ years' food industry related experience with a focus on commercialisation of new products, process development and the development of customer and supplier relationships. Prior to joining Elemental, he was the Managing Director of an ambient grocery food manufacturer, Jardox Limited, that specialises in the savoury ingredients food sector.
Bruce Palmer
Founder and Director
Bruce invented the Elemental process after a 40+ year career in the meat and pet food industry where he successfully founded a pet food business, Forthglade Foods, which grew to a multi-million pound turnover business before exiting to Private Equity in 2015. Bruce’s innovations have led the pet food industry and was first to market with ready meals for pets, frozen pet foods, raw meat nutrition, modern day plastic packaging and balanced nutrition animal food.