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Company: Anuvia Plant Nutrients, Winter Garden, FL 34787
Nomination Submitted by: CerconeBrown Company
Company Description: Anuvia Plant Nutrients manufactures high-efficiency, sustainable bio-based fertilizers for the agriculture, turf, and lawncare industries. Located in Winter Garden, Florida, the company developed and uses a unique technology that not only optimizes nutrient availability and efficiency for plants, but also improves soil health, preserves natural resources, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
Nomination Category: Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Company of the Year - Food & Beverage - Small
 Nomination Title: Anuvia Plant Nutrients
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By harnessing regenerative agriculture, Anuvia Plant Nutrients has developed a high-efficiency, sustainable bio-based fertilizer that not only optimizes nutrient availability and efficiency for plants, but also improves soil health, preserves natural resources, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Anuvia’s products are helping meet the challenges faced by farmers, the agricultural industry and the planet to feed more people, more sustainably through regenerative agriculture.
The company’s proprietary technology effectively re-uses organic materials, such as food or livestock waste. Anuvia upcycles this waste into bio-based plant nutrients that work with the ecosystem, not against it, to maximize agriculture production now and for the long term. Its products improve the health of the soil, reduce the environmental impact of fertilization and provide farmers a significantly improved return on their investment while implementing sustainable practices that benefit the environment.
To add context, up to now commercial agriculture has relied on synthetic inputs to feed crops, which add no organic material back into the soil. Nature’s natural process to break down plant and animal waste into usable form can take up to two years. Anuvia’s technology achieves this in minutes.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Outline the organization's achievements since the beginning of 2020 that you wish to bring to the judges' attention (up to 250 words):
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In February 2021, Anuvia announced a $103 million Series C capital raise led by TPG ART and Pontifax Ag. Anuvia will use the financing to increase the production capacity in its new Plant City, Florida manufacturing facility and expand commercialization to meet growing demand. This new facility has been commissioned and is currently producing product. Anuvia’s SymTRX is already in commercial use on U.S. farms, with use expected to reach 20 million acres by 2025.
Additionally, Anuvia also negotiated a partnership with one of the world’s largest companies in the agricultural sector, Novozymes, the world leader in biological solutions. The collaboration with Novozymes will bring advanced technology to plant nutrition by marrying Novozymes microbial solutions to Anuvia’s sustainable bio-based products and proprietary delivery system. This technology will further increase yield and ROI at no incremental cost to the grower while reducing nutrient loss and farming’s environmental footprint.
Anuvia also completed the expansion of its environmentally friendly facility in Plant City, Florida. The facility has the capacity to expand to 1.2 million tons, enough to service over 20 million acres of agricultural crops and meet the growing demand for sustainable products. This production facility is a one-of-a-kind, state-of-the-art plant. Its manufacturing forms a closed loop in which no waste stream is created—only clean air and finished product. For every ton of organic material used, approximately a ton of fertilizer is produced.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Explain why the achievements you have highlighted are unique or significant. If possible compare the achievements to the performance of other players in your industry and/or to the organization's past performance (up to 250 words):
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U.S. farmers are responsible for creating the most abundant food supply in the world–– a need that will continue to grow as the population climbs to more than 9 billion by 2050. As a result, food production will need to increase from the current 8.4 billion metric tons annually to nearly 13.5 billion metric tons per year. (FAO, Building a common vision for sustainable food and agriculture) At the same time, there’s a growing demand by consumers and retailers for environmentally sustainable practices and products. To meet these demands, pressure in now on commercial agriculture to not only increase productivity using the same acreage, but to do it more sustainably. Enter Anuvia: by simply swapping traditional synthetic fertilizer for Anuvia’s organic-based nutrients, commercial growers can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 35%. What’s more, Anuvia’s products significantly increase yield while also improving long-term soil health. To put Anuvia’s environmental benefits into perspective, consider this: for every million acres that uses Anuvia’s unique technology, the reduction of greenhouse gases is equivalent to removing 20,000 to 30,000 cars from the road. If applied to only the U.S. corn crop, which is 90 million acres, this greenhouse gas reduction would conservatively translate to 1.8 million cars removed from our roads in perpetuity – a huge transformation for our country and our world.
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- Anuvia Homepage: https://www.anuviaplantnutrients.com
- ERM report attached further highlighting Anuvia’s immediate benefits for commercial farmers, turf professionals and the environment
Anuvia received recognition from the following awards:
- Anuvia CEO Amy Yoder was named to Orlando Business Journal's prestigious list "2022 Women Who Mean Business”. Yoder was recognized for her work in spearheading Winter Garden's Anuvia Plant Nutrients' charge to help commercial agriculture become more sustainable.
- Anuvia received the 2021 SEAL (Sustainability, Environmental Achievement & Leadership) Awards, which celebrates leadership, transparency and commitment to sustainable business practices. This is testament to how Anuvia is driving sustainability in agriculture and helping farmers make meaningful impact.
- Anuvia was recognized by Fast Company magazine as one of the nation's 16 inaugural "Next Big Things in Tech", showcasing the impact Anuvia is making on commercial agriculture's growing adoption of profitable, sustainable practice.
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