The visit was guided by the company's manager, Tomás Casquero Cimadevila; the R&D Director, Dr. Francisco Fernández de Ana Magán; and the Director of Strategic Planning, Esteban Sonde Stompel. During the same, Francisco Conde López, accompanied by the territorial delegate, José Manuel Cores, met the research laboratories; the Mycological Interpretation Center; Drying and transformation ships; the ecological cultivation zone on noble woods; the greenhouses and the mycorrized plant nursery.
According to the words of the head of Economy and Industry, Hifas da Terra is an example of "innovation and revitalization of economic activity in rural areas" that is looking for its future in other markets and already "exports to France, Italy or Portugal 10% of its production."
To date, the company has already launched nine research projects. Currently, Hifas Da Terra has two projects co -financed by the Ministry of Economics and Industry (through the IGAPE and the
GALEGA INNOVATION AXENCE),
Cosmetinnova and
Mycotecnosols. In the first, Hifas da Terra works with four other Galician companies and the universities of Vigo and A Coruña to extract natural active components that suppose a new alternative in natural cosmetics.
In the second project, Hifas da Terra coordinates a great research work for design the formulation and elaboration of Tecnosols. The latter is undoubtedly one of the most ambitious because it highlights the paper of fungi in the bioremediation of areas contaminated by hydrocarbons and heavy metals.
As explained by the Strategic Planning During the visit, these initiatives, the great international projection of the company as well as the diversification of its activity respond to the ability that Hifas da Terra has had for Reintegares after the fires that in 2006 devastated 50% of the Bora facilities.
From that moment, Hifas da Terra has focused on studying the medicinal properties of mushrooms and developing food, superfoods and food supplements with high concentrations of its active ingredients. Likewise, the company has initiated an important work to promote chestnut as an native natural resource that allows multifunctional use of the mountain offering mycorrhized forest trees that produce mushrooms in addition to fruit and wood.
These are the main lines of work that are maintained in the company thanks to a highly qualified and specialized team that has managed to position the company on the podium of mycology innovation offering a natural alternative with which specialists of nutrition and medicine already work.
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