The customer, a Dutch investment company, was interested in a Russian project for the production of feed amino acids (lysine) in one of the Russian regions for the purpose of subsequent export. At the stage of our involvement in the project, the participants had: a research and engineering initiative group consisting of scientists and technologists, a laboratory-confirmed production technology, a business plan for the project, an investor ready to finance the project subject to the initiative group achieving agreed criteria for the development of the project, as well as with local authorities about the location of its implementation.