We hope you're enjoying a well-earned break with friends and family over this festive period. As a slight change to proceedings, we thought we'd round up our most-read stories of 2023, based on engagement via our LinkedIn page and our website.
It's been a fascinating year for alternative proteins – and momentous in many ways – with green lights for cell-cultivated meat in the USA, big investments (albeit not as big as the heyday of 2020-2021), technology breakthroughs, key collaborations, significant personnel departures (and arrivals), some failures (but many more successes!). And whatever you think about COP28, food finally made it to the table! Together, though, the below 10 stories received a whopping 110,224 interactions so make our Top 10 because they're the stories you were intrigued by the most.
We'll be back as usual with more up-to-date news from the alternative proteins industry in the new year. As for our plans, well, we'll be back at the RAI in the Netherlands on 23/24 October for the second Future of Protein Production Amsterdam. Before that, though, we're coming to America on 15/16 May with a Future of Protein Production Chicago.
Of course, we'll deliver another four editions of the industry's favorite B2B magazine, Protein Production Technology International, another 10 webinars, plus podcasts and loads of exclusive digital content and features via our new PPTI platform.
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Researchers at Wageningen University & Research developed a method to produce a promising microalga species, Galdieria sulphuraria, that grows in an unlikely environment: the world's volcanic hot springs
Dutch company, Vivici (founded by DSM and Fonterra), announced it will be supplying into leading innovative food and beverage brands who are looking to bring more sustainable whey offerings and improved animal-free consumer products to market
Quorn Foods, the original pioneer of meat substitutes, launching its first product in the UK in 1985, announced that it will open the Quorn Food Application Centre in Wageningen, the Netherlands to support the further growth of Quorn’s mycoprotein-based products around the world
Sarno was instrumental in bringing plant-based food to the UK, setting the benchmark across the industry with the development of two pioneering plant-based brands: Wicked Kitchen, and the affordable and accessible Tesco Plant Chef brand, which was launched in 2019
Food company Paleo closed a Series A funding of €12 million to scale up production of key ingredients for plant-based meat and fish alternatives through precision fermentation technology, led by DSM Venturing and Planet A Ventures, joined by Gimv, SFPIM Relaunch, Beyond Impact, and Siddhi Capital
At the New Food Application and Technology Center of Excellence in Hildesheim, Germany, GEA’s new food experts will be using a cell cultivation and fermentation pilot line to fast-track innovations from the lab to commercial-scale manufacturing, bridging the gap between test bench and industrial-scale
The announcement came as EVERY scales up following seven years of R&D, launching three products in 12 months and ushering in a new era for nutritious, delicious protein-boosted foods with a lighter environmental footprint. This was Hathaway’s first investment in a B2B company
The 15,000ft2 plant houses bioreactors up to 10,000 liters and has the capacity to produce up to 400 tons of product, and a huge step forward in bringing cultivated meat to consumers and addressing the growing demand for more sustainable protein sources
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) completed its second pre-market consultation for a human food made from cultured animal cells. It evaluated the information GOOD Meat, Inc submitted to the agency and had no further questions at the time about the firm’s safety conclusion
Aleph Farms announced that it had submitted an application for regulatory approval to the Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO) with the goal of selling the world’s first cultivated beef steaks under the Aleph Cuts brand in Switzerland
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