We’ve got a little something for you
Just in time for Christmas, our final issue of the year has landed. The Q4 2025 edition of Protein Production Technology International is now live – and it’s unlike any issue that we’ve published to date.
This quarter, the magazine is led by our 26 Food Techs to Watch in 2026, a sector-wide ranking shaped not by an editorial panel, but by the industry itself.
Over the course of just three weeks, more than 13,600 votes were cast by professionals across food tech, biotechnology, ingredients, and biomanufacturing to decide which companies they believe will matter most in the year ahead.
The result is a timely snapshot of where real momentum is building as the sector heads into 2026 – across cultivated meat, fermentation, biomass, ingredients, enabling technologies, and manufacturing infrastructure – at a moment when alternative proteins are shifting from promise to execution.
Alongside the rankings, the issue features our Wildcards article, with 11 in-depth interviews spotlighting companies that are pushing boundaries in unexpected and often under-the-radar ways. You’ll also find a Guided Tour of 21st.BIO, offering a close-up look at how the company is approaching strain development, scale-up, and industrial fermentation – and our latest Protein Pioneer profile, featuring Justin Kolbeck, Co-founder & CEO of Wildtype, reflecting on what it really takes to move cultivated seafood from regulatory clearance to the plate.
We hope you enjoy reading, watching and listening as much as we have enjoyed putting this together for you!
Download our media kit today to find out how you can be featured in the Q1 2026 edition, out on 3 March 2026!
BLUEPRINT FOR THE FUTURE
From 170 expert-nominated companies to 26 public-chosen standouts, PPTI's 2026 Food Techs to Watch cohort captures the momentum and direction of global food innovation. Benjamin Reygate, Lloyd Fuller, Nick Bradley & Dawn Sizemore profile the technologies and pioneers shaping what comes next for a planet under pressure
“This was not a popularity contest, but a way of capturing where the food-tech ecosystem believes real impact is most likely to come from”
BEYOND THE WILD
As Wildtype’s cultivated salmon reaches restaurants across the USA, Justin Kolbeck is proving that the next chapter of seafood doesn’t have to come from the sea
“Cultivated salmon is not a substitute for the ocean, but a pressure valve for ecosystems already stretched beyond their limits”
BREAKOUT BETS
Every deck has its cards that change the game. Selected by PPTI’s editorial team, these 11 companies surfaced repeatedly in 2025 through reader engagement, technical originality and early signals of scale. These are our ‘Wildcards’…
“The Wildcards exist to recognize influence that isn’t always captured by a scoring framework – but is impossible to ignore”
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