Tetra Pak® Opens New Food Technology Development Centre for Producers of Fermentation-Derived Foods
Food packaging and processing company Tetra Pak® has announced the opening of its New Food Technology Development Centre in Karlshamn, Sweden. The centre will help producers of biomass and precision fermentation-derived food products accelerate their time to market and reduce investment risk through pilot plant trials. Companies will receive tailored support from experts, allowing them to develop their technical processes and take their products from prototype to commercial-scale production. The …
Portugal’s PFx Biotech Secures €5M to Produce Bioidentical Human Milk Proteins Through Precision Fermentation
Portuguese startup PFx Biotech has raised €2.5 million in a seed funding round led by Buenavista Equity Partners, with support from EIT Food and Beta Capital. The company has also secured a €2.5 million grant from the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA), taking the total amount it has raised to €5 million. PFx Biotech is focused on producing highly functional bioidentical human milk proteins through precision fermentation. …
Scotland Gets Its First Open-Access 300L Fermenter Thanks to £847K Grant
Scotland’s biotechnology sector is celebrating the launch of the country’s first open-access 300-litre fermenter, which has been installed thanks to an £847,000 grant from the national economic development agency, Scottish Enterprise. The fermenter, which is a type of bioreactor used to cultivate microorganisms, is located at the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre’s (IBioIC) FlexBIO scale-up facility at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. It expands IBioIC’s scale-up capabilities significantly, increasing upstream bioprocessing capacity …
Enifer Partners With FS to Produce Mycoproteins in Brazil from Corn Ethanol Sidestreams
Finnish mycoprotein company Enifer has announced that its proprietary PEKILO® fermentation technology is set to arrive in Latin America for the first time, in partnership with Brazilian ethanol producer FS. The collaboration will mark the first time Enifer’s PEKILO®Pet and PEKILO®Aqua production processes have operated outside Europe, and the first time corn ethanol-derived thin stillage has been used as feedstock. FS is now working to construct an industrial process at …
Liberation Labs Rebrands as Liberation Bioindustries Ahead of Commercial Precision Fermentation Launch
Liberation Labs has officially changed its name to Liberation Bioindustries to better reflect its role as a global contract biomanufacturer operating at commercial scale. The company is preparing to bring its first purpose-built precision fermentation facility online in Richmond, Indiana, in early 2026. A second site in Saudi Arabia is currently in the feasibility assessment phase. Mark Warner, founder and CEO, explained the rationale behind the name change: “As we …
Sweden’s Millow Commissions “World’s First” Facility Creating Beef-Like Protein From Mycelium & Oats
Swedish food tech company Millow has commissioned its first large-scale facility after three decades of research. Said to be the first of its kind worldwide, the factory will turn mycelium and Nordic oats into a clean-label, beef-like protein. Each production line in the 2,500 m² site, which was formerly a LEGO production hall, will deliver up to 500 kg of protein per day once fully outfitted later this year. The building also houses …
NoMy Secures €1.25M to Commercialize Mycoprotein Technologies Using Resources From Beet Sugar Manufacturing
Norwegian Mycelium (NoMy) has raised €1.25 million in funding from Japanese investor Nippon Beet Sugar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Nitten), which was also joined by follow-on investments from an international consortium of investors, including TD Veen, EIT Food, Farvatn Venture, and others The funding will allow NoMy to scale the deployment of its mycoprotein technologies, improving the sustainability and diversity of protein supplies in the food and feed industry through partnerships …
TurtleTree Becomes First to Receive FDA Clearance for Precision-Fermented Lactoferrin
California-based biotech company TurtleTree has secured a “No Questions” letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its precision fermentation-produced lactoferrin, referred to as LF+. This correspondence indicates that the FDA has completed its review of TurtleTree’s Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) dossier without raising any safety concerns, allowing the ingredient to be used in food products within the United States. The FDA’s assessment of LF+ encompassed genomic, …
Daisy Lab Announces Major Breakthrough in Production of Bovine Lactoferrin Through Precision Fermentation
New Zealand-based precision fermentation company Daisy Lab has announced a major milestone in its work to produce bovine lactoferrin. After just over a year of research, Daisy Lab says it can now produce multiple grams per litre of bovine lactoferrin in a yeast host. This reportedly opens the door to the commercial-scale production of bioidentical lactoferrin for applications such as infant formula, functional foods, supplements, and nutraceuticals. Lactoferrin is described …
Vivici Secures US Production for Precision-Fermented Dairy Protein via Liberation Labs Deal
Vivici, a Dutch precision fermentation company, has secured a manufacturing partnership with US-based Liberation Labs for the production of its beta-lactoglobulin (BLG) protein ingredient, Vivitein™. The agreement will see Vivici’s product manufactured at Liberation Labs’ new facility in Richmond, Indiana, with commercial-scale output expected to begin in 2026. The Richmond site is Liberation Labs’ first commercial-scale biomanufacturing facility, currently under construction. It will feature 600,000 liters of fermentation capacity and …