Brazil’s Typcal Inaugurates New Facility for Its Sustainable Mycoprotein
Typcal, a Brazilian producer of sustainable mycoprotein ingredients, has announced the inauguration of a new production facility in the municipality of Pinhais, part of the Metropolitan region of the city of Curitiba. The facility will allow Typcal to commence commercial-scale production, which could enable the company to begin selling its ingredients in Europe and Latin America by next year. Typcal will initially offer fresh and powdered mycoprotein products, but is …
Solar Foods Reveals Location of Its First Industrial-Scale Production Facility
Air-based protein producer Solar Foods has chosen a site in Selkäharju, Lappeenranta, Finland, as the location of its first industrial-scale production facility, Factory 02. Solar Foods’ existing facility, Factory 01, can produce 160 tons of protein annually; Factory 02 will significantly increase this capacity to 6,400 tons per year. The final investment decision regarding the construction of the new facility is expected to be made in 2026. Solar Foods considered …
FoodNavigator Reveals Top 30 Food-Tech Innovators of 2025
FoodNavigator has released its list of the 30 most innovative food-tech companies, selected from 78 entries in its 2025 Global Food Tech Awards. The selection reflects a strong focus on technological responses to challenges such as supply chain instability, nutritional deficits, resource scarcity, and environmental degradation. Fermentation and artificial intelligence dominated the field, alongside a growing emphasis on bioactive functionality in ingredients. The awards examined companies across three regions—EMEA, the …
South Korea’s SeaWith Partners with 3D Bio-Tissues to Lower Cultivated Meat Costs
UK-based biotech company 3D Bio-Tissues (3DBT), a subsidiary of BSF Enterprise PLC, has signed a commercial supply agreement with South Korean cultivated meat developer SeaWith. The deal will see 3DBT supply its proprietary cell culture supplement, City-Mix®, to support SeaWith’s cultivated beef production. £300,000 deal to support scale-up The agreement, valued at approximately £300,000, establishes a regular shipment of City-Mix® to SeaWith. The product is designed to improve cell growth …
Joes Future Food Commissions “China’s Largest” Cultivated Meat Pilot Plant
Chinese cultivated meat producer Joes Future Food has announced the commissioning of what is claimed to be the country’s largest cultivated meat pilot plant. The company has also completed a scaled trial production of cultivated pork in a 2000-liter bioreactor, a move that has been described as a world first. The pilot facility integrates a complete technological chain, from cell line development and low-cost serum-free media to large-scale bioprocessing. This …
ProteinDistillery’s Facility Becomes a “Protein Competence Center”, Supporting Companies With Food Ingredient Production
ProteinDistillery, a scale-up using a patented process to transform biomass sources into functional protein, has announced that its facility in Heilbronn, Southern Germany, will become a Protein Competence Center from January 2026. The FSSC 22000-certified facility will be transformed into a hub for production and R&D collaborations relating to food ingredients and novel foods. It will be designed to support companies, including start-ups and scale-ups, from prototypes through to commercial production. The …
Webtalk: Transforming Food Systems – Insights and Roadmap for 2026 | update #19
The international business webtalk series ‘update’ discusses the most pressing issues of the ongoing protein transition. Based on the latest news, data, and facts, the future of the industry will be put forward and discussed with key market players in this series of talks. Transforming Food Systems – Insights and Roadmap for 2026 December 11th, 10:30 AM CHICAGO | 5:30 PM BERLIN | 4:30 PM LONDON Business models are evolving, political pressure is intensifying, …
Pow.Bio, Bühler, and ATV Technologies Scale Up Continuous Biomanufacturing Platform to 3,000 Liters
Continuous biomanufacturing company Pow.Bio has announced the scale-up of its platform to 3,000 liters. The milestone was achieved in partnership with industrial solutions provider Bühler Group and industrialization accelerator ATV Technologies. The scale-up took place at ATV’s facility in Compiègne, France, and successfully produced three times more high-quality dairy protein than its equivalent fed batch process. The project demonstrates that continuous fermentation has the potential to be seamlessly integrated at …
Abu Dhabi Investment Office Partners With The EVERY Company and Vivici to Establish Protein Fermentation Facility
The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) has partnered with sustainable protein producers The EVERY Company and Vivici to establish a protein fermentation facility in the city. The four-million-litre industrial-scale site will reportedly meet the highest standards of food safety and Halal certification. It will be designed to be multi-tenanted, allowing for the participation of other fermented protein companies. Furthermore, the facility will support the creation of a regulatory framework for …
Solar Foods’ Factory 01 Reaches Productivity Targets, Enabling Production at Full Capacity
Finnish air-based protein producer Solar Foods has announced that its first commercial-scale facility, Factory 01, has reached production parameters that enable it to operate at full design capacity. Factory 01 will now be able to produce 160 tons per year of Solar Foods’ protein, Solein, after its productivity reached 1 g/l/h and its energy efficiency value (O2/CO2) reached 2.7. Production was successfully ramped up following a maintenance break this summer. …