Category: Topics
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Wageningen has secured funding to turn agricultural side-streams into proteins. The six-year VASCO programme combines separation, fermentation, product development, consumer research, and commercial work around underused crop residues.
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Grote is acquiring Turatti to broaden European food processing capability. The transaction adds Italian fresh-produce engineering, complete lines, automation, and service capacity to an expanding international equipment group.
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Atria has secured €41 million for its Nurmo factory modernisation. The ten-year NIB financing supports an €82.4 million production and energy programme intended to transform convenience-food manufacturing at the Finnish site.
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Purina has opened its most advanced US pet-food manufacturing facility. The $550 million Ohio plant combines automated storage, robotics, digital manufacturing, and advanced food-safety systems across 1.3 million square feet.
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KAIST researchers have mapped barriers to industrialising microbial food production. The study argues that manufacturing readiness, downstream processing, market entry, and regulatory predictability will decide which fermentation technologies reach commercial scale.
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Suntory has identified genetic markers linked to drought-tolerant hop growth. A 4.2-hectare Czech field trial is now testing a variety bred to maintain yield and quality under drier conditions.
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Chobani plans major dairy manufacturing investment at its Pennsylvania campus. The $1.2bn five-year programme could add up to ten production lines, more than 900 jobs, and demand for over three billion pounds of local milk annually.
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Researchers propose chemical grouping to address food packaging safety gaps. The method identifies 38 priority groups and provides screening tools for packaging developers managing substitutions and incomplete hazard data.
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Germany has updated its national method for measuring packaging recyclability. The 2026 standard quantifies recoverable material by weight and gives pack developers a practical benchmark as PPWR implementation advances.
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EU regulators are defining how new genomic technique rules operate. The Commission wants evidence on procedures for verification, release, and market applications before Regulation (EU) 2026/1388 applies in July 2028.