NEW TECH FOODS

Tetra Pak Processing Equipment has acquired Bioreactors.net, a Latvia-based company with nearly 30 years of experience in designing and manufacturing bioreactor systems.

The EU’s new Bioeconomy Strategy sets out plans to support fermentation-based food innovation, as the Netherlands becomes the first EU country to permit public tastings of fermentation-made novel foods.

Danish biotech Chromologics has raised €7 million in a funding round led by Novo Holdings, EIFO, Döhler Ventures, Collateral Good Ventures and Synergetic, bringing its total capital raised to nearly €20 million.

Fermenta, a health and performance nutrition start-up, is set to introduce protein bars made with Solein in the US market, with consumer availability planned for Q1 2026.

Re:meat has rebranded as Curve, marking a strategic shift toward enabling scalable and cost-efficient biomanufacturing of proteins across multiple industries.

Remilk, an Israel-based precision fermentation company producing dairy proteins without animals, has partnered with Gad Dairies to launch The New Milk.

French start-up Green Spot Technologies has raised €5 million to expand its industrial operations and introduce Milatea, a new brand of fermented ingredients designed for bakers, pastry chefs and chocolatiers.

The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has awarded $32.3 million in research funding to 11 projects under the second phase of the Singapore Food Story R&D Programme, aimed at advancing innovation in future foods and food safety.

Pow.Bio has scaled its continuous biomanufacturing platform to 3,000 litres at ATV Technologies’ facility in Compiègne, France, marking a major milestone in the industrial validation of its technology.

The Every Company has secured $55 million in Series D funding to expand manufacturing capacity and advance commercialisation of its precision-fermented egg proteins.

Almost four in ten UK consumers (38%) say they would support the development of chocolate made using precision fermentation, according to new research commissioned by science marketing consultancy Diffusion.

Kingdom Five has launched K5 Radical Protein, a new solid-state fermentation platform that grows whole-food mycoprotein using the edible filamentous fungus Neurospora.

Japanese food manufacturer Ajinomoto has expanded its Solein-powered product line with the launch of a new ready-to-drink coffee under its sustainable brand Atlr.72.

Symrise has announced a strategic equity investment in Cellibre, a US-based biotechnology company focused on sustainable biomanufacturing.

French food-tech start-up Nutropy has raised €7 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round to accelerate the commercialisation of its precision-fermented dairy proteins.

The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) has partnered with precision fermentation specialists The Every Company and Vivici, aiming to advance an alternative protein ecosystem in the United Arab Emirates capital. Precision fermentation is an advanced biotechnology method involving the use of microorganisms to produce high-value proteins and other ingredients. Typically animal-based ingredients, such as dairy proteins, can be produced in this way with no animal input, offering a

Irina Gerry, former chief marketing officer at Change Foods and chair of the Precision Fermentation Alliance, has passed away aged 44.

Copenhagen restaurant Noma has announced a partnership with bio-solutions company Novonesis to explore how biology can be used to create new flavours, ingredients and sustainable food products.

A new report from EIT Food’s Consumer Observatory has found that while European consumers recognise biotechnology’s potential to address major food system challenges, concerns persist over fairness, safety and its impact on traditional farming.

French biotech firm Standing Ovation has partnered with the Bel Group to achieve the first industrial-scale production of caseins derived from dairy serums through precision fermentation.