Innovation

2025 Trend Report for the Food and Beverage Industry

2025 promises to be a transformative year for the food and beverage sector. Strengthen your business strategy and gain a lasting competitive edge with this practical guide to the industry’s most significant challenges an..

Food heroes of 2022 announced!

28 November 2022

At the Verspillingsfabriek in Veghel on 25 November 2022, the 2022 Food Heroes were announced: the 6 most impactful food changers in the Netherlands. They were chosen by the professional jury from the 2022 Food100 list a...

Heat recovery for cleaning processes

21 November 2022

The basic principle of any refrigeration plant is to extract heat from products, among other things, and discharge it to a place where it does not cause a nuisance. The usual starting point is to release this heat to the...

Cultivated meat production Mosa Meat to new level

19 October 2022

Mosa Meat is celebrating taking the next step in the scaling up of their facilities for the production of cultivated beef. The company is expanding to a total of 7,340 m2 facilities (77,000 sq ft.), making it the largest...

Column Judith Witte: 'Heating and cybercrime'

17 October 2022

I really don't consider myself a digital illiterate, to put it bluntly. I am an expert in Word, I can e-mail, instagram, do digital banking and buy train tickets at an ns ticket machine. However, everything is relative. ...

Smart Industry: “Innovate or drown"

17 October 2022

Digitalisation, automation and robotisation are bitterly necessary to keep your head above water as a food manufacturer. However, technical innovation cannot happen without the power of the people in your company. That a...

Upcycling is one of the green innovation trends of 2022

12 October 2022

This year ClimateLaunchpad, the global green business competition, sees a remarkable number of start-ups looking for 'system solutions', ways to reuse resources. The competition has seen a striking number of entries with...

11 food sector companies in KVK Innovation top 100

04 October 2022

On Tuesday 4 October 2022, KVK presented the ranking of 100 concrete innovations realised by Dutch small and medium-sized enterprises for the 17th time. In 2022, there are 11 companies from the food and agri sector in th...

Startup launches Coffee without coffee beans

01 October 2022

Dutch startup Northern Wonder launched Coffee Free Coffee on Tuesday 27 September 2022. This new product has the taste and smell of coffee, contains caffeine and is brewed the same way, but contains only non-tropical ing...

New at HAS: Plant proteins workshop

14 September 2022

HAS green academy is organising the Plant proteins workshop for the first time on Thursday 24 November 2022. The reason for this is the increasing demand from both the food industry and consumers for products containing ...

Learning, innovating and developing for a new market

12 September 2022

GEA supports startups, ingredient suppliers, and food processors in developing, scaling, and producing the nutritious new foods consumers are looking for. How do they do that? With years of expertise, specialised 'New...

A veggie burger out of the printer

07 September 2022

Researchers at WUR have developed a process for printing a vegetarian burger. The burger is made up of spaghetti-like threads of protein. In the process hall of the Axis campus building stands a Burger Extrusion Print...

The 100 most important food changers of 2022

31 August 2022

For the sixth time, Food100 presents the list of the 100 most important Dutch food changers of the moment. Dialogue within the food chain Sharing knowledge and connecting is more important than ever. It is no...

Meatable reveals sausage made of cultured pork

21 July 2022

Meatable revealed images of its pork sausage for the first time. The cultivated sausage is the first product of Meatable which aims to create real meat that can serve the planet’s growing appetite without harming the env...

Flexcraft speeds up robotics deployment in food industry

18 July 2022

Picking up a bag of crisps or a slippery chicken breast is a real challenge for a robot. An ambitious, multidisciplinary research team is working on versatile robots for the agricultural and food industries that can cope...

Givaudan, Bühler and Cargill open Food Innovation Lab