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Construction: Important considerations for food entrepreneurs

You want to expand or renovate. So, you decide to build! Once you’ve made that decision, questions start arising. What materials will you choose? Are they sustainable? How does this choice affect fire safety? What about ..

Grant for accelerating innovation

10 December 2020

In order to speed up innovation, the government wants SMEs to cooperate more. In order to stimulate that cooperation, there is the subsidy scheme 'MIT R&S Collaborative Projects'. The Province of Gelderland supports ...

BASF and UM join forces on durable vegetable growing

09 December 2020

BASF's vegetable seed company and Maastricht University (UM) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in the Brightlands Future of Farming Institute (BFFI). The aim of the cooperation is to study sustaina...

Westland and Vegan Cowboys launch vegan cheese

07 December 2020

Westland Cheese and Those Vegan Cowboys will bring a new vegetable cheese to the market next year. Both companies see cheese without the use of animals as the cheese that offers the most future. CEO Henny Westland: " Thi...

PlantLab opens first production site in USA

07 December 2020

PlantLab, the Dutch pioneer in indoor farming, has opened a new production location in the American city of Indianapolis. The first 'Plant Paradise' abroad grows vegetables for the local population in a place where it wa...

Major step forward for cultured meat industry

03 December 2020

Singapore has become the first country on Earth to approve cultured meat for commercial sale. On Wednesday, December 2nd, the Singapore Food Agency said that the cultured chicken produced by San Francisco-based start-up ...

Vegan wheat bran milk

02 December 2020

The demand for vegetable alternatives to animal proteins is increasing all the time. Together with the Carbohydrate Competence Centre (CCC), Royal Koopmans will investigate how wheat bran can be used to produce vegetable...

Distribution Source Technology via start up Taaas BV

01 December 2020

The Danish company Source Technology, inventor of the PowerHeater™, offers customers innovative technology to produce texturized food products. The process reduces traditional processing and cooking costs for higher valu...

Plant-based cheeses from Boermarke

01 December 2020

At the beginning of 2021, Boermarke will produce 10 tons of vegetable cheese daily, for which an entirely new production line will be set up. For this high quality product, they have found a suitable partner in MULTIVAC ...

Winners Rabo Sustainable Innovation Award 2020

30 November 2020

Thursday evening 26 November 2020, the Rabo Sustainable Innovation Award was presented to Rival Foods, SusPhos and Bilihome. Rabobank crowns them as sustainable thinkers, entrepreneurs who with a healthy dose of self-con...

Espera contributes to consumer trust

27 November 2020

The food industry is the most critical sector with regard to product declaration. For the end user, the label on a product is the platform for all product-specific information, such as nutritional values and allergen inf...

Transition to a sustainable food system

26 November 2020

Under the name of the Dutch National Science Agenda, a broad consortium of 30 scientists from universities of applied sciences, together with a large number of companies, NGOs and innovative networks, is launching the th...

1.2 million for research into bio-plastics from sugar

26 November 2020

Over the next three years, the University of Groningen (RUG) and various companies and knowledge institutes will conduct research into how bioplastics can be made from sugar in an efficient way, so that the price will be...

Appetite for more: IFFA 2022 expands focus

24 November 2020

In addition to the traditional focus on meat, IFFA will open itself to alternative proteins from 2022 onwards. With the new subtitle 'Technology for Meat and Alternative Proteins', the world's largest trade fair for the ...

Consumption alternative proteins is lagging behind

20 November 2020

More and more Dutch people want to eat less meat, dairy and eggs and are more likely to opt for alternative protein sources. Yet the consumption of alternative proteins - fish, pulses, meat substitutes, seaweed and insec...

Unilever puts extra effort into vegan

18 November 2020

On Wednesday 18 November, Unilever announced a new annual turnover target of €1 billion for vegetable meat substitutes and dairy alternatives within the next five to seven years. This growth will be driven by the roll-ou...