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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 ..

Vegan meat products range

14 September 2020

As the largest A-brand in meat products, Kips introduced a vegan range at the end of 2018. Under this range the meat-free variants of the current runners were introduced: Chicken Vega Sliced Sausage, Vega Lard Sausage, V...

Normec Foodcare joins StartLife

09 September 2020

StartLife and Normec Foodcare have joined forces to help innovative food (tech) startups help bring their impactful food products and technologies to the market faster. By making specialized knowledge and services more a...

The nominees for Foodvalley Champions 2020

08 September 2020

The Nieuwe Melkboer, FUMI Ingredients, Schouten Europe, In Ovo, Protix, VanderSat, Grünten, Fooditive and Verdify are nominated for the Foodvalley Champions 2020. Totally different companies with one thing in common: the...

Jan Zandbergen Group: 'Innovation that Matters'

03 September 2020

The world and society are focusing more and more on sustainability and quality, and the eating behavior of consumers is changing under the influence of these developments. Consumers have different demands than before and...

These are the food heroes of 2020

02 September 2020

On Monday, August 31, 2020, in a special Studio Food100 broadcast on YouTube, the food heroes of 2020 were announced: 6 change-makers chosen from the Food100, a list of 100 progressive and promising food change-makers be...

Finalists Amsterdam Food Pitch 2020

02 September 2020

The finalists of Amsterdam Food Pitch are known! The jury tasted all submitted products on Monday 24 August and selected 12 finalists. On 25 September, the finalists will be sampling their product in the self-service fac...

BOON: innovation and growth vega category

27 August 2020

Het jonge, Nederlandse, bedrijf “BOON FoodConcepts” gaat nóg meer investeren in de ontwikkeling van innovatieve vega-producten én heeft twee data-driven Trade-marketeers aangenomen om retailers te ondersteunen bij de ver...

Pioneering innovation in wall panels

25 August 2020

Have you heard of the Waterproof Construction Board (WCB)? Forget mdf, plywood or chipboard. Discover the durable and fully waterproof polyvinyl chloride Sealwise WCB. Think of wall panels in the production environment, ...

Boermarke is producing plant-based cheese

21 August 2020

Due to the great demand for plant-based alternatives to cheese, Boermarke from Enschede is building an entirely new production line for plant-based cheeses. In the first quarter of 2021, Boermarke will produce more than ...

Nestlé enters market for plant-based seafood alternatives

21 August 2020

Op donderdag 20 augustus kondigde Nestlé de lancering aan van een plantaardig alternatief voor tonijn, de eerste stap in de groeiende markt voor plantaardige alternatieven voor zeevruchten. Het is gemaakt van een comb...

New technology helps farmers around the world

28 July 2020

A partnership between an organization that provides accurate weather forecasts and a company that develops irrigation solutions has the potential to help millions of small farmers around the world. A letter of intent bet...

Resumption of seaweed company Waddenwier

16 July 2020

Where it was previously known that Van Rijsselberghe had to stop his company Waddenwier, he still managed to realise a relaunch. Marc Van Rijsselberghe announced the news himself this week. "We are facing a serious salin...

Founding of Brightlands Future Farming Institute

14 July 2020

To contribute to technological innovation in the agri-food sector, Maastricht University (UM) is establishing a new research institute at Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo: the Brightlands Future Farming Institute (BFFI...

Milk from a laboratory

14 July 2020

An alternative to milk produced by cows has won the 2020 edition of The Liveability Challenge. The challenge is an annual search for solutions to some of the biggest problems facing cities in Southeast Asia and is organi...

Start of Belgian innovation project Q-DNA

09 July 2020

The control and monitoring of food safety is once again at the top of the agenda of Belgian food companies more than ever. Q-DNA, a new innovation project in collaboration with UGent, Flanders' FOOD, (Wagralim), Fevia an...