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One in three employees sees AI as a threat

AI is gaining a foothold on the production floor, but employees have concerns. More than a third (34%) see the technology as a threat to their skills and expertise. In addition, 58% feel that decisions about digitalizati..

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

NIZO: Investigation of astringency in plant-based foods

29 June 2020

Astringency is an well-known aspect (some may call it a defect) of the taste of red wine, green tea and many types of fruit (e.g. grapes, bananas, persimmon). This ‘classical’ type of astringency has been shown by resear...

Foodwatch launches manifest against the sale of science

16 June 2020

Foodwatch launches a manifesto against the sale of science as the start of a large-scale campaign. This is in response to the increasing public-private partnership and the risks this entails. Foodwatch has formulated con...

The relentless energy of Zandbergen World's Finest Meat

15 June 2020

With a brand new building for the Beyond Meat branch, Zandbergen is going for 'best in class' sustainability with RBK Food Projects. More and more companies involved in the import and trade of meat are making th...

Baaijens gaat samenwerking aan met Sterilsystems

11 June 2020

Baaijens Industrial Equipment B.V. is in 2020 een exclusieve samenwerking aangegaan met de firma Sterilsystems, producent van desinfectie- en geurneutralisatie apparatuur en systemen, gebaseerd op UV-C en OZON technologi...

New survey on opportunities in plant-based sector