Cultured meat: GEA and Believer Meats cooperate for sustainable production

Innovative technologies to promote efficiency, sustainability and scalability

27-Sep-2024 - GEA, one of the world's largest suppliers of production equipment and systems for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries, and Believer Meats, a pioneer in the production of cultured meat, have entered into a strategic partnership. Together they want to develop technologies and processes ...

Pork labelling schemes ‘not helpful’ in making informed buying choices, say researchers

18-Apr-2024 - Researchers have evaluated different types of pig farming – including woodland, organic, free range, RSPCA assured, and Red Tractor certified, to assess each systems’ impact across four areas: land use (representing biodiversity loss), greenhouse gas emissions, antibiotics use and animal welfare. ...

Bread distillery: Bioethanol from the bakery

This is bioeconomy at its best: pilot plant produces alcohol from old baked goods

27-Feb-2024 - The bakery of the future not only smells of delicious bread - it also smells of alcohol. This has been made possible by a pilot project with the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart: Germany's first bread distillery has gone into operation at the Webers Backstube bakery in Friedrichshafen. This ...

Sustainability transitions in energy, mobility, food: Research shifts focus from goals to real-world change processes

Research on sustainability transitions has progressed significantly over the past decade, generating insights about the dynamics of long-term, large-scale change

22-Nov-2023 - Existing consumption and production systems, which use natural resources to meet societal needs forfood, shelter, energy and health, are unsustainable. Although researchers from different disciplines have long investigated how these systems can become more sustainable, scientists from ...

Beer in danger

Supermarket citrus fruits contain hop pathogens

18-Oct-2023 - Incorrect disposal of fruit residues could transfer viroids from citrus fruits to hops and potentially endanger beer supplies - according to a study by the University of Hohenheim. Hops, Germany's green gold, are under threat: the Citrus Bark Cracking Viroid (CBCVd) is spreading. This is because ...

How can we put sustainable development at the heart of innovation in a context of inflationary crisis?

15-Sep-2023 - Rising prices could dissuade French consumers from buying products with sustainability-related marketing claims. In the short term, food and beverage brands need to focus on the aspects of sustainability that consumers associate with saving money. In the long term, brands can inform consumers ...

German brewers brace themselves for a long lean period

03-Aug-2023 - First Corona, then the horrendously rising cost of living: people in Germany have less and less desire for beer. As a result, breweries and beer warehouses again sold less of the alcoholic beverage in the first half of the year than before. 4.2 billion liters meant a decline of 2.9 percent ...

BENEO invests in pulse-processing plant

€50 million investment enables BENEO to extend its footprint into the fast-growing market for sustainably produced plant-based protein ingredients

29-Apr-2022 - BENEO, one of the leading manufacturers of functional ingredients, has announced a €50 million investment in a new pulse processing site in Offstein, Germany. The site will produce protein rich pulse ingredients for food and animal feed. It will focus initially on protein concentrate, starch rich ...

Bühler and Ardent Mills celebrate opening of new state-of-the-art mill in Florida

Strengthening supply chain agility and product consistency

01-Apr-2022 - The Swiss technology group Bühler and Ardent Mills, a leading milling and ingredients company headquartered in Denver, USA, celebrated the opening of Ardent Mills' new Port Redwing mill in Gibsonton, Florida. The mill, which features Buhler's most advanced milling technologies, is already in ...

Tönnies expands in the veggie market

01-Mar-2021 - The Tönnies Group is also continuing its growth course in the market for vegetarian and vegan meat substitute products. The company is now bundling its activities in this segment with the consumer brands "es schmeckt", "Vevia" and "Gutfried veggie" in an independent business unit of Vevia 4 You ...