US-based animal-free dairy company New Culture has strengthened its intellectual property portfolio after securing a second US patent covering cheese made with animal-free casein.

Tetra Pak has announced the launch of its first industrial bioreactor, designed to enable scalable fermentation with reduced operational cost.

The Better Meat Co has announced that it will rebrand itself as BMC Ingredients, a new trade name reflecting the broader food applications for its Rhiza mycelium ingredient.

Biotech specialist NXW Nutrition From Water has invested an equity stake in PhycoFerm, a Portugal-based microalgae strain development company.

Blue Ocean Closures, a Swedish company that develops fibre-based closures and packaging components, has unveiled its latest innovation: Paper-Plug, an integrated fibre-based opening system.

GEA has relocated its Application and Technology Center (ATC) for New Food and Biotechnology to Sarstedt, Germany, aiming to help food and biotechnology companies scale precision fermentation and cell cultivation processes.

Upcycled Plant Power has partnered with East of Scotland Growers to deploy its automated selective harvesting technology across ESG’s farms.

Dutch food-tech company The Protein Brewery has announced an €18 million extension of its Series B funding round, led by ABN AMRO Sustainable Impact Fund.

Precision fermentation is often framed as a competitor to plant-based food, but the reality may be far more collaborative. CPI's Suzanne Robb explores how fermentation could enable the next phase of alternative protein growth.