GEA Group has inaugurated a $20m New Food Application and Technology Centre in Janesville, Wisconsin, US, aimed at enhancing the scalability of alternative protein production.

Swiss food companies Yumame Foods and Le Patron have announced a strategic collaboration, aiming to create new plant-based foods that are tasty, healthy and sustainable.

The European Commission has announced a new strategy aimed at establishing the EU as a global leader in life sciences, with a strong focus on food innovation.

The UK government has announced its Digital & Technology Sector Plan as part of its broader Industrial Strategy, including a £184m Engineering Biology Scale-up Infrastructure Programme to build and upgrade facilities.

Swiss alt-meat company Planted has opened its new production facility in Memmingen, Bavaria, Germany, equipped with modern fermentation technology.

French food-tech start-up Fungu’it has secured €4 million in funding to accelerate industrial-scale production of its natural flavourings made from agricultural by-products.

Arkeon, an Austrian biotech company developing sustainable protein via gas fermentation, has formally filed for insolvency.

Swiss plant-based meat start-up Planted has launched a new ‘steak bites’ product, now available in selected Coop stores in Switzerland.

Swedish food-tech start-up Millow has commissioned its first large-scale dry-state fermentation factory to produce its clean label protein, made from oats and mycelium.

British plant-based recipe kit brand Grubby has partnered with meat-free brand Symplicity Foods to introduce eight limited-edition dishes.

The Protein Brewery, a producer of fermentation-derived, plant-based ingredients based in the Netherlands, has appointed Thijs Bosch as its new chief executive officer.

Phytolon and Ginkgo Bioworks have announced the successful completion of the second development milestone in their multi-product collaboration to produce natural food colours.