The Future of Food Technology Delivered Weekly
Stories focusing on how FoodTech is addressing sustainability challenges, such as reducing food waste, eco-friendly packaging, and alternative protein sources.
Insights into innovative food production methods like vertical farming, hydroponics, or 3D food printing.
PLASTPOMCoolBioPack pairs a moisture-resistant biodegradable polymer with ventilated tray geometry to speed berry cool-down, backed by nearly PLN 1.47 million in EU funding.
AAK’s patented dry-fractionation process will make palm-mid fractions for cocoa butter equivalents at its KLK joint venture in Johor, promising lower capex, operating costs and emissions.
A snapshot of the food tech stories that mattered today. Here’s what struck me: six developments, six completely different corners of the industry, and they all point the same direction. Aleph Farms just cleared Singapore’s regulator for cultivated beef — making it the only company on earth authorised to sell lab-grown meat in two jurisdictions….
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. There’s something odd happening in food tech right now. The companies making the boldest bets aren’t the disruptors — they’re the incumbents. A dairy giant just backed a startup that wants to make milk without cows. The most significant cultivated meat milestone in the sector’s history came not…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. The most telling moment in food tech this week wasn’t a flashy funding round or a lab-grown breakthrough. It was a quiet £5.4 million acquisition — and who was missing from it. Hilton Food Group, one of Europe’s largest meat processors, just sold its private-label vegan business to…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. There’s a peculiar thing happening in food tech right now. The companies everyone assumed were racing to invent the future keep quietly pivoting — toward buying each other’sInfrastructure instead of building their own. Wait a minute. Isn’t consolidation supposed to come after a sector matures? Cultivated meat was…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. I spent this morning toggling between two very different headlines about the future of food, and I think that tells you something important about where we are. On one screen: UPSIDE Foods in a $50 million auction for Believer Meats’ cultivated meat plant, with the deadline quietly shifting…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. Here’s a number I can’t stop thinking about: roughly one in eight American adults is now on a GLP-1 drug. That’s not a wellness trend. That’s a structural shock to the food system, the kind that quietly reshapes commodity flows, feedlot economics, and what ends up on…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. Something strange is happening in the protein aisle. As whey prices spike 40% and food companies scramble to reformulate, the same week delivers two milestone announcements that feel like they belong to different industries entirely. One sector is cutting jobs and retreating. The other is launching products and…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. Every few weeks, a cluster of stories lands on my desk that makes me pause and think: oh, things are actually moving now. Today’s is one of those clusters. Three of the six headlines landing in this digest are infrastructure stories—big manufacturing bets, facility buildouts, deals that signal…