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Bühler opens new grain innovation centre

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Bühler Inaugurates New Grain Innovation Centre in Switzerland

Swiss technology group Bühler yesterday inaugurated its new Grain Innovation Centre (GIC) in Uzwil, Switzerland. According to Bühler, the new application centre marks a milestone in the promotion, collaboration and innovation in grain processing. The new location replaces the company’s former Grain Technology Centre, which has served the milling industry since 1951. Spanning five stories and covering 2,000 square meters, the facility boasts a cutting-edge infrastructure, housing 70 advanced machines from Bühler and its partners. This forward-thinking Grain Innovation Center (GIC) is designed as a hub for customer-driven experimentation, innovation, and solution development tailored to specific industry needs. “The Grain Innovation Center is the latest addition to Bühler’s growing network of application and training centres in Uzwil,” says Johannes Wick, CEO of Grains & Food …

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Pet Food

Big Idea Ventures Partners with Key Industry Players to Launch Next Gen Pet Food Innovation Program

Big Idea Ventures, in collaboration with Mars Petcare, AAK, and Bühler, has announced the launch of the Next Generation Pet Food Program. This initiative seeks to foster innovation in the pet food industry by engaging human food startups to develop sustainable solutions for pet nutrition. The program is particularly focused on reducing carbon emissions through the development of novel ingredients, sustainable protein and fat sources, and advanced processing technologies. This initiative is a joint effort by several industry leaders. Mars Petcare, known for its contributions to veterinary care and pet nutrition, is partnering with AAK, a company specializing in plant-based oils and fats, and Bühler, a global provider of technology for food and feed production. Together, these companies aim to support startups that can introduce …

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Interviews

Bühler: “We Work Together to Create Solutions for Customers That Otherwise Wouldn’t Have Been Possible”

Bühler Group is a prominent Swiss company known for its advanced technology solutions for food processing and manufacturing. Founded in 1860 by Adolf Bühler in Uzwil, Switzerland, the company has grown to become a global leader in providing technologies for processing grains, rice, pasta, chocolate, and other foods. With its global presence, Bühler operates research and development centers and manufacturing sites around the world, serving customers in over 140 countries. We spoke with Lukas Frei who leads the market segment Alternative Proteins and Food Ingredients at Bühler. He is based at the headquarters in Uzwil, Switzerland. In what ways is Bühler innovating in the field of meat alternative processing technology? One of the main challenges in the industry has been the texture of the products. …

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Givaudan, MISTA, and Bühler, three top players in the food industry, reveal the establishment of a cutting-edge extrusion hub at the MISTA Innovation Center in San Francisco.

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Manufacturing & Technology

Givaudan, MISTA, and Bühler Launch New Extrusion Hub for Plant-Based Products in USA

Givaudan, MISTA, and Bühler, three top players in the food industry, announce the launch of a cutting-edge extrusion hub at the MISTA Innovation Center in San Francisco, USA. The new facility advances MISTA’s capabilities in driving food innovation, while Givaudan and Bühler have teamed up to provide a platform for conducting product development trials for extruded products.  The hub features a 30mm twin-screw Bühler extruder capable of high and low-moisture extrusion, making it suitable for various products, including plant-based meats, cereals, and snacks. According to the announcement, the facility’s extruding equipment is larger than benchtop extruders and offers a high output capacity of 50 kilograms per hour. By leveraging these capabilities, companies can translate their trials into full-scale production equipment. At the same time, they …

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Plantbased Business Hour

How the Bühler Group Champions Sustainability with Thierry Duvanel

Thierry Duvanel, Director of Innovation at the Bühler Group gives real-world examples of sustainability goals being met and measured at the company in scopes 1, 2, and 3. A beacon for other supply chain companies to meaningfully contribute to positive planetary change, Bühler is leading in cleaning up the food systems supply chain. Thierry explains how on this episode of The Plantbased Business Hour.  Specifically, they discuss, Bühler’s shift to sustainability and the extent of the capital requirement, How important is it to understand Scopes 1, 2, 3 and the importance of supply chain in the environmental equation, The growth and impact potential of the alternative protein’s supply chain and The business advantage from having good sustainability numbers. Below is a highlight clip from their …

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Manufacturing & Technology

LSDH’s €32M Soy Plant in France Powered by Bühler Now Fully Operational

LSDH Group announces that its soy plant in France is now fully operational. The new plant is part of a facility owned by LSDH in partnership with Sofiprotéol, an investment company dedicated to the production of plant-based beverages. LSDH states that the company invested €32 million as part of its ambition to be a key player in France’s plant-based beverage ingredient market. The plant, with a surface area of 9,000 square meters, will have the capability to offer local soy ingredients that can be used in plant-based yogurts, ice creams, and cheeses. The business was initially established as a dairy company and now employs 2,000 staff. Its products are sold mainly as store brands in major supermarket chains around France and reportedly generated a turnover …

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Plantbased Business Hour

Can Vertical Farming Unlock Solutions for Plant-based Meat and Dairy?  Ian Roberts, CTO of Bühler Group

Ian Roberts, Chief Technology Officer at Bühler Group, talks global sustainability, the alternative proteins and plant-based innovation market, and building key partnerships on the Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano. Specifically, they discuss What does Ian see as the trajectory for Plant-based Innovation and Alternative Proteins and in what time frame? How Buhler sees itself as propelling the sector forward, and what challenges are still plaguing the sector? What are Buhler’s current capital investment strategies for cultivated meat and fermented proteins? How does Buhler support the start-up community and what role does it play in the entrepreneur’s growth? Below is a short clip and transcript from their conversation. Podcast here. Display “Vertical Farming Solutions Could Unlock New Plant-based Products” from YouTube Click here to display content …

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Buhler Group Goes Big in Supporting Plant-Based Startups

From Uzwil/Zurich Switzerland, The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano visits Buhler Group’s start-up tent at Networking Days 22, stopping at six start-ups booth: Jellatech, Pearlita, Veggie Victory, NoPalm Ingredients, Hooked Foods and Napiferyn Biotech. Elysabeth meets with founders of plant-based meats, alternative proteins and cultivated seafood. It’s the future of food served up from pivotal plant-based player, Buhler Group, at its global headquarters with a quick overview from Global Head of Communications, Burkhard Boendel. Specifically, they discuss, What is the star innovation Buhler is working on and what problem does it solve? How is Buhler part of the start-up journey? What are Buhler’s predictions for the sector in the next 3 years? Here is a short clip and transcript from their conversation. Podcast here. Display “Burkhard Boendel from Buhler Discusses the …

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Facts & Figures

Givaudan, Bühler, and Cargill to Open Tropical Food Innovation Lab in Brazil

Global companies Givaudan, Bühler, and Cargill have announced they will jointly be opening a Tropical Food Innovation Lab in Campinas, Brazil. The city of Campinas was chosen as it is widely regarded as Brazil’s tech hub. The three companies will work with the FoodTech HUB Latam and the Food Technology Institute (ITAL) to establish a 1,000-square-metre lab on ITAL’s premises. “Superior sustainable solutions” The new site will focus on the development of sustainable foods and beverages, featuring facilities such as wet and dry alt-protein extrusion systems. A range of professionals, including food scientists, consumers, chefs, and marketers, will be able to access the facilities to work on new products. “The Tropical Food Innovation Lab brings a diverse and complementary group of strategic partners working together …

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Company News

MMS and Bühler Announce Innovation Partnership For Next Generation of Alternative Meat & Dairy

The Swiss Bühler Group and MMS AG of Zurich, announce an innovation and technology partnership to advance the development of highly functional ingredients for sustainable meat and dairy products. “With this exciting technology partnership, we will bring new processes to market that will take product quality, nutritional value and sensory properties to the next level,” says Ian Roberts, CTO of Bühler. “There are many complementary opportunities with different business areas in which Bühler operates and where MMS’ membrane technology could be part of the downstream processing. “MMS is highly specialised in this technology step and, like us, is committed to problem solving and innovation. For us, they are a powerhouse for numerous liquid-liquid fractionation applications,” Robert adds. This technology makes a difference, especially in the …

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Cultivated, Cell-Cultured & Biotechnology

Givaudan, Bühler, and Migros Announce Cultured Hub Switzerland Will Open 2023

Swiss companies Givaudan, Bühler, and Migros have made progress towards their goal of establishing a “Cultured Hub” in Kemptthal, Switzerland. The companies announced the joint venture last year, with the aim of supporting the development of cultivated and fermented products. Based in Kemptthal’s The Valley area, the Hub will provide companies in the industry with facilities, technology, and expertise. Givaudan, Bühler, and Migros have recently secured approval to form the joint venture and have appointed a managing director, Yannick Gächter. Cultivated companies have already begun booking time at the new facilities, which should be operational from early 2023. It is hoped that by providing small-scale facilities, the Hub could allow startups to avoid the need for funding rounds, preventing equity dilution. Alt-protein in Switzerland In …

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BVeg Foods and Buhler collaborate for HME

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Manufacturing & Technology

BVeg Foods and Bühler Collaborate to Bring High-Moisture Extrusion to India

BVeg Foods and Bühler have joined forces to bring more meat alternatives made with high moisture extrusion (HME) technology onto the Indian market. BVeg is one of the first Indian companies to purchase HME machinery, which is unique in its ability to replicate the texture of whole muscle meat. The new extruder, made by Bühler, is capable of producing a quantity of plant-based meat equivalent to 3,000 chicken breasts per hour. According to BVeg, India’s agrarian economy and diversity of indigenous crops mean that the country is ideally placed to be “the epicenter for the global smart protein ecosystem.” “One-stop shop solution” Established in 2019, BVeg Foods aims to be a “one-stop-shop solution” for plant-based foods. To achieve this, the company is addressing bottlenecks in …

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Interviews

Bühler: “Our Mission is to Realize a 50% Reduction of Energy, Waste, and Water in Our Customers’ Value Chains By 2025”

With plant-based demand increasing at an exponential rate, but global production struggling to keep pace, vegconomist decided to have a chat with Dave Reynolds of the Protein Solutions and Ingredients Division of Bühler, Inc.   For those interested in seeing the Bühler facility and latest production machinery, here is a link to the company’s October 19 and 20 open house. Where do you see the market going? This market is driven by sustainability and great tasting products.  When it comes to alternative protein products on the market today, there is lots of room for improvement. With the accelerated growth in consumer demand for sustainable proteins and needing to feed 10 billion people by 2050, the technology used now will be scaled up further and pushed to …

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Cultivated, Cell-Cultured & Biotechnology

Givaudan, Bühler, and Migros Join Forces to Establish The Cultured Food Innovation Hub

A new facility for cellular agriculture products called The Cultured Food Innovation Hub is to be established in Zurich, Switzerland. The pilot plant is the brainchild of three companies; Givaudan, Bühler, and Migros, which have formed the hub as a new entity. Going live in 2022 to accelerate the development and market penetration of cellular agriculture products, The Cultured Food Innovation Hub will be a self-sustained company owned by Swiss multinational manufacturers Givaudan and Bühler, as well as Switzerland’s largest retail company Migros. The new hub will be located in The Valley, Kemptthal, a center of innovation and technology just outside of Zurich. The new accelerator will give facilities and knowledge to help other companies with their cell-cultured meat, fish and seafood, and precision fermentation …

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Company News

Bühler and German Institute of Food Technologies Unveil Technology Center Proteins of the Future

Swiss technology group Bühler AG and the food technology research institute DIL Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. (German Institute of Food Technologies) today unveil the Technology Center Proteins of the Future in Quakenbrück, Germany. The new facility provides state-of-the-art research, testing, and production infrastructure for the development of healthy, sustainable protein food products. From today it is now fully operational and ready to receive requests from customers. Closing the protein gap “The opening of the Technology Center Proteins of the Future emphasizes the strong partnership we have forged with DIL in a very short time frame. With our combined expertise we are making a vital contribution to closing the protein gap,” says Stefan Scheiber, CEO, Bühler Group. “The proteins of the future must be …

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Startups, Accelerators & Incubators

Bühler, Cargill, Givaudan & PURIS Announce the Scale It Up Innovation Challenge to Bring Sustainable Products to Market

Bühler, Cargill, Givaudan, and PURIS have joined forces to help accelerate startups that are innovating in sustainable plant-based proteins and provide them with the opportunity to bring their projects to market more quickly, with a new pitching contest called The Scale It Up Innovation Challenge. The Scale It Up Innovation Challenge is taking idea submissions until this Wednesday, August 4th. Companies wishing to enter the challenge can register at scale-it-up.org. On August 6, the top 15 projects will be selected by a panel of experts from the four partner companies. One winner and one runner-up will be chosen and provided ongoing support that will help them scale their product for market introduction. The Scale It Up Innovation Challenge will provide resources, mentorship, and expertise to …

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Company News

Bühler and Hosokawa Alpine Announce Collaboration For Sustainable Proteins

Switzerland’s Bühler Group and Germany’s Hosokawa Alpine Group have agreed a strategic collaboration that will accelerate and strengthen the production of healthier and more sustainable plant protein solutions with a focus on processing pulses into protein ingredients. In this partnership, Bühler is to offer solutions for handling, cleaning, dehulling and milling pulses, followed by further food processing with its extrusion technology, which texturises vegetable proteins into products with a fibrous, meat-like texture. Hosokawa Alpine offers leading technology for dry separation of protein from pulses: Fine Grinding and Wind Sifting. “With this collaboration, we can address customer needs from harvest to final product. Our integrated and collaborative partnership ensures a seamless experience for our customers. This starts with our application centres in Uzwil, Switzerland, and the …

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Market & Trends

Has Singapore Firmly Established Itself as the World Epicentre of Alt Protein?

Last March we published an article discussing Singapore as an emerging food tech capital, with its government investing US$72 billion in climate crisis preparation and creating methods to be to be self-sufficient and battle food insecurity. In the year that has followed, not least this past week, there have been so many further developments that it cannot be ignored that the city-state has effectively established itself at the very forefront of global alt protein. Here is our roundup of recent and most impressive Singaporean news in the past 12 month. This week alone has seen the following three significant Singapore advancements in foodtech / alt protein as follows: Avant Chinese cell-cultured company Avant, the first cell-cultured meat company in China and the first cell-cultured fish …

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Givaudan and Buhler Jointly Open Protein Innovation Centre in Singapore

As previously announced last February, Givaudan and Buhler have this week jointly opened the new APAC Protein Innovation Centre, located at Givaudan’s Woodlands site in Singapore, to enable “agile” plant-based product development on a global scale. The Protein Innovation Centre in Singapore welcomes food processing companies, startups and researchers from across the Asia-Pacific region. There, they can work together to develop plant-based foods that offer culinary experiences. The centre combines the pilot technology of Bühler’s extrusion and processing facilities with Givaudan’s new culinary facilities and its world-leading knowledge in flavour, taste, ingredients and product development. The Protein Innovation Centre is equipped with a pilot-scale wet and dry extruder, a state-of-the-art kitchen for product development, storage facilities, meeting rooms and a viewing area where visitors can …

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