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Manufacturing & Technology

New Multilayer System from Cocuus Enables Fat Marbling and Textural Variety in Plant-Based Products

Spanish food tech firm Cocuus has launched a new manufacturing platform designed to enhance the structural and sensory qualities of alternative protein products. The technology, called AMS (Adaptive Multilayer System), departs from traditional meat analog processing techniques, offering a method that allows for more complex composition and presentation. The AMS system uses a multi-directional dosing tool guided by advanced software, which lets producers control things like movement, speed, and output with precision. This makes it possible to create plant-based foods that have varied textures and layers of different ingredients in a single product, improving how the food looks, feels, and tastes. Cocuus CEO Miguel Arbeloa explained, “Most of the technologies used for plant-based products are based in meat industry procedures or extrusion. This is something …

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Printed Technology

Spain’s Cocuus Plans to Produce 1,000 Tonnes of 3D Printed Plant-Based Bacon in 2024

Cocuus, a Spanish food tech company producing 3D-printed plant-based foods at scale, has revealed an ambitious goal for 2024: to make 1,000 tonnes of 3D-printed plant-based bacon. With the global alternative proteins market expected to reach a minimum value of $290 billion by 2035, according to BCG and the Blue Horizon Corporation, the company aims to accelerate the production of 3D-printed plant-based bacon for distribution in retail and other channels. Early investors Cargill and Big Idea Ventures will support the food tech’s mass production of plant-based food.  Last year, Cocuus and partner company Foody’s opened what they claimed as the world’s first industrial-scale facility for 3D-printed plant-based meat in Northern Spain, equipped with Cocuus’ advanced printing technology: only one machine can produce 250 kilos of plant-based …

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3d bioprinted bacon launches at Carrefour

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Printed Technology

Carrefour Spain Introduces “Clearly Superior” 3D Bio-Printed Plant-Based Bacon at Almost Same Price as Original

This May, two Spanish companies based in Navarra — Cocuus and Foodys — joined forces to market products made on an industrial scale from 3D bio-printed plant-based foods. This week, the first output of this alliance is already a reality: 100% vegetable bacon, which from this month will be on all Carrefour’s shelves in Spain. Together, Foodys and Cocuus are developing new plant-based and sustainable foods, along with the necessary technology to produce them and their subsequent industrialisation at scale and commercialisation. All under the umbrella of a technology they have called “Food to Data, Data to Food”, which was created with the aim of developing, producing and marketing healthy, tasty and sustainable food for this and future generations. The first of these advances to …

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Tripe use in a Spanish dish calles 'callos'

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Printed Technology

Foody’s and Cocuus Join Traditions with 3D-Printed Plant-Based Tripe

Food tech companies from Navarra, Spain — Foody’s and Cocuus, — leaders in plant-based food 3D bioprinting, have developed an unusual meat analog with hydrogels and printing tech: the first 3D bioprinted plant-based tripe in the world. Tripe, the edible lining from the stomachs of cows or pigs, is the main ingredient of a traditional and popular Spanish stewed dish called callos.  Recreating emblematic dishes sustainably and ethically, such as the plant-based tripe, indicates that technology and traditions are not at odds, argues Cocuus, which unveiled its NPD at the company’s San Fermín lunch — a historically rooted celebration held annually in the city of Pamplona, where people chase running bulls and eat traditional meat dishes. “We believe that technology is not at odds with tradition, so through a …

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Foody's and Cocuus to launch bioprinted bacon

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Printed Technology

Foody’s & Cocuus Launch the World’s First Industrial-Scale 3D Bioprinting Facility for Plant-Based Meat

Foody’s and Cocuus, two food tech companies from Navarra, Spain, have signed an agreement to produce and commercialize 3D-printed plant-based foods, starting with bacon. Through the alliance, Foody’s will be responsible for industrializing and marketing Cocuus’s 3D bioprinted alt meat under the Foody’s & Cocuus brand. Last March, the first of a series of 3D bioprinters developed by Cocuus was installed at the Foody’s facilities in Tudela. It will be the world’s first industrial-scale plant-based food bioprinting plant, making Navarra the spearhead of this novel technology, reports local publication Diario de Navarra. “Undoubtedly, this is a technology that will forever change the way we produce healthy, tasty, and sustainable food for the world at scale. It aspires to revolutionize food science through disruptive solutions for …

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Foody's and Cocuus to launch bioprinted bacon

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Printed Technology

3D Bioprinting Startup Cocuus Raises €2.5M in Pre-Series A Featuring Meat Giant Cargill 

Spanish startup Cocuus has raised €2.5 million in its Pre Series A funding round to scale its 3D bioprinting technology for the production of alternative proteins. Cargill Ventures, the investment arm of the multinational meat giant Cargill, has backed the round to accelerate Cocuus’s process for producing plant or cell-based animal protein food analogs. The Pre Series A funding round was also led by Big Idea Ventures, Eatable Adventures, and Tech Transfer UPV, after Cocuus had completed Eatable Adventures’ acceleration program, one of the top global accelerators for food tech startups. Navarra-based Cocuus now aims to scale its business model and expand into other international markets, enabling it to utilize its disruptive 3D bioprinting and robotics technologies Spanish startup Cocuus claims it can print cutlets, …

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Printed Technology

Spain’s Cocuus, 3D Printers of Lamb Ribs & Cutlets, Named Among Top 10 Innovations of 2021

Spanish startup Cocuus, which claims it can now print cutlets, bacon, lamb ribs, and salmon at a rate of 8 kilograms per minute, without the slaughter of any animals, has made StartUs insights’ list of “Top 10 Food Technology Trends and Innovations 2021”. Last month, in a post on its website, the startup said that “in half a dozen images, COO and founder of Cocuus System Ibérica, Patxi Larumbe, showed the Cizur Menor-based firm’s 3D bioprinted cutlets, made from meat cells grown in a bioreactor and which the company can print “on an industrial scale.” “Specifically, at a speed of 8 kilograms per minute. “This project, on which we are working together with the National Centre for Food Technology and Safety (CNTA), is a pioneer …

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Fairs & Events

Spain FoodTech Presents First Accelerator Cohort for Alt Protein Startups in Spain

Tomorrow, Tuesday June 8th (17:30 CET) sees the virtual demo day for Spain FoodTech Startup’s Program introducing its first cohort of agrifood tech startups. The program is the first accelerator for high-performance Spanish startups and features next-gen companies working in the exploding alt protein sector. 

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