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Pilgrim’s Europe has opened a new Pork Centre of Excellence at its Bromborough, UK site, marking a £350,000 investment aimed at accelerating product development and strengthening innovation across its pork division.

Italian start-up Foreverland has raised €6 million in funding to support the international expansion of its cocoa-free chocolate alternative, Choruba.

Eternal.Ag has raised €8 million in fresh funding to accelerate the development and deployment of its AI-powered autonomous harvesting robots.

FrieslandCampina Ingredients has completed a major investment at its Borculo facility in the Netherlands.

The Source Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Spadel Group, has announced an investment in UK-based beverage brand Living Things.

Shinkei Systems is scaling its operations in the Pacific Northwest with the acquisition of a seafood processing facility in Washington.

Amyris has completed construction of a new production line at its flagship precision fermentation facility in Barra Bonita, Brazil.

GEA is expanding its digital dairy farming capabilities with the opening of a new software lab in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

DSM-Firmenich has completed a $10 million upgrade of its premix facility in Schenectady, New York.

Bel Group has broken ground on a $200 million expansion of its Babybel production facility in Brookings, South Dakota.

Amcor has expanded its flexible packaging operations in northern Italy with a new production line dedicated to high-barrier, recycle-ready films

Meiji America has announced a $65 million investment to expand its manufacturing capabilities by adding production of Hello Panda cookies to its facility in York, Pennsylvania, US.