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M2 Ingredients, a vertically integrated functional mushroom grower based in California, US, is set to open its new M2 Center of Innovation next month – an advanced R&D lab designed to accelerate functional mushroom product development.

Bactolife, a start-up based in Copenhagen, Denmark, has raised over €30 million in Series B funding to accelerate the commercialisation of its precision-fermented Binding Proteins innovation.

Ingredients specialist IMCD has officially reopened its modernised Food & Nutrition application laboratory in Cologne, Germany.

Danish industrial biotech company EvodiaBio has raised €6 million in a new funding round to accelerate expansion across European, North American and Asian markets, as well as to broaden applications of its fermentation-based aroma technology within the beverage sector.

ADM has announced a three-year extension of its partnership with Bayer to support soybean farmers in Maharashtra, India.

The Cultured Hub, a scale-up facility established through a joint venture between Bühler, Migros and Givaudan, has expanded its services with the addition of plant cell culturing capabilities.

Nexture has acquired Sipral Padana, an Italian company specialising in value-added semi-finished ingredients.

Swiss food ingredient start-up Yeastup has officially opened its first industrial-scale production facility, marking a significant milestone in the commercialisation of brewer’s yeast-derived proteins and fibres.

FoodBev meets the innovators transforming starch science, pulse power and coating creativity into the future of crunch.

At Food Ingredients Europe 2025, FoodBev spoke to Laurentia Bliss, director of brand development for Threotech, about the company's brain-boosting Magtein nutraceutical ingredient.

ICL has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Bartek Ingredients, a global supplier of food-grade malic and fumaric acid used across food, beverage, confectionery and bakery applications.

The Good Food Institute Europe has welcomed the European Commission’s new Biotech Act, but said it marks a ‘missed opportunity’ for food innovation due to its exclusion of novel foods from its regulatory sandbox scheme.