Tilapia processing waste may provide an alternative and less expensive protein source to use in place of fishmeal in shrimp feeds while supporting shrimp production, Brazilian researchers say.
Unibio is partnering with Core Protein to establish a methane-to-protein production facility in Texas to supply the US and international feed markets with single cell protein.
Ahead of the anticipated sanctioning of insects in poultry feed by the EU later this year, Wageningen University is leading a four-year multi-stakeholder project investigating the viability of insects as a sustainable feed source.
A yeast biomass based on CO2 and other non-fossil resources could be commercially available by early 2021, giving the feed industry a ‘carbon-neutral’ protein source.
Biotechnology company, Arbiom, has provided additional details on results from fish feed and functionality trials of its wood-to-food protein ingredient, branded as SylPro, while another SCP player gets US federal funding to optimize its fermentation...
Single cell protein (SCP) producer, Unibio, said it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the General Investment Authority of Saudi Arabia (SAGIA) to initiate a project to produce feed proteins from methane gas in that market.
A new report recommends the introduction of E10, petrol containing up to 10% ethanol, in Ireland’s fuel mix. The study also discusses the potential for domestic production of ethanol and DDGS, the feed co-product.
Protein rich co-products of pea gin production could be a substitute for soybean meal in animal feed, found a research team based across several universities in Wales, Scotland and Ireland as well as in a distillery.
There has been plenty of buzz about single cell proteins for use in animal feed over the past few weeks. FeedNavigator trains its spotlight on the trend.
Prairie AquaTech earns international recognition for innovation with its aquafeed ingredient, which has been linked to reductions in phosphorus excretion.
Replacing some fishmeal and oil use with algae meal may boost the weight gain of carnivorous fish and alter fish fatty acid profiles while supporting fish survival, say researchers.
UK start-up, Deep Branch Biotechnology, has completed validation work on its technology that converts carbon dioxide into a single cell protein for use in fish and monogastric feed.
A paper detailing the research done into alternative processes for the production of expeller soybean meal (SBM) from European grown soybeans and trials done in broilers in the UK has just been published.
The European Commission today [May 20] published a revised EU Feed Protein Balance Sheet, which it said provides a comprehensive overview of EU feed supply.
Swedish researchers looked at feeding a novel feed resource, Lepidium cake (LC), to grower pigs, saw that it was a palatable feed, and that it did not seem to cause the animals any detrimental health effect.
Danish methane to feed protein company, Unibio, by invitation of the UNDP, has joined the SDG Accelerator program, an initiative aimed at fast tracking the private sectors impact on the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
A Netherlands focused public private partnership involving representatives of the academic, rendering and feed industries is looking at boosting the percentage of European raw materials in feed formulations, towards the goal of a circular bio-economy....
TerViva is planting pongamia trees and developing a process to remove bitterness as part of its effort to produce and generate an alternative protein for use in animal feed, says senior VP.
The Norwegian authorities have decided to allow the commercial harvesting of the zooplankter, Calanus finmarchicus, setting a quota at 254,000 tons per year.
A former Wales-based fish feed producer admitted misusing up to £4.7m ($6.11m) in grant funding in a now-closed feed production and research operation.
The findings of a new study suggest that a novel production process can efficiently concentrate proteins from complex bone-rich fish by-products and produce a pure protein ingredient for aquaculture diets.
Entobel, a biotech company specialized in insect-derived feed protein, with production activities based in Vietnam since 2013, has raised €1m (US$1.13m) in funding, and its first commercial production plant is just about to go live.
Researchers based at Aarhus University in Foulum, Denmark are optimistic they can partially replace traditional protein ingredients like soy with clover grass in organic pig feed.
Brussels based, International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed (IPIFF), has just unveiled a guidance document on the best practices in quality and hygienic insect production
Black Soldier Fly (BSF) derived protein and single cell proteins from bacterial sources are two products nominated by an expert group as having potential in terms of new feed inputs for pigs and poultry.
Portuguese start-up, EntoGreen, says construction will begin on its first commercial scale black soldier fly (BSF) derived feed protein facility at the end of this year. The company was established in 2014.
Calysta, a manufacturer of fish and animal protein feed products using methane conversion technology, has made it onto a roll-call of leading companies involved in sustainable innovation, the Global Cleantech 100.
Arbiom, a developer of non-food biomass processing technology, announced last month that it had successfully produced tonnage quantities of its high protein feed ingredient derived from wood at a combined 80,000-L industrial fermentation scale, with partners...
In an effort to address increasing feed manufacturer interest, EnviroFlight, a joint venture of Intrexon and Darling Ingredients, opened a new production facility at the end of 2018 in Maysville, Kentucky.
SweetPro Feeds is expanding its product line with a dried, high protein and fiber fermented feed ingredient after buying and refurbishing a new drying facility.
In late 2017, we reported on an Irish project, Newtrients, involving the capture of essential nutrients from dairy processing wastewater to grow duckweed as a novel feed protein. Some 13 months on, we hear from the project leader as to the targets met...
Pizzeria by-product may support tilapia growth and development while lowering feed costs for producers using biofloc production systems, say researchers.
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has recently revealed it is aiming to bring plant ingredients within its Feed Standard, through the development and adoption of assessment tools for traceability and sustainability, in an approach similar to that...
White Dog Labs is locating its upcoming commercial-scale production facility for its alternative feed ingredient derived from single-cell proteins in Nebraska, says CEO.
Danish company, ENORM, has been awarded a grant from the government to establish the country’s first industrial insect production site, based on the Black Soldier Fly (BSF) .
Auchan supermarket in France is now selling own label insect fed trout in 52 of its stores in the North of France region with the objective of extending the initiative to all its supermarkets in France by the end of 2019.
KnipBio’s single-cell protein feed ingredient may allow farmed trout to meet or exceed growth and feed conversion rates set using other alternative proteins or fishmeal.
Aarhus University’s Knud-Erik Bach Knudsen, leader of the work package on alternative protein feed ingredients and real-time characterization under the Horizon 2020 backed Feed-a-Gene project, was presenting on achievements to date of that work at EuroTier...
High value protein derived from grass biomass shows the most potential for replacing protein imports like soybean meal for Danish farmed animal production, finds a review.
Protelux has completed the construction of a 6,000 ton per year methane to feed protein plant in Russia, based on technology from Danish company, Unibio.
