Insects Feed
AgriProtein: 17,5 mln dollars injected in the insects-feed industry
A short talk with Jason Drew, AgriProtein founder AgriProtein has just received a 17.5 mln dollars financing. What’s this funding for? This is to roll out support centers to help our clients, build an additional wholly-owned site and to expand and improve the engineering and capacity at our existing site. You’re planning to expand in […]
IPIFF: a task-force dedicated to insects as Novel Food
Interview with Antoine Hubert, Ceo of Ynsect and IPIFF President Tell us shortly about the vision you had and how that vision led to Ynsect Ynsect is an innovative company which is specialized in farming insects on a large scale and converting them into different compounds. These compounds, which are mainly proteins and lipids meet […]
Bühler: producing and processing larvae in China
A short talk with Andreas Baumann (Expert Protein Value Chain), Bühler AG Recently you’ve started an insect pilot-plant in China, can you tell us more about? We set up the pilot plant with a partner, who grows fly larvae. We installed equipment for processing the fully grown larvae on an industrial scale. The aim is […]
Protix: ingredients market is picking up fast
Interview with Kees Aarts, founder and CEO of Protix Tell us shortly about how you get involved in the edible insects world and how the Protix project began When I was young I was already breeding insect and feeder animals for my reptiles and birds. I even did a ‘backyard safari’ several times to collect […]
