Lesaffre Acquires a Majority Stake in Biorigin to Strengthen and Broaden its Savory Ingredients Offering

October 7, 2024 Lesaffre

The aim of this deal is to leverage Lesaffre’s and Biorigin’s complementary capabilities to enable enhanced yeast derivative and savory ingredient solutions for customers worldwide. The business combination between Lesaffre and Biorigin will offer customers benefits by upgrading production capacity and new solutions based on the production and marketing of naturally derived ingredients for human food and animal nutrition industries.

Paving the Way to Making Stretchy, Protein-Rich, Dairy Cheese – Cow-Free

September 25, 2024 DairyX, Ltd.

DairyX Foods Ltd. announces a major advancement in creating authentic milk proteins without cows, using precision fermentation. The food-tech start-up has developed a method to produce casein proteins that can self-assemble into micelles. Micelles are the primary building blocks of dairy products, such as cheese and yogurt. 

Danone, DMC, Michelin and Crédit Agricole Centre France Join Forces to Create a Cutting-Edge Biotechnology Platform

June 27, 2024 Danone

Two major French industrial leaders Danone and Michelin, the American start-up DMC Biotechnologies and Crédit Agricole Centre France, a key investor in the region, have agreed to create the Biotech Open Platform to bolster the development of advanced fermentation processes, particularly precision fermentation, on a larger scale. Precision fermentation is a revolutionary biotechnological process to produce bio-based materials and ingredients.

The Micro-Revolution of Precision Fermentation Can Change the Entire Food Industry

Let’s take a closer look at this fascinating process and find out what possibilities it has in store for not just the bakery and patisserie world, but the food industry as a whole.

Lesaffre Reinforces its Presence in Savory Ingredients Market by Acquiring DSM-Firmenich’s Yeast Extract Business

June 12, 2024 Lesaffre

Lesaffre and dsm-firmenich have reached agreement for a multi-part collaboration in yeast derivatives serving the savory ingredients space. Lesaffre will acquire dsm firmenich’s yeast extract go-to-market organization and know-how, enabling production of dsm-firmenich’s yeast extract products in Lesaffre’s global manufacturing network.