NEWS Alternative Proteins Magazine April 2025 7 Packaged Feeds and FreezeM partner for zero-waste BSF farming Packaged Feeds, one of the leaders in innovative food waste-to-resource solutions, partnered with FreezeM to integrate the company’s Breeding-asa-Service technology into its Black Soldier Fly (BSF) operations. By selecting FreezeM’s PauseM® product, Packaged Feeds underscores the unmatched operational efficiency and protein quality that PauseM® delivers, validated through extensive field pilot testing, according to the announcement. FreezeM stated that PauseM®, its flagship product, contains suspended BSF neonates with a 14day shelf life, eliminating the need for in-house BSF breeding. This synergy with Packaged Feeds’ advanced rearing technology establishes a scalable, high performance insect farming process, driving the company’s transition from proof-of-concept to large-scale operations. FreezeM will initially supply PauseM® from its state-of-the-art facility in Germany, ensuring seamless integration and robust support as Packaged Feeds scales its efforts. Building on its expertise in organic surplus co-product solutions, Packaged Feeds has successfully developed a pioneering BSF rearing and processing technology based on proprietary modular rearing units that can be rapidly deployed near organic co-product sources. These modular insect bioconversion farms provide efficient, scalable and adaptable solutions tailored to diverse operational setups. In 2025, Packaged Feeds explained it is planning to deploy its first production site, with the capacity of treating 15,000+ tons/organic surplus co-products per year. By the end of 2026 the company expects to operate 6 such sites in the UK, treating over 100,000 tons of surplus co-products/year. Read more>> Bühler makes new collaboration for cultivated meat Food-tech innovator Ever After Foods (EAF) and Swiss technology group Bühler announced an expansive cultivated meat collaboration to help food producers around the globe produce cultivated meat efficiently at mass scale. Bühler and Ever After Foods will work together to bring a commercial-scale cultivated meat production system, which is expected to allow commercial production at ten-fold lower scale than existing technologies, to market. Bühler aims to foster the development of equipment to enable market-ready, sustainable, healthy, and affordable cellular products that can address increasingly complex food system challenges, reduce environmental impact and improve food security. Ever After Foods provides the technology to deliver commercial-scale production systems specifically designed to meet the needs of the cultivated meat sector. “The global food chain faces significant challenges if we are to successfully and sustainably feed our growing population. How we produce and consume protein will continue to change, and requires a transition of our protein system to deliver this. Powering cultivated meat production at scale with a patented production system, Ever After Foods will help the food industry keep pace with the protein demands of a growing global population,” noted Ian Roberts, CTO at Bühler. Read more>>
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