NEWS 76 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE July 2022 Spain-based natural ingredients manufacturer Natac has opened a new office in Singapore to expand its sales, logistics and commercial operations into the Asia Pacific region and locally serve APAC customers. This investment into Singapore area and larger APAC region is with the aim of helping Natac meet the requirements of current and future client companies. “The new office is staffed with trained personnel from the area, who can help with all kinds of natural product requirements. Moreover, our APAC office will largely focus on the commercial activities of sales and logistics, with clients benefiting from liaising with staff using native language, understanding the customs and sharing the same time zone,” the company said in a statement. Additionally, Natac will be exhibiting at VitaFoods Asia in Bangkok, Thailand this October, a further demonstration of our investment to serve APAC companies with quality natural product extracts for their pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, animal nutrition and cosmetic requirements. Natac opens new Singapore office for APAC customers Bühler, ZETA establish food and feed bioprocessing joint venture Eridia Swiss Bühler Group announced the formation of a new joint venture with Austrian pharmaceutical and biotechnology company ZETA. The new company, Eridia, will engineer food and feed biotechnology plants primarily in the fields of precision fermentation and cellular agriculture. Eridia is a 50/50 joint venture, which will enable Bühler and ZETA to contribute further to the field of precision fermentation as well as to the newer field of cellular agriculture. The new company will have its headquarters in Leobendorf, Austria, but also leverage the Bühler innovation campus in Uzwil, Switzerland. Erika Georget, Head of Bioprocessing at Bühler, and Claudia Neuhold, Business Development Food and Biotech at ZETA, will join the managing team of Eridia. Precision fermentation uses microorganisms as cell factories to efficiently produce valuable nutrients and functional ingredients such as proteins, omega-3 rich oils, or natural pigments. Developed further, it can also be used to recreate animal products such as meat or fish. This new field of cellular agriculture can help alleviate the pressure on ecosystems by reducing the impact of food and feed production on arable land, biodiversity, and greenhouse gas emissions. With cellular agriculture, meat products can be cultivated that are identical in structure and taste to the animal counterpart without raising animals. Bühler Group and ZETA announced the formation of Eridia, a 50/50 joint venture that will develop solutions to meet the rising global demand for food and feed while reducing the impact on the environment.
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