Chemical Engineering April 2023 - 15

group combines the company's full range of food-andbeverage
ingredients, expertise and science-based solutions
that improve the taste and texture of foods.
DSM is taking strategic steps in developing specialty
proteins, including CanolaPRO - a sustainable, plantbased
protein source from the canola (rapeseed) plant
that improves vegan and vegetarian products. DSM's
recent acquisition of Vestkorn Milling, a supplier of peaand
bean-derived proteins, starches and dietary fibers,
will also complement and further accelerate this growth.
Just last year, DSM announced the launch of several
new products, including a next-generation cheese;
Delvo Plant Go, oat-based dairy alternatives; Delvo
One, its first " all-in-one cultures " for fermented milk;
Vertis Canolapro, a plant-based protein, and what DSM
says is the world's first textured vegetable protein that
is a complete protein, soy-free and gluten-free.
Meanwhile, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM; Chicago, Ill.;
www.adm.com) signed a joint-venture (JV) agreement
last month with Marel (Garðabær, Iceland; www.marel.
com), a leading provider of advanced food-processing
solutions, to build an innovation center in the heart of
the Netherlands food valley at the Wageningen Campus.
Subject to regulatory approvals, the center is anticipated
to open in the second half of 2024. The innovation center
is designed for food manufacturers to work alongside
food scientists, extrusion experts and culinary professionals
to prototype, manufacture and market new alternative
protein products, as well as leverage pilot-plant
production with novel processing techniques.
ADM also opened a new extrusion facility in Serbia
last September, and invested $300 million to expand
its Decatur, Ill. alternative-protein production, as well as
open a new Protein Innovation Center.
Precision fermentation
ADM also formed a strategic partnership with New
Culture (San Leandro, Calif.; www.newculture.com)
last fall to scale up and commercialize alternative dairy
products. New Culture uses precision fermentation to
produce casein, which can then be made into cheese.
Animal-free mozzarella is being introduced to U.S. pizzerias
this year.
In another collaboration, ADM and the Asia Sustainable
Foods Platform recently started their JV company,
ScaleUp Bio - said to be the first company in Singapore
to provide contract-development and manufacturing-organization
services for precision fermentation
for food applications.
ScaleUp Bio entered a multi-year partnership with
A*Star's Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology
Innovation to establish a joint laboratory, scheduled to
be operational this year. It will provide startups with fermenters
that can support 100 L in capacity, associated
downstream processing units and analytical equipment
for process optimization. Startups can then transition
to ScaleUp Bio's new facility, scheduled to be operational
mid-2023, to support 10,000-L capacity.
Last month, Cargill (Minneapolis, Minn.; www.cargill.com)
and startup company Cubiq Foods (www.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING WWW.CHEMENGONLINE.COM
For details visit adlinks.chemengonline.com/84646-06
http://adlinks.chemengonline.com/84646-06 http://www.adm.com http://www.marel.com http://www.marel.com http://www.newculture.com http://www.cargill.com http://www.cargill.com http://WWW.CHEMENGONLINE.COM
Chemical Engineering April 2023

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Chemical Engineering April 2023
