Thai insect producer Flylab produces BSF insect meal with a 60-65% minimum of protein and plans to close the series A round in April.
How production costs and final insect meal prices can be reduced to allow a more rapid scale-up and wide use, especially in aquafeeds?
In the third part of the series, we discuss how the feed companies face the new year and the turbulent times.
Ingredients suppliers uncover some of the trends and challenges that will shape the aquafeed industry next year.
As one of the key part of the aquafeed mill, many of the solutions on how to weather 2023 relies on technology suppliers.
The formulation of fish diets can become more precise with the introduction of net energy values. Aquafeed.com talked to Johan Schrama from Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands, who actively partnered with the industry to accelerate the understanding and application of this energy evaluation system for fish.
Cesar Molina, general manager of Aquaculture Innovation Guayas Research Station, said in a recent interview what the company’s plans are at this center.
The company highlights that the establishment of the shrimp feed facility in Honduras five years ago leaves a positive balance in the region since it has stimulated competitiveness in various ways.
Swiss-based aQuaTox-Solutions has been developing cell-based tests to replace animal experiments with great potential for fish feed trials.
Despite the improved performance, the winner Star Milling Co. said that utilizing terrestrial animal proteins and fats could reduce feed costs to be more competitive with conventional trout diets.
Fatide Biotech Co., Ltd. developed a cost-effective feed that improves the feed manufacturing process and has no impact on the final fillet quality.
Shrimp category winner Empagran found no major differences in its vegetarian diets compared to commercial diets and pointed to price as the real challenge.
String Bio has built a deep technology platform for producing a protein ingredient from greenhouse gases that is scalable and competitive in terms of quality and price, the company told us in a recent interview.
BioFeyn is applying technology developed for human biomedicine that encapsulates aquafeed additives in a biodegradable shell that is easily absorbed by fish.
Aller Aqua’s quest is to make fish feed formulations more sustainable and this includes the search for high protein alternative feed ingredients. Protein from grass could be the next thing. Henrik T. Halken explains how this fits in the company’s sustainability journey.
“The great thing about our process, particularly compared to other novel protein sources, is that we do not foresee being limited by any of our input,” the company said in a recent interview.
The startup is developing technologies enabling scalable and sustainable farming of marine zooplankton, on land, using agricultural byproducts, to produce marine ingredients for aquafeeds.
“The intention is to leverage the strong innovation platform of Wenger within aquafeed and continue to offer best-in-class solutions to the market,” Marel told us in a recent interview.
In a recent interview, Organicin Scientific shared with us how the startup is developing bacteriocins to prevent disease and gut dysbiosis and reduce the need for antibiotics in aquaculture.
We have to stop searching for single magic bullet ingredients to replace fishmeal, but rather apply flexible formulation, utilizing all the raw materials we have available. Combined with precision nutrition and life cycle assessment tools, we can also do this in a more sustainable way.
