Our co-founder and CEO Thomas Schmidt was on stage last week for the tenth edition of Gulfood Manufacturing FoodTech Summit in Dubai.
With his extensive expertise, Thomas was invited to join the panel discussion, ‘Exploring Innovations and Investments in Alternative Proteins’, where he shared valuable insights and guidance.
Here are some takeaways:
🌍 The world needs a sustainable way to feed the growing and ageing population: the UN warns us that this means doubling our food – and protein – production. Conventional agriculture will not be able to keep up with this demand, but precision fermentation can help close this protein gap. Precision fermentation can power food resilience and self-sufficiency, especially significant for Middle Eastern countries with limited arable land and water supply.
📈 For this, we need the technology to get to industrial scale. Three parameters are key to scale biomanufacturing: demand, strains, and scale. The demand is here for certain. Few strains can thrive in large-scale fermentation environments and produce large quantities of product: 21st.BIO offers experience. To scale, we will need to build mega facilities dedicated to protein production.
🥛 Not all proteins are created equal. With the best nutritional profile and functionalities, we’ve trained our microbes to produce milk proteins in their purest form. No lactose, antibiotics, cholesterol, or fat – just pure protein.
🌟 BLG essential+™ is easy to include in all types of products, from alternative or hybrid dairy products, sports food and clear beverages, to tailored nutritional solutions for seniors or patients under GLP-1 medication.
🥇 21st.BIO develops the most advanced strains, which can remain proficient in large-scale fermentation – inherited out of a license from Novonesis. Working with the best strain, fermentation and biomanufacturing experts, we support customers with proteins for nutrition and food, but also agriculture, biomaterials, and even biomining. Our long track of experience considerably derisks product development.
That’s what we offer at 21st.BIO: industrially proven production technology for high-quality proteins.
