Fermentation — Precision companies in Europe
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- Multus Biotechnology
United Kingdom — London
Alt-protein — Cultivated meat scaffolds / Fermentation — Precision
London cell media for cultivated meat.
- NEBIH
Hungary — Budapest
Fermentation — Precision / Ingredients — Vitamins
National Food Chain Safety Office (NÉBIH) food testing and pilot.
- NIZO food research BV
Netherlands — Ede
Fermentation — Lactic acid bacteria / Fermentation — Biomass / Fermentation — Precision / Drying — Spray drying / Separation — Protein extraction / Ingredients — Cultures / Ingredients — Enzymes
Europe's largest open-access food-grade pilot plant. Offers explicit toll manufacturing services in spray drying, fermentation and downstream processing; produces lactic acid for dsm-firmenich. Hosts the Biotechnology Fermentation Factory (BFF) and the NoPalm demo factory.
- NoPalm Ingredients BV
Netherlands — Wageningen
Fermentation — Precision / Oils & fats — Specialty fats / Oils & fats — Edible oils (refined, virgin, organic)
Yeast-oil precision fermentation specialist producing palm-oil alternatives. Operates a Demo Factory at NIZO's Food Innovation Campus, with first industrial production targeted for H2 2026.
- Novonesis
Denmark — Bagsvaerd
Ingredients — Enzymes / Ingredients — Cultures / Fermentation — Precision
World #1 enzymes and cultures producer (formed by 2024 Novozymes + Chr. Hansen merger) HQ in Bagsværd with sites in Hørsholm, Aarhus and Copenhagen.
- NPPC VUP Bratislava
Slovakia — Bratislava
Fermentation — Precision / Ingredients — Vitamins
NPPC VÚP Bratislava Slovak food research institute.
- NTNU Foods of Norway
Norway — Trondheim
Alt-protein — Mycoprotein / Fermentation — Precision
NTNU Trondheim academic alt-protein research and pilot.
- Paleo (Paleo Biotech)
Belgium — Belgium
Fermentation — Precision / Alt-protein — Precision-fermentation proteins (BLG, casein, lactoferrin, ovalbumin, heme)
Belgian biotech start-up developing animal-free heme analogues via precision fermentation.
- Pharma73
Portugal — Portugal
Fermentation — Precision / Fermentation — Biomass / Supplements — Capsules
Fermentation-based Chitin-Glucan Complex producer scaling to 4 m³ fermenters with biomass fermentation contract capacity.
- Politechnika Lodzka
Poland — Lodz
Fermentation — Precision / Fermentation — Biomass
Łódź University of Technology pilot bioreactor and fermentation hall.
- Probi
Sweden — Lund
Ingredients — Cultures / Supplements — Capsules / Fermentation — Precision
Listed Lund probiotics CDMO known for the LP299V strain.
- Quadram Institute Bioscience
United Kingdom — Norwich
Fermentation — Precision / Ingredients — Cultures
Norwich gut microbiome and food safety research institute.
- Queen Margaret University Food Research
United Kingdom — Edinburgh
Fermentation — Precision
Queen Margaret Edinburgh food research.
- Queens University Belfast Food Pilot
United Kingdom — Belfast
Fermentation — Precision / Ingredients — Vitamins
QUB Institute for Global Food Security and Food Pilot.
- RISE
Sweden — Lund
Drying — Spray drying / Extrusion — Twin-screw / Fermentation — Precision
Research Institutes of Sweden national institute across Lund, Göteborg and Borås with multiple food pilot lines (extrusion, drying, fermentation).
- Salzburg Research
Austria — Salzburg
Fermentation — Precision / Ingredients — Vitamins
Salzburg Research / AIT pilot lines and biotech.
- SLU Uppsala
Sweden — Uppsala
Ingredients — Native & modified starches / Fermentation — Precision
SLU Uppsala academic food pilot incl. CRISPR potato (SolEdits/Lyckeby).
- Standing Ovation
France — Paris
Fermentation — Precision / Alt-protein — Mycoprotein / Dairy — Plant-based cheese
Pre-commercial precision-fermentation specialist (since 2020) producing recombinant casein for alt-dairy.
- STU Bratislava
Slovakia — Bratislava
Fermentation — Precision / Ingredients — Vitamins
STU Bratislava Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology pilot food technology.
- Suanfarma Nutraceutical
Spain — Tres Cantos
Fermentation — Precision / Supplements — Capsules / Dry — Dry blending
CDMO of dietary supplements, nutraceuticals and fermented APIs with toll fermentation, blending and encapsulation.
- Teagasc Moorepark
Ireland — Fermoy
Dairy — Whey ingredients (WPC, WPI, hydrolysates) / Drying — Spray drying / Fermentation — Precision
Fermoy Cork 1959 Teagasc dairy R&D centre — largest in Europe.
- Tecnoalimenti
Italy — Milano
Drying — Spray drying / Fermentation — Precision
Food technology consortium for public-private R&D.
- TFTAK
Estonia — Tallinn
Fermentation — Precision / Fermentation — Lactic acid bacteria / Ingredients — Cultures
Tallinn University of Technology Centre of Food and Fermentation Technologies. Pilot-scale R&D contract food and fermentation; non-profit competence centre.
- The Cultivated B GmbH
Germany — Heidelberg
Fermentation — Precision / Fermentation — Biomass / Alt-protein — Cultivated meat scaffolds / Meat & seafood — Plant-based meat analogues
Cultivated meat tools, bioreactors and plant-based B2B specialist (since 2022, InFamily Foods).
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- Ingredients — Enzymes (3)
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- Supplements — Capsules (3)
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- Separation — Protein extraction (2)
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