Category Archives: Food

Sharing the Steel: What The Every Company and ADM Are Quietly Teaching Us About Scale-Up

By | July 29, 2026

The Every Company’s decision to manufacture its recombinant egg white protein OvoPro at ADM’s Clinton, Iowa facility, alongside existing capacity at Huvepharma’s Bulgarian subsidiary Biovet, illustrates a shift in how precision fermentation companies approach commercial scale-up. Rather than building proprietary plants, co-manufacturing allows capital to remain available for strain engineering and product development. The approach… Read More: Sharing the Steel: What The Every Company and ADM Are… »

A Tonne of Duck in One Run: What Parima and Vow Actually Proved

By | July 18, 2026

The headlines led with a 22,000-litre tank and a 99% cost drop. Here is a bioreactor engineer’s read on what Parima and Vow actually proved, why the media breakthrough matters more than the vessel, and the quiet shift that turned cultivated meat into a fermentation problem.

When the Steel Outlives the Startup: Inside UPSIDE’s $50M Bid for Believer Meats

By | June 19, 2026

UPSIDE Foods has bid $50 million for Believer Meats’ North Carolina plant. The interesting question isn’t the price — it’s which parts of a dead cultivated-meat company are actually worth buying: the steel, the biology, or the process intelligence.

The Ovalbumin Patent Fight and What It Tells Us About Where Precision Fermentation Is Going

By | May 22, 2026

The Every Company and Onego Bio are now fighting over recombinant ovalbumin in courts on two continents. The way this case resolves will shape how broadly IP rights can be enforced in precision fermentation, and what that means for the rest of us building this industry.