Last week, in cooperation with the BOM and the Province of Noord-Brabant, we held our exclusive TPC event Accelerating fermentation. For the first time, we broadcasted our event live from a brewery: The Protein Brewery in Breda. The aim of the event was to explore the vast possibilities of fermentation. At the event, we heard from leading companies and food producers about the latest fermentation techniques, flavours and innovations. Together, we discovered the science behind fermentation and learned how to start and grow our business. 

A quick selection of quotes from some of the inspiring speakers: 

Bart Smit of FerMentor; “Knowing that there are so many amazing microbes, which can be applied to so many substrates in a range of processes; you can imagine that the solution space for fermentation experts to work with, is huge, giving many opportunities.”

Marieke Smidt of Duplaco: “The good news with fermentation is that we harvest every day. We are not dependent on weather conditions, climate conditions, we don’t have to put our production site on agricultural land. With very little space, we can produce a serious amount of algae and therefore also a serious amount of protein. And we can do that on a daily basis!”

What’s next?

Our next TPC event will be held on 16 June, 2022 on redefining the protein industry. Please keep 16 June free in your calendar. More information will follow.

Are you not a TPC partner but interested in becoming one and participate in our network and events? Please contact us.

The Protein Cluster, an initiative of Foodvalley NL, is now called The Protein Community. Together with a renewed look of the website and brand style, the new name will ensure a more relevant positioning of Foodvalley NL. With the name change, Foodvalley NL wants to focus on the active involvement of TPC.

“With this new name we emphasize that the only way to keep up with accelerating the Protein Shift is to work as a community. To deliver innovative protein solutions to serve consumers around the world. By calling our network a community, we make it clearer to our members and beyond who we are, what we do and what we want,” says Innovation Lead, Jeroen Willemsen. “It is important to clearly communicate that the basis of TPC is to maximally use our combined experience, creativity, facilities and networks.”

Partner up and find inspiration in The Protein Community

The Protein Community (TPC) is the biggest protein community from The Netherlands. Worldwide, they have more than 100 TPC partners. Members partner up on ideas and find inspiration from each other. TPC makes this possible by providing the right support and by creating a mix of cross-sectoral organisations working on the same topic. As result TPC accelerates the protein transition and its innovations.