IPIFF Members
AGRONUTRIS
Agronutris is a French biotech company dedicated to the development of the insect rearing industry as an answer to the feed challenges of tomorrow. Agronutris’ mission is to use insect bioconversion to feed and preserve the world.
Insects are able to turn by-products from the agro industry into valuable ingredients for the feed market, contributing in that way to the development of a circular economy. Engaged in a human-centered adventure, Agronutris develops a fair and sustainable agri-food industry. Its team, made up of experts in entomology and specialists in the agro business industry, is strongly engaged in order to provide high quality products for the aquaculture and pet food markets.
Website: www.agronutris.com
Alia Insect Farm
Alia insect Farm rears and processes edible crickets. The core product is a very fine cricket flour 100% made in Italy. Located in Milan countryside, in a strategic position close to the 3 main airports in Lombardy. A multidisciplinary team is studying the best feed for ALIA crickets, to be cultivated by Alia in the same place where the farm is located, according to its strategy of highest quality control across the entire food production chain.
Website: www.aliainsectfarm.it
Amusca
Amusca enables companies worldwide to produce insect larvae locally using smart insect technology and services, so that they are able to produce high-quality animal nutrition, added-value products and biochemicals: clean, green and natural.
Amusca works with partners worldwide. Drawing on Amusca’s in-depth insect and product know-how, Amusca partners work side-by-side with customers to make the cutting-edge technology work to their advantage.
Website: www.amusca.com
BEF Biosystems
BEF Biosystems is an Italian company founded in 2016, operating in the insect rearing industry. In the past years, BEF has developed an innovative project that brought to a proprietary technology to breed Black Soldier Fly larvae. The system is based on small scale modular plants named Bugsfarm, that uses organic residues located locally to generate nutritional substrates for BSF larvae. Once grown, these can be transformed in protein and fat source for animal feed and other high value by products such as chitin. At the same time, the use of renewable energy sources makes the whole system a fully sustainable circular economy model, that supports social and economic development.
Website: www.bef.bio
Divaks
Divaks is dedicated to the development of tailor-made, high-quality insect protein solutions for the food industry. The company is specialising in mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) breeding, rearing, processing and final products creation. Divaks’ goal is sustainability and traceability in every step. Its experienced team is elaborating a fully automated vertically integrated technology and is committed to using only by-products from local agriculture and food industry. Once the development is done, an environmentally friendly and sustainable production site will take its place.
Website: www.divaks.com
ECOFLY
Ecofly is the first Austrian-based producer of sustainable insect protein. Since 2017, Ecofly is working on scalable and efficient technologies for the production and processing of black soldier fly larvae. The key motivation of the company is the integration of an insect-based protein recycling system into European agriculture. Ecofly is committed to sustainable food production and therefore considers that mimicking natural nutrient cycles by using insect farming is a powerful instrument for future agriculture.
Website: www.ecofly.at
EntoGreen
EntoGreen is a Portuguese company founded in 2014 with the objective to promote agri-food sector sustainability and to contribute to a better environment, essentially promoting a circular economy using natural tools. EntoGreen uses insects as a tool to convert agri-food vegetable by-products into high-value raw materials to be used as feed ingredients and soil nutrition.
Website: www.entogreen.org
Essento Food AG
Essento, the Swiss edible insect pioneer, develops, produces and markets insect-based food innovations under its own brand but also for partners. The company has a large range of products, from fresh/frozen burgers to Snacks and Protein/Energy bars. Essento is dedicated to manifest insects as an alternative protein source in the European diet.
Website: www.essento.ch
Hermetia Baruth GmbH
Hermetia Baruth GmbH is a German producer of high value protein, fat and fertilizer derived from the Black Soldier Fly (BSF). The production facility is located south of Berlin. Company was founded 2006 and had the first significant BSF colony in Europe. The research driven company aims to improve process efficiency and product quality.
Website: www.hermetia.de
Iberinsect
Iberinsect is a specialized company in the area of biotechnology. Its activity is based on the research of new processes and products with a strong innovation and sustainability component in the potential use of Tenebrio Molitor for feed and food. Always ensuring the highest quality and safety standards, we count on a qualified team and owned technology in order to look for healthy, nutritive, natural and respectful alternative protein.
Website: www.iberinsect.com
Illucens GmbH
Illucens breeds the larvae of the Hermetia Illucens fly industrially – creating a rich valuable protein source for humans and animals – economically sound and environmentally friendly.
Website: www.illucens.com
Innovafeed
Innovafeed, a French biotechnology company, is a leading insect producer that has developed disruptive technologies and a unique production model harnessing the power of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) to valorize agricultural by-products and produce sustainable ingredients for animal and plant nutrition in a circular, zero-waste model.
Its core mission is to champion the development of sustainable food systems by meeting the rising demand for natural, nutritious, and cost-effective raw materials while ensuring the preservation of natural resources and biodiversity.
Today, Innovafeed operates the largest insect production capacity in the world, with two sites in operation, delivering consistent volumes at scale in France, and a third site under construction in the USA.
Website: innovafeed.com/en
INVERS
INVERS is a French company which creates a complete and innovative sector, from producer to consumer, for the on-farm production of insect proteins for animal feed. These excellent quality proteins are produced and transformed locally into animal feed with a view to the sustainability of the sector, the territory and the environment.
Website: www.invers.fr
INVERTAPRO
Invertapro upcycles organic waste to high-quality, sustainable protein. With experience in breeding insects since 2015, it is Norway’s leading insect company. Invertapro utilises locally available organic streams to produce feed primarily for the aquaculture industry. Invertapro also produce insects as food, as well as the insect-frass fertiliser Bløme.
Website: www.invertapro.com
JIMINI’S
JIMINI’S produces two types of products, whole ready to eat insects and energy bars made with cricket flour. The range of whole insects counts three kind of insects: Grasshoppers, Mealworms and Crickets. JIMINI’S insects are raised in specialized farms in the Netherlands, thus ensuring the best possible standards of traceability and quality control. Grasshoppers, Crickets and Mealworms are dehydrated and then delicately processed and seasoned in JIMINI’S workshop near Paris to bring you tastes like no other! They are ready-to-eat, crispy, tasty and ideal to open up a meal!
Website: www.jiminis.co.uk
Koppert
Koppert contributes to the better health of people and the planet. In partnership with nature, we make agriculture healthier, safer and more productive. We provide an integrated system of specialist knowledge and natural, safe solutions that improves crop health, resilience and production.
Website: www.koppert.com
MUTATEC
MUTATEC is a French company specifically dedicated to agriculture and bioconversion by insects in order to produce sustainable feed to fish, pet food and poultry. MUTATEC has chosen Hermetia illucens, known as black soldier fly and developed a technical farming method which can be applied to large-scale projects.
Website: www.mutatec.com
NASEKOMO
Nasekomo is a Bulgarian company revolutionizing the human food chain by producing animal feeds from organic waste thanks to insect’s tremendous biological powers. We rear Black Soldier Fly to produce insect protein, oil and fertilizer for the feed and agriculture industries.
Website: www.nasekomo.life
nextProtein
nextProtein has years of experience in breeding black soldier fly, which was selected especially for its beneficial, high-yield quality. Fly larvae are raised, harvested and then processed into valuable components of animal feed: an insect-based protein for aquaculture, livestock and pets, an extracted fat and a natural fertilizer for use in agriculture.
Website: www.nextprotein.co
NUTRI’earth
Nutri’Earth is a French company who develops a range of food ingredients from edible insects for the prevention of some pathologies. These ingredients are available as flour. The company implements sustainable and innovative rearing methods to optimise the nutritional value of the insects. Nutri’Earth raised funds in 2019 to scale up its capacity of production and its Research & Development activities.
Website: www.nutriearth.fr
Probenda
Probenda GmbH is founded in 2020. After a pilot phase, Probenda plans to produce high-quality protein, oil and fertilizer from the black soldier fly in the spring of 2021. In a fully automated vertical farming system near Darmstadt, Germany the flies will be bred, and their larvae will be processed. With this innovative production system, they make a decisive contribution to sustainable and modern agriculture. Resource-saving, ecological and regional!
Website: www.probenda.de
Pronofa
Pronofa ASA is a Norwegian company that produces sustainable insect and marine nutrients. Pronofa upcycle organic waste into high quality protein using BSFL.
Website: www.pronofa.no
ProNuvo
ProNuvo is an international company who’s goal is to create high-quality insect-based products using a circular model. By harnessing the innate biological qualities of the Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia Illucens) Larvae at an industrial scale. ProNuvo is able to provide a more sustainable and nutritious protein source for livestock and pets while upcycling leftover organic material. ProNuvo’s mission is to disrupt our current food cycle through the balance of nature and technology.
Website: www.pronuvo.com
Protix
Protix produces, processes and supplies high-quality insect based ingredients. By facilitating nature’s most formidable force, we will be part of the solution to the protein crisis. Protix employees are like ants, they are strong and collaboratively create formidable structures.
Website: www.protix.eu
Tebrio
TEBRIO, previously known as MealFood Europe, is an industrial Spanish company created on 2014, breeding and transforming tenebrio molitor insect products for their uses on animal nutrition, vegetal nutrition and other industrial and non industrial markets.
Website: www.tebrio.com
Tebrito
Website: www.tebrito.se
VBF Pro – Vertical Bug Farming Protein
VBF Pro is a Bulgarian company focused on products from mealworms (Tenebrio molitor larvae). They developed and are constantly improving an in-house system for rearing. Recently their HACCP system was approved and VBF Pro has been certified for using dry mealworm larva as animal feed. Hand-to-hand with Universities, the academic community, laboratory analysis and testing, they are working on their final goal: the certification for human consumption. They recently facilitated the company goals, with the acquisition of 9000 m2 of industrial land for further expansion in Bulgaria.
Website: to be added soon
Wendepunkt
Wendepunkt Für unsere Zukunft is a young German company, founded in 2020, which focuses on the sustainable and ecological production of valuable and high quality proteins and lipids for the feed industry. Constantly striving to get the best out of the larvae of the Black Soldier Fly and not to lose sight of the sustainable environmental aspect of the company.
Website: www.wendepunkt-fuz.com
Ÿnsect
Ÿnsect is a French company working in the production of protein and natural insect fertilisers. Founded in 2011 in Paris, France, by both scientists and environmental activists, Next40 and B Corp-certified, Ÿnsect processes insects into high-end, high-value ingredients for pets, fish, plants and humans. From its purpose-built state-of-the-art farms, it offers a long-term, sustainable, organic solution to accelerate protein and plant consumption. Ÿnsect uses pioneering proprietary technology covered by 341 patents across 41 categories, to produce lesser and yellow mealworms in fully automated vertical farms. Ÿnsect runs two production sites, one in Dole, France (commissioned 2016), one in the Netherlands (2017), and a third site, the world’s largest vertical farm, in Amiens in France, is currently under construction. The company, which employs 250 people, has raised around $ 425 million from major global investment funds, banks and public bodies and exports its products around the world.
Website: www.ynsect.com/en/
