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Leading Agtech Company Nutrition Technologies Announces a New Investor 

June 26, 2023 by Asia Food Journal

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Investment 

On June 26th 2023, Nutrition Technologies welcomed Bunge Ventures, the for-profit principal investing arm of Bunge, a leading global agribusiness, food, feed, and ingredients company, as an investor. Nutrition Technologies has a proprietary controlled industrial microbial decomposition process that uses Black Soldier Fly Larvae (“BSFL”) to bio-convert food waste and industrial organic by-products diverted from landfills. 

The company’s patent-pending fermentation technology also provides a scalable platform for a range of insect-based products for crop health and animal feed. “We are very excited to have Bunge Ventures as a new investor,” said Tom Berry, Co-CEO and Co-founder of Nutrition Technologies. “Their global network and experience in the agribusiness sector are unrivalled and this investment will allow us to scale our tropical bioconversion system and make insect-based products a mainstay ingredient of the future.” 

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Background 

Nutrition Technologies manufacture and supply insect meal, oil, and bio-fertilisers to help feed the growing agriculture and feed industries around the world. After extensive R&D, they have focused on developing a unique biotechnology approach within the insect sector. This process uses beneficial microbes and BSFL to provide a zero-waste, low-energy, and low-cost production model. 

“This has not only resulted in our ability to out-compete competitors on pricing, but also on carbon emissions and sustainability credentials,” said Nick Piggott, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Nutrition Technologies. 

As a tropical species, the Black Soldier Fly grows rapidly and efficiently in the ambient Malaysian climate, resulting in minimal energy requirements in the rearing process. The company currently ships industrial volumes of material throughout Europe, Asia & South America from their two-hectare factory in Malaysia. 

Nutrition Technologies recently signed an MoU partnership with Sumitomo Corporation to distribute products in Japan. Last month, they also launched a new organic biofertiliser, Diptia™, derived from fermented insect frass designed to protect major agricultural crops from fungal diseases that currently threaten food production. This was the first in a family of crop health products to be released by the company. 

In March of this year, Nutrition Technologies were also awarded full approval to ship their insect meal and insect oil into Europe and the UK for the pet food and aquafeed markets, providing European manufacturers with the option to buy high-quality, affordable insect-based ingredients.

The insect sector has gathered increasing attention over the past few years, with the global insect protein market alone estimated to be worth US$343 million in 2021 and expected to grow at a CAGR of 26.49 percent to reach US$1.3 billion by 2027. 

As a sustainable solution to help minimise multiple unsustainable practices, the sector as a whole has seen investments totalling nearly US$1 billion, but with multiple technological hurdles, few companies are yet to reach industrial scale. 

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