Food & Beverage Asia June/July 2020

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NEWS
Tetra Pak launches its first complete processing line for white cheese
Tetra Pak has launched its first complete
processing line for feta type white cheese
products, with a fully automated and
integrated solution to ensure the highest
standard of food safety and speed to
market.
The new processing line enables white
milk producers and traditional cheese
makers to explore opportunities within
white cheese. It is designed to produce a
diverse range of white cheese products,
utilising technologies like ultrafiltration
and high shear mixing, to facilitate
customer exploration of a new market
segment and increase current production
capacity. The processing line works for
both Bacteriological Acidified Feta (BAF)
and Glucone Delta Lactone (GDL) using a
“hygienic and safe process” to ensure long
product shelf life.
Joanna Majewska, Business Development
Liquid Filled Cheese Line, Tetra Pak, said,
“We want to make cheese production as
straightforward as possible, and enable
customers to discover new opportunities
in white cheese.
“Using a closed and fully automated line
solution, without manual contact with
the product, we are making it easier
for customers to achieve profitability,
high efficiency and minimise loss. Plus,
the product is food safe and ready
for consumption straight after being
packaged.” ■
Feta is a type of white cheese that is commonly
produced in blocks
InnovoPro raises US$15M funding round led by JVP
InnovoPro, an Israeli food-tech company,
has raised US$15 million in a B round
funding, led by Jerusalem Venture Partners
(JVP), an Israeli venture capital fund.
InnovoPro will use the new capital for
scaling up production, through increasing
production capacity and for forming
business development and marketing joint
ventures. The company aims to expand
and identify partners to launch the nextgeneration
factory for the production of
chickpea protein. It is further targeting
an over $40 billion market of protein
ingredients, which is searching new
opportunities for providing alternative and
more sustainable protein-rich products.
Erel Margalit, Founder and Chairman
of JVP, commented, “The world needs
new, innovative protein, alternatives to
the milk and meat industry that exist
today. InnovoPro’s chickpea protein
is a revolutionary product that plays
an essential role in the food industry’s
response to creating the next wave of
plant-based protein – replacing protein
from animals.”
Over the past few years, InnovoPro has
led breakthrough innovation in developing
Adding 2% chickpea protein enables removal of
carrageenans and modified starches, said InnovoPro
products based on its chickpea protein,
making its protein the chosen solutions
for companies worldwide to embed in new
product launches. To support its global
customers, InnovoPro has developed
prototype food products based on its
chickpea protein in various categories
such as dairy alternatives, meat analogues,
sports nutrition, bakery, snacks, spreads
and ice cream. Various products based
on InnovoPro’s chickpea protein have
already been launched in the US, Europe
and Israel.
Taly Nechushtan, CEO of InnovoPro,
concluded, “We believe that InnovoPro will
lead the new alternative protein category,
and be the one to introduce products with
added health and nutritional values to
customers. Since chickpeas are considered
as a superfood, our next generation of
ingredients will not just be offering tasty
and ‘free from all’ properties, but health
properties as well.” ■
FOOD & BEVERAGE ASIA JUNE / JULY 2020