23 May 2024 --- Biotech company Enifer has secured €36 million (US$39 million) to construct a food-grade mycoprotein factory in Kirkkonummi, Finland. The site will convert food industry side streams into Enifer’s sustainable Pekilo fungi-based protein ingredients and is expected to be the “world’s first” commercial plant to produce such a mycoprotein ingredient from side stream raw materials.
