Wilbur Ellis Nutrition and Bond Pet Foods partner to develop ingredients through precision fermentation
Joint development agreement to create sustainable ingredient blends for pet food applications
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. and BOULDER, Colo. , April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition, LLC, a leading provider of innovative animal nutrition solutions and a Boulder-based leader in animal nutrition development. Bond Pet Foods, Inc., a developer of sustainable fermented animal proteins, today announced a partnership to develop customized ingredients for pet food applications. This partnership is a first for Wilbur Ellis Nutrition and marks Bond’s second strategic partnership with a company in the global pet food industry.
If American pets were their own country, they would be the fifth-largest meat consumers in the world.
“Our partnership with Bond expands our capabilities and opens new ways to deliver sustainable, innovative ingredients to pet food manufacturers around the world,” said Matt Fanta, president of Wilbur Ellis Nutrition. Stated. “We see a tremendous opportunity to expand the possibilities of pet nutrition with Bond’s technology and support the pursuit of a more responsible pet food future.”
Ingredients of animal origin are the mainstay of dog and cat diets. The demand for these ingredients continues to increase, and the production of meat to meet this demand can have a significant impact on the environment. As pointed out in the scientific journal “PLUS One”, if the pets of the United States were native, they would be her fifth.th It is the world’s largest meat consumer and accounts for up to 30% of its associated carbon emissions.
Taking a different approach to producing these basic pet food ingredients, Bond has been around for more than half a century producing ingredients such as vitamin B12, flavors such as vanilla, and enzymes for cheese making. We use a yeast-based precision fermentation process, but we’ve creatively reimagined the process to more efficiently produce chicken, turkey, fish and other proteins without the use of animals. Its “brewing” platform also has the ability to enhance the nutritional and functional performance of the final product compared to conventional options currently available.
“As the pet food industry places greater emphasis on sustainable solutions, precision fermentation is becoming more and more important for producing blends of protein, flavor, and potency,” said Nick Braden, vice president of Wilbur Ellis Pet Nutrition. It has become an increasingly attractive tool for “This collaboration with Bond and their deep fermentation expertise allows us to further evolve our ingredient portfolio.”
said Rich Kelleman, CEO and Founder of Bond Pet Foods. “For more than 100 years, the company has been known for high-quality ingredients and has a true commitment to innovation in the pet nutrition field. Through this JDA program, we encourage pet food manufacturers to develop new classes of products. We look forward to creating more sustainable and functional formulation alternatives. ”
For more information about Wilbur Ellis Nutrition, visit wilburellisnutrition.com. For more information about Bond Pet Foods, Inc., visit bondpets.com.
About Wilbur Ellis Nutrition
Wilbur Ellis Nutrition has been helping animals grow for more than a century. Wilbur Ellis Nutrition provides a portfolio of products that include high-performance antioxidants and unique functional ingredients, as well as services such as ingredient sourcing, material handling, and custom ingredient blends, to support animal health efforts around the world. Serving the industry. For more information about Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition, visit www.wilburellisnutrition.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
About Bond Pet Foods
Bond Pet Foods is a Boulder, Colorado-based company that uses biotechnology to produce animal proteins that are nutritionally equivalent to their conventional counterparts, but without all the bad stuff. So humans, pets, livestock, and the planet all win. Using some of the same processes employed in craft beer brewing, Bond produces high-quality animal proteins through fermentation and harvests them to better meet the nutritional requirements of companion animals. We supply raw materials to manufacturers of pet food, snacks, and supplements.
Bond’s investors include some of the largest investors in the alternative protein, biotech and raw materials space, including Genoa VC, Lever VC, ADM Ventures, Cavallo Ventures (Wilbur-Ellis), Agronomics, Thia Ventures, KBW Ventures, iSelect Fund, and Plug and Play. Contains prominent funds. Ventures.
Learn more about Bond’s technology and team here. Bonpet.com Or follow @bondpetfoods on LinkedIn and Instagram. X.
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