Tailored from a press launch.
Wilbur-Ellis Vitamin and Bond Pet Meals have introduced a partnership to develop tailor-made elements for pet meals functions. The collaboration is the first-of-its-kind for Wilbur-Ellis Vitamin and Bond’s second strategic partnership with a worldwide pet meals business participant.
“Our partnership with Bond expands our capabilities and opens up new methods to ship sustainable, progressive elements to pet meals producers around the globe,” mentioned Matt Fanta, president of Wilbur-Ellis Vitamin. “We see super alternative with Bond’s expertise to increase what’s attainable with pet vitamin and help our pursuit of a extra accountable pet meals future.”
Animal-derived elements are the mainstay of canine and cat diets. Whereas the demand for these elements continues to develop, meat manufacturing to fulfill this demand can have an outsized affect on the setting. As famous within the scientific journal PLUS One, if U.S. pets had been their very own nation, they’d be the fifth largest meat customers on this planet, and chargeable for as much as 30% of related carbon emissions.
Crafting a sustainable pet meals future
Bond approaches manufacturing of those foundational pet meals elements in a different way, using a yeast-based precision fermentation course of that has been round for greater than half a century to make elements resembling vitamin B12, flavors like vanilla, and enzymes for cheese manufacturing, however has creatively reassembled the method to extra effectively produce proteins like hen, turkey and fish with out the animal. Its “brewing” platform additionally has the flexibility to reinforce the completed merchandise’ dietary and useful efficiency, in contrast with typical choices accessible immediately.
“Because the petfood business focuses extra on sustainable options, precision fermentation is an more and more engaging device to provide proteins, flavors, and blends that carry out,” mentioned Nick Braden, vp of Wilbur-Ellis Pet Vitamin. “This collaboration with Bond, and their deep fermentation experience, will enable us to additional advance our ingredient portfolio.”
Wealthy Kelleman, CEO and founding father of Bond Pet Meals, who will converse at subsequent week’s Petfood Discussion board occasion in Kansas Metropolis on making a extra sustainable pet meals future, mentioned he’s thrilled to associate with Wilbur-Ellis Vitamin.
“For greater than 100 years, they’ve been recognized for high-quality elements and have a real dedication to innovation within the pet vitamin house,” mentioned Kelleman. “We stay up for creating a brand new class of merchandise by way of this JDA program that may present pet meals producers with extra sustainable, useful formulary options.”
