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Opalia announces strategic commercial agreement with Hoogwegt to create world’s first cell-based dairy products
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Canadian food startup Opalia announced a new strategic commercial agreement with Hoogwegt, one of the world’s largest privately held dairy ingredient providers. This first-ever cell-based dairy sales marks a major milestone for both Opalia’s scale-up and commercialization plans and the global cell-based dairy industry.
The commercial agreement for the next two years (2026-2027) is to create the world’s first cell-based dairy products and showcase Opalia’s cell-based milk products’ versatility and global opportunity. The collaboration combines Opalia’s proprietary sustainable cell-based dairy manufacturing technology with Hoogwegt’s dairy products and global markets expertise covering more than130 countries and six continents.
Founded in 2020, Opalia has been establishing itself as a leader in the cell-based dairy industry with its efforts to achieve cost parity by eliminating FBS from its process, attracting several LOIs from large food and dairy corporates, and raising a total of 3 million from Hoogwegt, Big Idea Ventures, and Sustainable Food Ventures amongst others.
"Hoogwegt’s purchase order to support Opalia’s development of the world’s first cell-based dairy development reflects their trust and commitment in our pioneering technology.", said Opalia’s CEO, Jennifer Côté. "Hoogwegt’s proven expertise in dairy product development and global dairy markets, as well as their commitment to sustainability, aligns perfectly with our strategic goals, and we are confident that this purchase order will allow us to commercialize the world’s first cell-based dairy products.”
Sander Hulsebos, CEO of Hoogwegt comments: After already having invested in Opalia, this commercial purchase agreement between Opalia and Hoogwegt is a next major step towards establishing Opalia as a strategic supplier of cell-based milk in Hoogwegt’s future sustainable dairy supply chain.
Opalia is actively working with regulatory agencies to showcase its cell-based dairy products at tasting events as it prepares for scaling and commercialization. Opalia is interested to meet with commercial partners and investors who are eager to decarbonize their supply chain and to be part of the next chapter in sustainable food innovation.
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