Protix
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- Dongen, Netherlands
- Industries
- Alternative proteins, Animal feed, Food ingredients & products, Livestock farming, Farm input, Waste efficiency, Bio-energy & biomaterials, Insect farming
- Domains
- Insect based primary products, Black soldier fly, Processed food products, Egg alternatives, Insect products, Fish, Animal based primary products, Feed
- Technologies
- Smart & digital, Artificial intelligence, Biotechnology & sustainable inputs, Food-waste technology, Circular & resource technologies, Processing
About Protix
Protix is a Dutch insect ingredients company focused on bringing the food system back into balance with nature. It uses the black soldier fly to transform organic side streams into high-quality ingredients for pet food, aquaculture feed, livestock feed, plant care, and insect breeding.
The company positions itself as a science-based, collaborative partner for feed and food professionals. Protix says it has more than 15 years of pioneering experience and operates an industrial-scale, circular production process that combines insect farming and ingredient production under one roof.
Core Values
- Sustainability: Protix’s mission is to reduce the footprint of food production by upcycling organic waste and replacing more resource-intensive ingredients with insect-based alternatives.
- Science-based innovation: The company emphasizes rigorous research, proprietary technology, and continuous innovation as the basis for its products and production methods.
- Collaboration: Protix stresses partnerships with customers, universities, research institutes, and financial partners as essential to scaling insect solutions.
- Caring, determined culture: Protix describes its team as passionate, caring, and mission-driven, with a focus on creating positive change in the food system.
Unique Aspects
- Industrial-scale insect production: Protix says it has operated a fully industrial-scale plant in Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands, since 2019 and was the first insect ingredient company to achieve proven, stable, scalable production.
- Circular production model: The company combines insect farming and ingredient production in one process, using food-industry side streams as feedstock and turning residual streams into fertiliser.
- Strong sustainability evidence: Protix reports Life Cycle Assessment results, including peer-reviewed confirmation, showing very low land, water, and emissions footprints for its insect ingredients.
- Strategic Tyson Foods partnership: In 2023, Tyson Foods agreed to a minority equity investment in Protix and a joint venture to build an insect ingredient facility in the continental United States.
- Investor-backed growth: Protix raised EUR 50 million in equity in 2022 with investors including ECBF, BNP Paribas, the Prince Albert II Foundation, The Good Investors, Aqua-Spark, Rabo Investments, and Invest-NL.