Meatco

About Meatco

Meatco BV is a specialist company focused on the engineering and implementation of animal by-product processing systems. Based in Helmond, the Netherlands, it positions itself as a practical R&D and production partner for turning animal raw materials into usable ingredients and finished applications.

The company works with meat, fish, and other animal-derived raw materials, supporting customers from idea development through laboratory trials, pilot-plant testing, and on-site production support. Its work is centered on improving yield, quality, functionality, taste, colour, and economic value while helping clients develop more efficient and sustainable processing methods.

Meatco’s market position is that of an independent consultant and technical development partner, combining process know-how with access to equipment suppliers, raw-material sources, and additive and spice producers. This allows it to develop tailored solutions for product and process challenges across the animal-protein value chain.

Core Values

• Zero-waste thinking: Meatco explicitly frames its mission around using and re-using natural resources as efficiently as possible. It sees food-industry processing as a way to reduce waste and recover value from raw materials.
• Sustainability: The company emphasizes sustainable recovery of proteins, fats, emulsions, and other materials from animal tissue. Its mission links process innovation with better resource efficiency and lower waste.
• Innovation: Meatco highlights new technologies, innovative thinking, enzymes, and micro-organisms as enablers of new processing techniques and products. It uses experimentation to open up new applications for animal raw materials.
• Customer collaboration: The company works closely with customers to monitor, evaluate, and improve recipes and processes. Its approach is hands-on and tailored to the technical and technological challenges of each project.

Unique Aspects

• Specialized pilot plant: Meatco operates a pilot plant dedicated to R&D and production based on animal by-products. This gives it a practical environment for testing new processes before customer-scale implementation.
• Broad process toolkit: Its capabilities include separation, evaporation, spray drying, drum drying, and ATFD drying, allowing it to handle multiple stages of animal-raw-material processing.
• Independent consulting model: Meatco says it has access to major global suppliers of technical equipment, fish and meat suppliers, and additive and spice producers, which supports its role as an independent consultant.
• Cross-species and cross-application experience: The company references work with beef, chicken, fish, meat emulsions, and hydrolyzed materials, showing a broad technical scope across animal-protein applications.