Ÿnsect welcomes European interministerial delegation to Amiens
Paris, Friday January 21, 2022 – Ÿnsect, a B Corp-certified company and world leader in the production of premium insect-based ingredients, today welcomed Barbara Pompili, Minister of Ecological Transition, together with her European environmental counterparts, including Virginijus Sinkevi?ius, European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, to its Ÿnfarm site (Ÿnsect’s vertical production farm). The visit comes as part of informal meetings within the framework of the French presidency of the European Union. The site, also funded by a European BBI JU grant (Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking) as part of the ‘Farmyng’ project, is expected to come into operation in the second half of 2022, and should go on to produce over 200,000 metric tons of insect-based ingredients per year. Ÿnfarm is set to be the world’s largest vertical farm: a unique complex covering an area of some 45,000 m² and 36 metres high, built to breed beetles, and with a built-in, fully automated food processing unit.
