Exciting Progress at Upcycled Plant Power! 🌱⚙️ Yesterday, we hit a major milestone in our pilot plant by commissioning our products with an upgraded milling and juicing process. This enhancement is designed to boost efficiency and throughput potential, helping us scale our sustainable solutions even further. Next up, we'll be rigorously testing yields and ensuring that our end product maintains the quality and standards we pride ourselves on - proving that scaling up doesn't mean compromising excellence. Stay tuned as we continue to push the boundaries of innovation in upcycled nutrition! 💚♻️ #Sustainability #Innovation #PlantBased #Upcycling #FoodTech
UPP
Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Delivering affordable, sustainable, nutritious, hypoallergenic plant protein from biomass that would otherwise be wasted
About us
Mission: Deliver low-cost, sustainable, highly-nutritious, low-processed hypoallergenic plant protein from what would otherwise be wasted. Approach: Broccoli is hypoallergenic (unlike soy, wheat and pea protein), and has a very low Greenhouse Gas (‘GHG’) footprint, even if grown solely for protein. UPP uses the part of the broccoli plant that would otherwise be wasted. The harvester provides a low-cost feedstock for the protein production creating returns in which the farmer shares and creating a proprietary source of low-cost feedstock. Focus: Broccoli is manually harvested. While it is a high value crop it is low-margin due to a very high cost of harvest. UPP has a unique patent-protected Automated Selective Harvester, that is enabled by Machine Learning, and that reduces the cost of harvest, adding value for the farmer and reducing reliance on casual labour, a major driver of farm gate inflation. Differentiation: UPP has a propriety and patent-filed biotech process for processing brassica waste in to high-value high-protein products for sale to food manufacturers. Broccoli is high in sulforaphanes and free-form polyphenols, which both offer health benefits. Key Relationships: UPP is based out of the Agri-Tech Centre on the Harper Adams University site and has a fantastic relationship with the James Harper Institute. UPP has attracted over £1.2m of Innovate grant funding from InnovateUK. Timeliness: Farmers have challenges with profitability. Manufacturers want lower cost ingredients. Consumers want healthy, nutritious, hypoallergenic products. UPP can meet all these needs with natural ingredients for burgers, sausages, bread, cakes, sauces, pet food and smoothies, as well as creating a natural feedstock for mycelium. Outcome: UPP offers the prospect of helping food manufacturers to reduce their costs and hit their Scope 3 GHG reduction targets, while delivering hypoallergenic natural foods which are more nutritious.
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http://www.upp.farm
External link for UPP
- Industry
- Food and Beverage Manufacturing
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Newport
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2022
- Specialties
- alternative proteins
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c/o Agri-EPI Centre
Newport, TF10 8JZ, GB
Employees at UPP
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At UPP, we're committed to addressing the global challenge of feeding a growing population sustainably - aligning with Deloitte's recent research on the future of food. Their report highlights the need for sustainable food systems and healthier diets, and we're proud to be contributing to four key solutions: ⚙️ Accelerating innovation and technology - our 'Harvesta' helps food producers tackle labour shortages and maximise crop utilisation, ensuring more efficient food production. 🌏 Reducing emissions - by repurposing crop waste, we can cut methane emissions and lower the CO2 footprint of primary food sources. ♾️ Enhancing circularity - we transform food waste into valuable resources driving efficiency and feeding more people. 🛒 Guiding consumer choice and dietary shifts - our sustainable ingredients enable the development of hybrid products, helping retailers meet Net Zero goals, whilst supporting healthier diets for consumers. We're excited to be part of the global movement towards a more sustainable and accessible food system. #SustainableFood #Innovation #CircularEconomy #NetZero #FoodSecurity #UPP Read Deloitte's full report here: https://lnkd.in/ghXZWT7T
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CEO of UPP, Mark Evans, comments on the the value of becoming a new sponsor of the City Food & Drink Lecture, stating how it "enables innovators such as ourselves to debate, share knowledge, and network within an event that brings thought leaders in the food supply chain together. Meeting the changing demands of people, planet, and producers requires us to work with such progressive UK companies. By doing this, we can play our part in meeting Scope 3 reduction targets, reducing costs to manufacturers and delivering even better food to consumers. We look forward to the keynote from G's Group and to playing our part in an evening that promises to be insightful and part of the journey to a more resilient UK ecosystem that is better for farmers."
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Excited for 2025? 🌱 Here are the top plant-based trends to watch as innovation and sustainability take centre stage in the food industry! ✨ From game-changing ingredient innovations to egg alternatives, discover what we believe will be shaping the future of plant-based products 🔮 Read the full blog report here: https://lnkd.in/e-bwZPxn #Plantbased #FoodTrends #Sustainability #Innovation #FutureOfFood
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🎄🌟 A Broc-tastic Christmas Wish from All of Us! 🌟🎄 As we wrap up another floret of a year, we want to take a moment to extend our warmest wishes to all the incredible people who have made 2024 truly stalk-tacular! To our suppliers, investors, and friends of the company: your support has helped us grow stronger and greener than ever. We hope your holiday season is filled with joy, laughter, and maybe even a little broccoli 🥦 Looking ahead to 2025, we’re excited about the opportunities and innovations on the horizon. Together, we’ll keep leafing the way in making big things happen. From all of us here, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Here’s to a bright and nutri-fun year ahead! 🥦✨ Let’s grow together in 2025! ✨🥦
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🎄Christmas Cheer & Team Spirit!🎄 This year’s Christmas works do was full of festive laughs, family, team bonding, and some much-needed holiday fun! From escaping together to celebrating by the tree, we proved once again that our team knows how to bring the joy to the season. It’s days like this that remind us how lucky we are to work with such a brilliant bunch of people - we really sprouted some festive cheer in Worcester! ✨ Here’s to more moments like this as we grow into 2025!✨
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Thank you so much to Emma Roebuck, great work on our redesign! Very much appreciated! https://www.upp.farm/
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Drum roll please... 🥁 Over the past decade, the REAP Start-Up Showcase has featured more than 60 trailblazing ventures, providing exposure to early-stage innovations - from university spinouts to farmer-led inventions. Last week at REAP 2024, we proudly unveiled the latest eight start-ups we have chosen as the ones to watch in 2024🚀. In no particular order, they are... 🤖 Versatile RobotX – Robotics for efficient, multipurpose farm tasks. 🌐 Extend Robotics – Using AR and remote operation for accessible global farm labour. ☀️ Lambda agri – Enhancing greenhouse productivity through innovative light conversion. 🌿Plant Metrics – Real-time plant health insights with SAP sensor technology. ☕ Morrow (Nihilo Food Systems) – Coffee crafted without beans for a more sustainable brew. 🍓 FruitCast – Precision yield forecasting with AI-driven insights for fruit growers. 🥦 UPP – Broccoli harvesting automation and upcycling for sustainable food systems. 📷 Vet Vision AI – Improving animal welfare through AI-powered monitoring. ✨ Over the past three years, 15 of our featured companies have collectively raised nearly £120 million. Where will these latest be in a year's time?! We'll be watching... Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/e789_dK4 And big thank you to Nicole Sadd for chairing the session and bringing each of these companies into the limelight!
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Thank you Michael Lee and Jack A Bobo, the message of hybridization as a way to deliver healthy food with lower environmental and financial cost is one we love! Look forward to supporting you on this!
Powerful and insightful messaging from Jack A Bobo this morning at COP29 Azerbaijan around the need for radical collaboration to realise global sustainable food systems in the next critical 25 years as we reach human global population plateau. 'The opposite of a fact is a lie, but the opposite of a profound truth can be another profound truth!' 😁 To realise the future of Sustainable agri-food we need Livestock, at the same time we need more alternative protein. We need less binary debate and more radical collaboration! Both sides need to stop talking to the mirror and start talking to each other. But the starting point must be respect in agreement and disagreement. Livestock are not to be blamed they are part of the solution, but not the sole solution! Improve not remove. Cherish Plant and Animal sourced foods and the rich nutrient density combination they knit - together. Together we will make the difference School of Sustainable Food and Farming @ Harper Adams University Harper Adams University BSAS - British Society of Animal Science Animal Task Force Global Farm Platform
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The team at UPP would like to thank all our suppliers and partners for making this years trials in Scotland a success. It may be near the end of the UK season but we haven't finished this year just yet... with a special thanks too: The Engineering team and CERC from Harper Adams University MSP engineering Eagle Engineering Fab-Tech (Telford) Ltd Tibberton Engineering SOS Agricultural Ltd FRICTION HYDRAULICS Billcar Precision Engineering Ltd Redmore UK Ltd TELFORD PLASTICS LIMITED TJW Precision Ashish and Patrick from ifm James from Micromech Ltd James from Lockwell Electrical Strimech Engineering Limited MCL Ltd Renold Chain Europe Gary of AVISON SPRAYERS LIMITED Matt from Fluid Power Solutions Limited NVIDIA Last but by no means least UK Agri-Tech Centre for keeping us housed here at the Midlands Hub.
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