LiDestri Foods, Fermentum launch precision fermentation facility

Companies combine forces in an effort to break the precision fermentation bottleneck.

LiDestri Foods, a private label and contract food manufacturer, and Fermentum, a contract fermentation firm, today unveiled a joint venture: a 500,000-liter capacity precision fermentation facility.

Based in Rochester, N.Y., the site supports lab-to-pilot and commercial-scale fermentation with a 400-liter seed tank, three 20,000-liter units, six 70,…