A round-up of the week’s key events in the dairy industry in Ukraine and around the world 👇
🏷️ How dairy brands are cleaning up their labels: Nestlé, Danone and Muscle Milk
Removing artificial colours and flavours from formulations is no longer a niche practice — it is an industry-wide movement.
🥛 Clear whey drives functional drinks boom amid tightening WPI supply
Active consumers want protein drinks that are both nutritious and refreshing.
🌾 From barn to breakthrough: how Danone is rethinking food innovation
The next wave of food and beverage innovation may not start in the laboratory — it may start much earlier, on the farm.
🏗️ $3.5bn, 270,000 cows, 117,000 hectares: Algeria and Qatar launch an ambitious dairy mega-project
Algeria and Qatari dairy producer Baladna are building one of the largest integrated dairy farms and powdered milk plants in the world.
🇺🇦 ‘No retreat is the best condition for a start’
— Oleksandr Derkach
🐄 DN Agrar reinforces its leadership: Europe’s largest milk producer announces €13.5 million in new investments
Romanian DN AGRAR Group — the largest cow’s milk producer in the EU — has announced plans to invest in developing its sixth farm and building two new composting facilities.
🔬 The protein boom: why the world’s largest dairy companies are investing in whey processing
From concentrate (WPC80) to lactoferrin — dairy companies around the world are scaling up whey processing capacity to capture growth in the premium sports and functional nutrition market.
🌱 EIT Food 2026: 65 promising start-ups have been selected
The latest cohort of 65 start-ups selected for the EIT Food Accelerator Network spans biotech ingredients, digital and autonomous agri systems, circular solutions and low-carbon supply chains.
⚗️ How membrane filtration transforms milk into high-value ingredients
Membrane technologies, once seen primarily as a tool for improving processing efficiency, are now helping producers extract more value from existing streams.
🤖 Food System Innovations launches AI-focused Food Intelligence Lab to accelerate sustainable protein R&D
Food System Innovations (FSI) has launched the Food Intelligence Lab — a new interdisciplinary initiative to build the AI infrastructure needed to accelerate research in the sustainable protein sector.
🇳🇿 Fonterra collects third-highest milk solids volume in co-operative history
Last season, Fonterra’s tankers loaded the third-highest tonnage of milk solids in the co-operative’s history.
🇮🇪 Ireland’s EU Council Presidency: an opportunity for the dairy sector
On 1 July 2026, Ireland assumed the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the eighth time.
