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International Pet Conference

Five nominees –

one award

The five companies nominated as candidates for the
PET worldwide Best Newcomer Award 2022 have been chosen.

With the international compe- (Austria), Qimmiq (Finland), SØDE the same time, the company is
tition it is staging for newcom- Design (Netherlands) and Strayz on the verge of opening up new
ers, PET worldwide aims to of- (Germany). They are featured in international markets, as it has
fer a platform for young compa- alphabetical order below. already received inquiries from
nies with innovative ideas to get various European countries.
themselves known in the pet sec- https://aniveri.com
tor. And the trade magazine ap-
pears to have hit the jackpot by Aniveri is a pet-tech start-up
introducing this award, because from Austria that has developed
over 30 applications had been a novel analysis method. The An-
submitted by companies across iveri analysis is the first preven- Livin Farms is a technology com-
Europe by the time the deadline tive medical screening for ani- pany developing equipment to
for entries arrived. The edito- mals that enables veterinarians grow alternative proteins and to
rial team of PET worldwide then to identify future health problems educate people about sustaina-
had the tricky task of selecting and diseases at an early stage bility. It was incorporated in late
five nominees from the submis- and counteract them in a tar- 2015 and has its headquarters
sions. These five will have an op- geted manner. Various data on in Vienna, Austria. The core de-
portunity to present themselves the respective animal and a lab- velopment is a modular, plug-
and their products/services to oratory analysis serve as input and-play insect farming factory
a large audience in five-minute factors. For example, the breed, that can turn industrial amounts
live pitches in each case at the weight and feeding behaviour of of organic by-products into in-
International Pet Conference in the animal are required as well sects. Those can in turn be pro-
Bologna. The winner will then be as a hair sample for the labora- cessed and sold as animal feed
presented with the PET world- tory-based ICP-MS (inductively or human food. “We are using
wide Best Newcomer Award on coupled plasma mass spectrom- the key function of insects in the
the first day of the conference. It etry) procedure. Based on the re- ecosystem to make our food sys-
will fall to PET worldwide read- sults, individual animal profiles tem healthy again at scale: turn-
ers, who will vote online, and can be created, and specially ing waste into precious food,”
delegates to the International adapted recommendations can says company founder and CEO
Pet Conference to decide which be provided. Katharina Unger. Setting up an
company will win the award, On the one hand, Aniveri is insect farming operation is a
with each voting element being currently working on expanding lengthy and expensive procedure
taken into account equally in the its sales team in order to reach that requires a lot of time and
final decision. as many potential customers R&D. With the company’s tech-
The nominees for the award as possible in the immediate nology, industry customers have
are: Aniveri (Austria), Livin Farms vicinity, i.e. at national level. At a shortcut. Its Hive PRO factories

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