News and Updates
Keep up to date with the latest announcements at Sun Bear Biofuture and in the precision fermentation world.
2026-05-22
Bio-Beauty - Future of Engineering Biology at SCI
This was a fantastic opportunity to see what is coming through in bio-based beauty, and to introduce people to our cocoa butter alternative, which is going down so well in cosmetics. The highlight was hearing from Jen Vanderhoven about the Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association and Cosmetics Cluster UK’s latest report on bio-beauty.
You can check it out here:
https://bbia.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Cosmetics-Report-final-1.pdf
2026-03-30
Sun Bear Biofuture in the Foodtech 500 for the second year running!
It’s a real honour to be recognised in the Foodtech 500 listing for the second year running. Based on a number of metrics the Foodtech 500 judges, selects and highlights the global food innovators to keep an eye on. And we fit right in.
2025-10-01
Major Collaboration with High Street Cosmetics Brand
We're unofficially announcing the start of a big project. We’re working with a well known cosmetics brand to explore our innovative fats and oils in their product formulations.
This is a major step forward on our journey to scaling and commercialisation - more news to follow soon!
2026-04-23
Hacksummit is the only place to be for food innovation
Hats off to the organisers - HackSummit 2026 was hands down the best conference we have attended a long time. Many familiar faces, with lots of new friends and acquaintances made too. Being able to show off some of the results of our reformulation work with a major high street cosmetics brand and getting a hugely positive response makes all the hard work worth it.
2025-12-10
SBB at SynbiTECH Conference
Sun Bear Biofuture CEO Ben Wilding attended SynbiTECH this year for the first time. We love the work they are doing to highlight the power of synthetic biology for the UK economy. The crowd was a fan of our work on alternative fats and oils, and it was a pleasure to be able to show the results of our work on our new cocoa butter alternative.
2025-09-11
Helping celebrate the Enterprise Centre’s 3rd anniversary
As one of the first tenants in the newly dedicated Enterprise Centre at Oxford Brookes University, it was great to be invited to present on our company and close collaboration with the Centre and wider university ecosystem over the past 3 years.
We’ve come a very long way in a short time and are very grateful to the community here for their unwavering support.