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Playbook & Handbook · February 6, 2026
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Backbone Food Quality and Compliance AI
Backbone is a Belgian startup founded in 2025 by Louis Opsomer, Siska Lannoo and Julien Steel. It provides an AI platform for food and beverage quality teams that…
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Agrofood Industry
MEQ Camera and Probe Meat Grading
MEQ Solutions is an Australian company founded in 2016 in Adelaide that measures red meat quality and yield objectively. It targets the meat industry’s reliance on subjective visual…
Polysense Qualify and AutoControl
Polysense is a Belgian company based in Gent that provides AI-native machine vision and process control for food manufacturing. It aims to catch quality drift on production lines…
Biorsaf BS-Safe Food Safety Platform
Biorsaf S.r.l. is an Italian startup founded in 2021 and based in Castell’Azzara (Grosseto). It digitises food safety, workplace safety and water quality management so that food businesses…
GrainSense NIR Grain Analyzers
GrainSense Ltd was established in late 2014 as a spin-off from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and began operations in 2016. The company is based in Oulu,…
HISAKA RCS Retort Sterilizers for Food
HISAKA WORKS is a Japanese industrial machinery maker established in May 1942 and headquartered in Osaka, with about 1,063 consolidated employees. Its businesses cover plate heat exchangers, valves…
Dylog Hitech Dymond X-ray and Vision Inspection for Food
Dylog Hitech is an Italian manufacturer of non-invasive X-ray scanning machines, vision inspection equipment and laboratory instruments, founded in 1996 as a spin-off of the high-technology branch of…
Eagle X-ray Inspection and DEXA Fat Analysis Systems
Eagle Product Inspection is the X-ray inspection business of METTLER TOLEDO, which bought the former Smiths Detection product inspection unit in 2011; its first X-ray machine for the…
Ohkawara Spray Dryers for Food Powders (L/OC, FGA Series)
Ohkawara Kakohki is a Japanese engineering company established in April 1980 and headquartered in Yokohama, Kanagawa, with a sales office in Osaka and a Powder Technology Research Institute…
Mekitec MEKI AI-Powered X-ray Food Inspection
Mekitec is a Finnish company founded in 2005 that develops X-ray inspection systems for food producers, with offices in Espoo and Oulu, Xi’an in China, Irving in Texas…