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Our colleague Felix presented his bachelor thesis on the influence of yeast on the growth of the black soldier fly at the Insecta conference in Giessen last week. Supervisor of the thesis was our managing director Jonas. Our colleague Yannik also presented a poster, here the topic was the positive effects of our natural fertilizer.

We are there! Next week, from September 15-17, we will be helping to shape the agriculture and food industry of tomorrow at the Farm-Food-Climate Festival. As an innovative feed manufacturer, we supply sustainable insect proteins and want to actively contribute beyond our work. Through a mix of conference and change maker event, a safe space

We at madebymade still use usable food – just like our partner SIRPLUS. We use it as food for our larvae, SIRPLUS puts together delicious boxes for you and me. Do your part against food waste, too. In their nutritious boxes you will find our natural fertilizer with a 10% discount code for our online store

Our larvae are a real treat – even for the very young. Natural food for many of our native species. Get your starter pack now and let your pets try it! You can find all our sustainable products right here on our website.

Our contribution to a green future: our sustainable products. From top left to bottom right you can see our dried black soldier flies, dried black soldier fly larvae, chitin, natural fertiliser, fat, and insect protein. Diverse products with a wide range of uses. Each one serves as an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional products. Get

We continue this week with the KIN Roundtable PETFOOD. As a pioneer in the petfood industry, we are actively shaping the future of the pet industry through our healthy and sustainable insect proteins. Many thanks to Lebensmittelinstitut KIN e.V. for this exciting event and to our great Partner Jamina Zauggl from BugBell GmbH.

We are happy to be there today! Our founder Kai is in Dresden today at the futureSAX innovation conference. Together we celebrate innovative ideas from Saxony. Our future-oriented insect breeding must not be missing here! In addition to our sustainable products, our black soldier flies could also be seen up close.

We promote young talent! Today, four schoolgirls visited us to get a taste of the professions of engineer, production worker and process technician. We showed our production and our animals up close and had lunch together. We hope you got a good insight into the different professions. We are looking forward to more visitors next

Visit us this week in the pop up store of Urbanite City Magazine in the Höfe am Brühl. Leipzig companies that also produce here are presented. You will find our regional products right next to those of Hülsenreich GmbH, who produce delicious vegan snacks: roasted chick peas. Come by!

Since this week our natural fertilizer is available in the online store of the Annalinde gardening shop in Leipzig. This nursery has the same goals as we do: to support local food cultivation, biodiversity, sustainable consumption and responsible use of resources. In addition to our fertilizer, there is a selection of more than 30 plants:

We present: our dried larvae in a practical 1.5kg starter pack. With a protein content of over 40%, they are a real superfood and natural food for many native creatures. Your pets are going to love this delicious and healthy snack. Convince yourself of our regional protein source. Available in our shop.

Welcome to the team, Richard! Congratulations on passing your bachelor thesis on the possible certification of our products according to GMP+ standard. A big thank you also goes to our colleague Maricruz, who supported with her expertise. We are happy that you will be working with us in the marketing and sales department from now

We would like to thank our intern Sania for her time with us! As a PhD student in the field of biology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, she was able to apply her background from science directly in practice with us. The high quality of our products and continuous optimization is our priority. Sania

Probably the most sustainable fertilizer in the world: our natural fertilizer. Recycled organic residues give your plants the special kick: 80% organic matter support the humus build-up and the activation of soil life too.Recently, another paper was published, highlighting the immense power of our fertilizer: “Insect frass and exuviae promote plant growth and health”.Chitin stimulates

Congratulations to Daniel Gärttling who defended his master thesis at the Universität Hohenheim last week. Our CEO Jonas Finck was second examiner of the thesis and learned important insights from Daniel on how the use of our fertilizer affects a fungus gnat population. Thanks for your effort and time, Daniel! You can find the results of his work in

Under the pillar of ecology, we directly address three goals of the sustainable development goals: Climate action, Life under water and Life on land. We create an innovative solution that is completely future-oriented: by directly substituting soy and fish meal with our insect protein, we protect forests from deforestation and prevent overfishing of the oceans.

We look back on a successful 2021: our production volumes grew steadily, the team got great additions, finally events again, new contacts and great collaborations were made. We look forward to growing our impact next year. Big goals are coming up and we will do everything we can to realize our 2nd modular insect breeding

Our commitment to sustainable development: In the topic of economy we address goals 8 and 9. We create long-term jobs in a rural region. In the first step, we are doing this in the greater Leipzig area in Saxony. In the future, worldwide. We promote innovation with our highly automated plant, because we create a new technology

Yesterday we finally had the opportunity to work together on our team development. We started with a workshop held by Gwendolyn on the topic of gender discrimination in the company. Here we learned about the different ways women are discriminated against, acted out situations and discussed them. Afterwards, we finally conducted the first speedback inspired

Why do we breed the larvae of the Black Soldier Fly? They have the special ability to convert residual materials into sustainable products: Insect protein, natural fertilizer and fat. In this picture you can see how fast they can do that. There are only a few hours between the two pictures and they have completely

To all larvae lovers: we offer a great subscription where you save up to 20%. You determine the time interval, the quantity, and can cancel easily at any time by e-mail. The larvae arrive directly at your doorstep, produced in a regional circular economy! Feed them directly to your pets, there is not a more

We are looking for you! Starting in November for a period of 3 months we offer an extraordinary internship: you will support us in the production of sustainable insect protein. During you internship at madebymade, you will be part of our team and contribute your own ideas. Each intern will have his or her own

We actively work on three Social Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 2 No Hunger we implement by producing larvae which are used in regional cycles to support fish or chicken farms. We also reduce the dependence on the EU as the largest importer of soy. Goal 11 Sustainable cities and communities are addressed by using only

Watched our colleague working briefly: Nikolai deals with our big data. As an insect breeder on an industrial scale, we not only work with our animals, but also with a lot of data. This requires people who are patient and passionate about coding, modeling and analyzing to continue learning and optimizing. As a scientist, Niko

Dear petowners! Do you already know BugBell GmbH? They offer sustainable pet food based on our insect proteins. Support their current campaign on startnext here. They share our vision: to combat the arising protein gap and resource gap. Additionally, they also educate abozt the topic of pet food. Their healthy feed only uses insects as protein

Our colleague Maricruz ate an insect burger from Bugfoundation GmbH for the first time this week at the University of Leipzig. The first insect burger in Germany. It tasted great! We wish for more such innovative and nutritious products. We at madebymade are currently producing pet food, so our high quality proteins are used for

Charlott covers several areas of work in her position as Executive Assistant, this includes external as well as internal communications. As Dissemination Leader, she communicates on the progress of our EU-funded Waste2Protein. With her background in environmental management, she is driven by sustainability and our huge impact – and to expand it in the future.

With our work, we contribute to 8 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. These are intended to ensure sustainable development on an economic, social and ecological level worldwide by 2030. These 3 pillars are of equal importance and build on each other at the same time – they only work in

Max was the first student ever to write his master’s thesis with us. Max was able to complete his studies in product development (Integrated Design Engineering) at Otto-von-Guericke University Magedburg with a practical master’s thesis in our company. The aim of his work was to develop a device for automating a selected production step. In addition

Today is International Biodiversity Day. At madebymade, we are tackling the issue of biodiversity head on: by replacing soy and fishmeal as protein sources with the insect protein we produce. Fishmeal is used in aquaculture feed and contributes greatly to the overfishing of our oceans. Soy also has a devastating impact on biodiversity, as immense

Our colleague Maricruz Bermudez Serrano has been with us for three months. At our company, she ensures the continuous high quality of our products. With her background as food engineer and her experience in food safety and quality management, she has the best prerequisites for us. In a project with the University of Leipzig, she is working

This is Dennis, our reproduction manager. As a biologist and insect enthusiast he has the ideal qualifications to take care of all our animals. He deals with the feed composition of our crayfish in the project TEMIFUGA which we run together with the University of Leipzig. He is also responsible for the well-being of our

This is our colleague Yannik Weinreis. He creates efficient planning processes for our projects and works in the area of product research and development. For this purpose, he analyses product characteristics, supervises test series, and tests various valorization strategies. Already during his studies of agricultural sciences (B.Sc.) and agricultural and food economics (M. Sc.) at

Our colleague Justus von Sonntag optimizes technology. Here he is checking possible interfaces of our container control system with the control system he co-developes for the TEMIFUGA project at the University of Leipzig for a possible crab breeding system. Justus studied process engineering at Karlsruher Institute for Technologie (KIT) and is familiar with air conditioning technology. His experience in

Despite the big cold snap over the weekend, our larvae are doing very well. Our modular construction is based on shipping containers, which of course all function independently of each other, regardless of whether it is warm or cold outside. The temperatures in our reproduction containers for our flies and young larvae remain pleasantly warm

From the first shipping container in production to the complete production plant and from the foundation to the finished office complex. An incredible amount has happened for us and that despite the global pandemic occuring in this year. All this was only possible because of the sweat, commitment and ambition of our team and all

Here our black soldier flies cavort in the Reproduction module. As you can see, we feel very comfortable among our flies. Only those who are visiting us for the very first time have fear of contact. In this module, they lay the eggs from which larvae later hatch and is therefore of great importance as

We are state winners of the KfW competition Gründen 2020! Many thanks for this to KfW, which is one of the leading funding banks in the world. Since 1948 it has been committed to improving economic, social and ecological living conditions worldwide. In the KfW competition, more than 500 companies were evaluated according to their

The heart of our plant: the technology. You can see the development from the beginning of this year until now. As you can see, this room has been filled with everything from cables and pipes to the most important highlight: a coffee machine. Compared to the total size of the plant of 2500m2, this area

This week we received an elementary final part of our production. This was positioned in the part of the hall where the processing, the last steps in the production for the production of the protein flour, is located. In order to complete our plant before the end of this year, the individual modules now only

A pleasant nutty smell led the whole team to our oil press to admire and smell our final product. It is produced during pressing of the dried larvae of our black soldier flies. This last step of production increases the ratio of protein to fat; the protein flour has a residual fat content of less

Insight into our plant: our modules for rearing the BSF larvae are located behind our 1400m² production plant. The containers are delivered when they can no longer be used at sea. We then remove the front wall and party the side walls. In this way we can stack our rearing trays to their full height.

We pull through: modular is not only the structure of our plant, but also our office space. This is exactly how our managing directors Kai Hempel and Dr. Jonas Finck started as their first office in a container of this design. So the founding team fitted into one single container and today we already have

All together! Here we have painted the floor on the area of our old pilot plant together. The paint used for this dries so quickly that it requires the combined efforts of both the production and office teams. In the future, our module for processing the larvae will be placed here. It’s difficult to imagine

We use the black soldier fly in our insect breeding plant. They are very suitable for industrial breeding because of its special characteristics. All they need is a pleasant environment. This means above all the right temperature and light conditions. Besides, they do not need any food; water is completely sufficient. The larvae of the

Nothing to see: until recently our pilot plant was located here on an area of 400m². It is now completely integrated into our large plant. On this 400m², our managing directors Kai Hempel and Dr. Jonas Finck have continuously built and improved the concept of madebymade over the last two years. Our first investors from Leipzig Golzern Holding

Our reproduction module is making progress: the first container here is already inhabited. Little by little, the other containers are also being processed so that our flies feel comfortable here. In this module a certain temperature is very important to create a pleasant environment for the black soldier flies, which originally come from rather tropical

The construction of our modular plant is extremely complex: each one of our modules requires a different number of containers. Even within one module it might happen that containers have different requirements. This picture shows one of our reproduction containers, where the interior is worked on. As many of our processes are completely new developments,

The whole madebymade team! madebymade not only attracts people from the region, such as Marina, who travels here by bicycle. Also people from far away take the way, like Jan, who moved here from Lake Constance. Our team is characterized by the fact that every employee is motivated to make the world a better place

We are lucky that despite COVID-19 we are not too restricted and are able to work. A great part of our Team which usually works in the office is able to work from home. Meanwhile, the construction phase is getting more and more exciting. Video Chat is an important measure to connect in These times,

From June 4 to 6, the International Scientific Congress on Waste Management was held at the University Federico Henríquez y Carvajal (UFHEC) in Santo Domingo, where Managing Director Dr. Jonas Finck gave a lecture. In his presentation “The potential of insects as decomposers in the recycling industry” he informed about the enormous potential of the