Mushroom Grower Permafungi Invests €2.5 Million in New Production Line in Vorst

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The Brussels cooperative Permafungi is building a new production line in the municipality of Forest. It was officially inaugurated on Tuesday and is expected to convert ten tons of organic waste into packaging for businesses every month.

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The Brussels-based company Permafungi, known for its projects around the fungus and circular economy, inaugurated on Tuesday in Forest the largest European mycelium packaging plant. This natural biomaterial is intended to be a sustainable alternative to plastics and other polluting materials. Present for eleven years in Tour & Taxis, where it grows mushrooms from coffee marc, Permafungi moves at a higher speed with a new site of 1,400 m2 in the …