The costs of many components for making pet food continue to rise, especially for canned dog and cat food, and are increasingly driving up retail prices.

Learn how pet food producers in Hungary and other European countries are coping with rising energy costs and shortages, now and for the future.

Ordering a perfect cup of Earl Grey tea from a Star Trek-style replicator remains for the next generation. However, small-scale 3D printing of pet treats may not be science fiction for long. Those futuristically created treats may themselves contain equally unconventional ingredients, such as insect and algae proteins.

Plant-based pet food ingredients continue to gain interest from consumers and producers, but making pet foods with them is not necessarily straightforward.

In Edgerton and Emporia, Kansas, USA. Simmons will invest approximately US$115 million in the pet food manufacturing plants and other facilities.

Find out more about high-pressure processing, how it works and its benefits.

Certain criteria influence why pet food formulators choose specific ingredients for new recipes to be processed in extruders.

In one insect-based pet food ingredient rearing facility, very few humans will be needed to care for the six-legged livestock.

Few researchers have stopped to ask if academic and market research provides the specific insights that pet food industry executives feel they need.