MyCelia

About us

Mycelia was founded in 1985 by mycologist Magda Verfaillie. In a first stage she started a small size spawn laboratory as a center for spawn research on a university level, containing a small spawn production unit. In a second stage in 1990, a larger spawn laboratory was set up which had a production capacity of 15.000 liters (ca. 12 tonnes) of spawn per week. In 2008, Mycelia moved to the actual production site in Nevele, which has a production capacity of 30.000 liters (ca. 24 tonnes) of spawn per week.

Mycelia's core activities: mycelium production, technology transfer and R&D.

1. Mycelia produces and commerializes mycelium products for different purposes. Mycelia rigourously keeps a large collection of strains. Of these, it produces mother cultures, mother spawn and spawn which are sold all over the world. We have an excellent reputation as a reliable supplier of fresh mycelium products of an even and impeccable quality. Our customers can choose from an extended strain list.

• mushroom spawn is produced on various recipes, and shipped by refrigerated truck or plane.
• mother cultures and mother spawn are shipped worldwide, by courier.
• spawn plugs are shipped worldwide, by courier.
• mushroom substrate is produced on various recipes, and shipped by refrigerated truck or plane.

2. Mycelia decided to share its knowledge with existing and would-be spawn producers. We offer individual training courses and substrate group trainings, which are adapted to our customer's needs. Mycelia's strong points are:

• We have a solid scientific basis and a long standing experience in mycelium production. These enable us to produce spawn of the highest standard.
• We have designed and reorganized a large number of high-tech production labs with a large output, as well as a practical, technically non-complicated spawn laboratories for smaller yields.
• We have an extensive insight in the starting-up problems of production units, while being able to offer solutions.
• We have offered top-quality personal and group training programmes to a large list of spawn and substrate producers from all over the world.

3. Mycelia is involved in a number of R&D activities in view of constant improvement of its production:

• We work closely together with the lab of technology of KAHO St.-Lieven, in Gent. Combined research on solid state fermentations and submerged cultures is simultaneously carried out in both research laboratories.
• We are a participant and/or Prime Proposer in several EU- Cooperative Research Programmes, specifically focusing on the understanding of mycelium and mushroom production.
• Each newly developed type of Microsac and Microbox from our sister companies SacO2 and Combiness is tested in Mycelia's laboratories .
• We constantly develop our own machines and produce and sell small and larger scale simple-solution production units.