Czech start-up Bene Meat Applied sciences has launched the primary samples of its cultured meat for pet meals, and is at the moment on the lookout for an trade associate who will enable the product to look on cabinets in various markets by the top of this 12 months.
Tomaš Kubeš, the corporate’s cofounder, advised Petfood Trade that at this 12 months’s Interzoo 2024 present in Nuremberg, Germany, the corporate offered the primary samples of cultivated meat chunks in gravy for cats and canines, manufactured with the usage of cultivated cells.
“We’re main the race for the introduction of cultivated meat into pet meals, and we’re on the lookout for companions who will be part of efforts with our firm,” Kubeš stated. “We wish to staff up with a pet food-producing associate who will use our uncooked materials to course of it into pet meals, and promote it.”
Produced in a laboratory in bioreactors, the uncooked materials is manufactured by non-violently eradicating cells from a residing animal and subsequently rising them in a nutrient-rich medium, in accordance with information from the start-up.
Vendula Kučerová, the corporate’s head of gross sales and advertising technique, stated that Bene Meat Applied sciences expects the product to be launched in late 2024 for distribution in varied markets.
“We’re at the moment excited by launching it within the European Union markets, as we have now already obtained a certificates from the EU’s European Feed Supplies Register. However later, we additionally wish to broaden our presence to different continents,” stated Kučerová.
“We’re observing a powerful curiosity in our product, as a result of it comes with many particular advantages which make it distinctive,” she continued. “The most important one is that this product just isn’t dangerous to any animal, it’s sustainable, but additionally pure and wealthy in protein. Many canines, and particularly cats, are troublesome to influence to develop into vegetarian. Cultivated meat solves this downside.”
In late 2024, Bene Meat Applied sciences can be planning to open a brand new manufacturing facility the place it’ll manufacture cultivated meat for trials, samples and product improvement actions with enterprise companions.
Based mostly within the Czech capitol, Prague, Bene Meat Applied sciences has been engaged on its product since 2020.
Belgian pet meals producer to launch new Polish facility in 2025
Belgium’s United Petfood is advancing building on its new manufacturing facility in Jedlińsk, Poland, hoping to finish the funding subsequent 12 months.
Below the plan, the corporate will inject PLN 180 million (US$45.5 million) into the manufacturing venture, in accordance with the data from native information website Echodnia.eu. As a part of the funding, United Petfood will receive an extra 8,000 sq. meters (86,100 sq. toes) to ramp up manufacturing actions in Jedlińsk, the place the corporate already operates a plant.
Development was launched in 2023. United Petfood is predicted to create 120 new jobs on the manufacturing unit as soon as the brand new facility is commissioned. Utilizing three manufacturing traces, the Polish plant at the moment makes 1,400 tons per 30 days. Following the opening of the brand new facility, the plant’s capacities can be elevated.
Jedlińsk is positioned lower than 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the Polish capitol, Warsaw.
Arrange in 1994, the Belgian producer says it’s a non-public label maker of high-quality dry and moist pet meals, biscuits and snacks. United Petfood operates a community of 24 amenities in varied nations, supplying its output to greater than 95 markets internationally.
As a part of the corporate’s worldwide enlargement drive, most just lately, United Petfood acquired a manufacturing facility in Ølgod, Denmark, earlier this 12 months, and in 2023, the enterprise purchased a manufacturing unit in Nieuwkoop within the Netherlands, in accordance with information from the pet meals specialist.
