Mosa Meat, a pacesetter within the cultivated meat area that grows beef instantly from animal cells, and unveiled the primary cultivated hamburger in 2013, has introduced the subsequent step within the scale up of the corporate’s cultivated beef manufacturing services.
A brand new industrial manufacturing improvement heart is being developed near Mosa Meat’s current pilot facility in Maastricht. After demonstrating the meat cultivation course of at pilot scale, Mosa Meat is now prepared for the subsequent section of growth, housing industrial-size manufacturing strains and enabling bigger manufacturing portions of beef.
“We’ve expanded our area by 30,000 sq. toes in our subsequent section, which brings Mosa Meat’s whole footprint to over 77,000 sq. toes,” stated Maarten Bosch, Mosa Meat’s CEO. “This makes us the biggest cultivated meat campus on the planet and gives a strong basis for our European and international commercialization plans.”
World meat consumption is projected to develop greater than 40% by 2030, and Mosa Meat is a part of a rising international motion to rework the best way meat is produced. Beef particularly, is the protein with the very best carbon footprint, which is why Mosa Meat has centered on it for the reason that firm was based in 2016.
Mosa Meat has grown to over 160 staff, with over 80 scientists and the biggest variety of PhDs within the business in only a few years’ time. The manufacturing group has grown five-fold within the final three months to fifteen members. Concurrently the corporate has additionally expanded its footprint at current areas, together with operations at Brightlands and the present pilot facility in Maastricht, the place R&D capability continues to develop. Collectively, this brings Mosa Meat one step nearer in direction of commercialization.
Mosa Meat plans to announce the launch of its industrial manufacturing improvement heart in 2023.
