China To Open First Cultivated Meat Pilot Factory
Chinese cultivated meat pilot factory to be commissioned by mid-2023.
Shanghai-based cellular agriculture company CellX and food manufacturing specialists Tofflon have signed a strategic partnership agreement to develop the first cultivated meat pilot plant in mainland China. CellX told Green Queen that construction has already started this month and they expect the plant to be operational by mid-2023.
In the race to feed China’s 1-billion-plus population, cultivated meat startup CellX and food manufacturing pioneer Tofflon say their partnership to develop cellular agriculture rapidly and at scale is more efficient and more sustainable than conventional factory farming methods.
CellX says the new facilities will allow for a thousand-liter scale of its serum-free media suspension lines. The facility will be home to multiple thousand-liter bioreactors and offer consumer tasting space in a move the companies say marks China’s first “transparent food space” for cultivated meat research and development, pilot production, and public tasting.
Source: emeat by materials greenqueen.com.hk