The Netherlands-based Mosa Meat, a startup that claims to be the leader in the cultivated meat space, announced on Wednesday that it is constructing a new industrial production development centre close to the present Mosa Meat pilot facility in Maastricht.
The Dutch company, which grows beef directly from animal cells, is now housing industrial-size production lines and enabling bigger production quantities of beef.
The new production facility
Mosa Meatโs CEO, Maarten Bosch, says, โWeโve expanded our space by 2,760 square metres in our next phase, which brings Mosa Meatโs total footprint to 7,340 square metres. This makes us the largest cultivated meat campus in the world, and provides a solid foundation for our European and global commercialisation plans.โ
The industrial production development centre is expected to be launched in 2023.
By 2030, the worldโs meat consumption is expected to increase by more than 40 per cent, and Mosa Meat says it is a part of the rising international movement to change the way meat is produced. Since the companyโs inception in 2016, it has concentrated on beef because it has the biggest carbon footprint of any protein.
In the past few years, the company has expanded its workforce to over 160 people, with over 80 scientists and the most PhDs in the sector. Mosa Meatโs production crew has increased from 3 to 15 persons in the past three months.
The business has also increased its footprint in its present facilities, including activities at Brightlands and the current Maastricht pilot plant, where R&D capacity is still expanding. All of these together move Mosa Meat closer to commercialisation.
Brief about Mosa Meat
Founded in 2016 by Mark Post and Peter Verstrate, and currently led by CEO Maarten Bosch, Mosa Meat is a food technology company that claims to have found a new way to make real meat for people in a sustainable, healthy, and animal-friendly way.
The company has already introduced the worldโs first cultivated beef hamburger, by growing it directly from cow cells, in 2013.
In 2018, Mosa Meat raised โฌ9.5M in funding from Blue Horizon, M Ventures, Bell Food Group, Nutreco, Mitsubishi Corporation, Leonardo DiCaprio, and other high-profile investors.
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