Israeli foodtech innovator, Ever After Foods (EAF), is undertaking a cultivated meat collaboration with global equipment manufacturer, Bühler, aiming to help food producers around the globe produce cultivated meat efficiently at mass scale.
Bühler and EAF will work together to bring a commercial-scale cultivated meat production system, which allows commercial production at ten-fold lower scale than existing technologies, to market.
EAF CEO, Eyal Rosenthal, said the cultivated meat industry must move beyond relying on pharma-based technologies, and adopt solutions specifically designed for food production.
“Our strategic collaboration with Bühler, a global leader in food equipment, is a critical step toward delivering scalable and efficient technologies that empower cultivated meat producers and food companies to bring their products to market,” said Rosenthal.
“Together, we are driving the development of tailored solutions to sustainably scale cultivated meat production.”
Bühler’s equipment experience will help to develop a way to enable market-ready, sustainable, healthy, and affordable cellular products that can address increasingly complex food system challenges, reduce environmental impact and improve food security. EAF will provide the technology to deliver commercial-scale production systems specifically designed to meet the needs of the cultivated meat sector.
EAF and Bühler have a history of collaboration. Bühler was one of the founders of The Cultured Hub, a cutting-edge biotech facility dedicated to cellular agriculture production in Kemptthal, Switzerland, and EAF is one of the companies in the community.
EAF is also working closely with select cultivated meat companies and leaders in the food industry to accelerate the development and global deployment of its proprietary edible packed-bed (EPB) technology platform. It aims to enable producers to reduce production costs by over 90 per cent, as well as offering key biological advantages, including enhanced nutritional value and flavor.
Bühler CTO, Ian Roberts, said the global food chain faces significant challenges in successfully and sustainably feeding the growing population.
“How we produce and consume protein will continue to change, and requires a transition of our protein system to deliver this. Powering cultivated meat production at scale with a patented production system, Ever After Foods will help the food industry keep pace with the protein demands of a growing global population,” said Roberts.
The company has successfully demonstrated its technology in collaboration with industry partners, producing both muscle and fat tissues for beef, chicken, duck, and fish cells.
Bühler is a global group with an office in Melbourne, which supplies the Oceania region with solutions for grain handling, milling, malting, brewing, nuts and seeds processing, chocolate production, meat alternatives, pet food, and animal feed production – offering opportunity for Australian cultivated meat producers to access the equipment once it has been developed.
Recently Australian companies such as Vow and Magic Valley have been in the media for their work in the cultured meat sector, ready for local distribution as soon as the food standards code will allow it.
