Israeli cultured meat firm Aleph Farms has introduced that it has moved into its new headquarters in Rehovot. The brand new 6,000 sq. meters facility, at an funding of NIS 40 million, will increase the corporate’s operations six-fold, and can enable Aleph Farms to launch pilot manufacturing for cultivated steaks, construct an R&D middle to boost its technological capabilities, and progress in the direction of worldwide advertising of its domesticate steaks in the direction of the tip of 2022, topic to regulatory approval.
Aleph Farms is within the forefront of the world’s cultivated meat sector, producing meat from stay animal cells, with out genetic engineering. Final yr the corporate raised $105 million – one of many greatest financing rounds accomplished in Israel’s food-tech sector.
The brand new facility will enable Aleph Farms to provide 10 tons of cultivated minute steak (skinny beef slices) – its first product – and speed up its efforts to achieve regulatory and advertising approval. The corporate will optimize processes in the direction of bigger scale manufacturing services that are set to be constructed throughout 2022-2024.
Aleph Farms VP manufacturing and operations Eyal Rivlin stated, “Aleph Farms crew is obsessed with altering the world round us, one chew at a time. Our new facility permits us to scale our manufacturing capabilities and launch restricted portions of our steak across the finish of the yr, pending regulatory approval. We’ve labored arduous to get right here, and it’s thrilling to see the infrastructure that can assist carry our imaginative and prescient to life.”
The brand new facility is situated close to the corporate’s present workplace in Rehovot, Israel’s biotech hub and it’ll quickly home greater than 100 of the corporate’s workers. In Israel alone, Aleph Farms has practically doubled its crew during the last yr.
Aleph Farms stated that the brand new facility lays the inspiration for Aleph Farms to launch a brand new division known as Aleph Frontiers, an incubator of innovation that can function a pipeline for brand spanking new merchandise whereas additionally validating new ideas for product improvement. Aleph Farms VP R&D Dr. Neta Lavon, who was just lately promoted to CTO, is main the enlargement of Aleph Farms’ technological platform for various kinds of cell-cultured merchandise and also will function the pinnacle of the Frontiers Division.
Dr. Lavon stated, “We’re dedicated to driving influence by means of innovation. That is why we have now been hyper-focused on growing probably the most superior expertise within the cultivated meat trade. Increasing our R&D footprint on this new facility will assist us drive thrilling new developments for the sphere of cultivated animal merchandise.”
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on February 17, 2022.
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