According to Reuters, JBS, a meatpacking firm from Brazil, announced yesterday that they had started constructing Spain’s initial artificial meat production facility.
BioTech Foods, a subsidiary of JPS, is developing a plant that will be completed by mid-next year.
The factory is the first fruit of BioTech Foods’ “investMEAT project”, which involves research into cell lines, cultured media, and biomaterials that scale up cultivated meat production to the industrial level.
According to JBS, the plant should produce more than 1,000 tonnes of cultivated beef a year. This may expand to 4,000 tonnes in the medium term.
Eduardo Noronha, JBS’ head of value-added business, said: “The new BioTech plant puts JBS in a unique position to lead the segment and ride this wave of innovation.”
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