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 heart to reinforce its technological capabilities, and progress in direction of worldwide advertising of its domesticate steaks in direction of the top of 2022, topic to regulatory approval.
Aleph Farms is within the forefront of the world’s cultivated meat sector, producing meat from dwell 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 realize regulatory and advertising approval. The corporate will optimize processes in direction of bigger scale manufacturing services that are set to be constructed throughout 2022-2024.
Aleph Farms VP manufacturing and operations Eyal Rivlin mentioned, “Aleph Farms workforce 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 onerous to get right here, and it’s thrilling to see the infrastructure that may assist convey 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 employees. In Israel alone, Aleph Farms has almost doubled its workforce during the last yr.
Aleph Farms mentioned that the brand new facility lays the inspiration for Aleph Farms to launch a brand new division referred to as Aleph Frontiers, an incubator of innovation that may function a pipeline for brand new merchandise whereas additionally validating new ideas for product improvement. Aleph Farms VP R&D Dr. Neta Lavon, who was not too long ago promoted to CTO, is main the enlargement of Aleph Farms’ technological platform for various kinds of cell-cultured merchandise and also will function the top of the Frontiers Division.
Dr. Lavon mentioned, “We’re dedicated to driving influence via innovation. That is why now we have been hyper-focused on creating essentially the most superior expertise within the cultivated meat business. Increasing our R&D footprint on this new facility will assist us drive thrilling new developments for the sphere of cultivated animal merchandise.”
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