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Mosa Meat, a Netherlands-based company that grows beef directly from animal cells, has opened the largest cultivated meat campus in the world to date. The Center for Advanced Meat Production, Upscaling, and Sustainability, or Mosa C.A.M.P.U.S., is spread across four facilities with a total footprint of 7,340 square meters. The new 2,760-square-meter scale-up facility in Maastricht will start production runs in a matter of days, with a capacity to produce tens of thousands of cultivated hamburgers that even hardcore carnivores will love, according to Mosa Meat CEO Maarten Bosch.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony was attended by Maastricht Mayor Annemarie Penn-te Strake, Governor of Limburg Emile Roemer, and a select group of 50 investors, journalists, and value chain partners from around the world. The ceremony also included a cultivated burger cooking demonstration by two-Michelin-starred chef Hans van Wolde, who praised the beefy taste and mouthfeel of the beef fat of Mosa Meat's product.
Mosa Meat co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer Mark Post said that almost exactly 10 years after introducing cultivated meat to the world, they have a consumer product that they can start making in larger quantities and serving to consumers in Singapore, pending regulatory approval. The company's contract manufacturer in Singapore can also help increase production capacity. The facility is designed to grow as demand increases with regulatory approvals and regional market entries, up to hundreds of thousands of cultivated hamburgers per year.
Mosa Meat's new facility and the potential for scaling up production could revolutionize the meat industry by providing a sustainable alternative to traditional animal farming.
