CellX Announces China’s First Cultivated Meat Pilot Factory
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Shanghai-based cellular agriculture company CellX and food manufacturing specialists Tofflon have signed a strategic partnership agreement to develop the first cultivated meat pilot plant in mainland China.
CellX and Tofflon have partnered to develop cellular agriculture at a fast and large scale, claiming that this method is more effective and sustainable compared to traditional factory farming. By combining CellX's expertise in cultivated meat with Tofflon's biological equipment and production capability, the partnership aims to accelerate the scale-up of cultivated meat in the Asian market through the use of a new facility. The goal is to meet the demand for food in China, which has a population of over one billion people.
CellX says the new facilities will allow for a thousand-liter scale of its serum-free media suspension lines. The facility will be home to multiple thousand-liter bioreactors and offer consumer tasting space in a move the companies say marks China’s first “transparent food space” for cultivated meat research and development, pilot production, and public tasting. In the future, CellX and Tofflon will work together to bring cultivated meat to consumers in China and around the world.
Founded in 1993, based in Shanghai, Tofflon provides process support, core equipment, consumables, and system engineering solutions for global drug and food manufacturing. CellX is a cellular agriculture company based in Shanghai, working to bring cultivated meat products to consumers in China and around the world.
