From Left: Ian
Roberts, CTO at Bühler Group. Fabio
Campanile, Global Head of Science and Technology, Taste and Wellbeing at
Givaudan. Matthew Robin, CEO, ELSA-Mifroma
Group at Migros Industries. Yannick
Gächter, Managing Director of The Cultured Hub
Vernier, Uzwil, and Zurich (Switzerland), June 28, 2022 – The next milestone of The Cultured Hub located in The Valley in Kemptthal near Zurich is complete. The joint venture was agreed by Swiss companies Givaudan, Bühler, and Migros in 2021 with the aim of supporting and accelerating the large-scale development of fermentation and cultivated food products. Cultured meat offers slaughter-free meat with a significantly reduced climate and land use footprint.
The challenges posed by climate change, increasingly depleted resources, and a growing global population expected to exceed 10 billion people by 2050 require a reimagination of our food system. Sustainable food cultivation is key in meeting these challenges. Increased global customer demand for sustainably and ethically produced healthy, and tasty food products further substantiates the need for change.
The joint venture established between Givaudan, Bühler, and Migros intends to provide answers to some of the most pressing issues concerning the food industry. The aim of the self-sustained enterprise, which is wholly owned by Givaudan, Bühler, and Migros, is to provide other companies with facilities, technology, and expertise to support the scale-up of cultured meats, cultured fish, and seafood, as well as precision fermentation products.
Equipped with a product development lab, cell culture, and fermentation capabilities, The Cultured Hub will help start-ups to develop market-ready products, accelerating our journey to readily available, sustainable, healthy, and affordable meat.
“We have broken ground on the future home for cultured food in the heart of Europe in Kemptthal, Switzerland. We have received the necessary approvals to form the joint venture and we have a Managing Director in place and are on track to be helping companies scale from early 2023. The first companies are booking time and facilities,” says Ian Roberts, CTO at Bühler Group.
Today’s world, as most of us are already feeling, has changed dramatically. It is ever more important and increasingly urgent that our food system adapts to ensure we have access to affordable, nutritious, and healthy food for our growing population.
“The Hub can enable start-ups to eliminate funding rounds to build small-scale facilities, thus avoiding equity dilution. Furthermore, given the pressure on global supply chains, this means we can provide a ready-made solution that becomes delivery-time independent,” says Roberts.
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