Austrian food-tech firm Revo Meals has launched the Meals Fabricator X2, a brand new high-throughput meals 3D printer. In keeping with the corporate, that is the ‘world’s first industrial manufacturing methodology for 3D printed meals.’
The Meals Fabricator X2 reportedly affords high-volume manufacturing of a spread of whole-cut meat options and different meals merchandise possessing custom-made shapes, buildings and textures.
Revo Meals has additionally introduced efforts to scale up its manufacturing capabilities. To realize this, the corporate has introduced a public funding alternative, making digital shares obtainable to buy. Open till April 18, 2024, the capital raised shall be used to upscale the corporate over the subsequent two years. Two further main upscaling steps will then comply with, starting in 2026.
“3D meals printing on an industrial stage permits us to alter the best way we take into consideration meals. Merchandise that had been beforehand very unique and extra more likely to be present in connoisseur eating places can now be produced on a big scale,” commented Revo Meals CEO Dr Robin Simsa.
“I’m excited in regards to the new inventive alternatives that speak in confidence to meals product builders with the assistance of this know-how.”
Meals Fabricator X2: ‘industrial-scale meals 3D printing.’
Revo Meals traces its origins to a 2017 EU-based additive manufacturing analysis challenge by a bunch of worldwide college students. This crew subsequently developed a novel extrusion-based 3D printing course of for producing salmon, below the buying and selling identify Legendary Vish. Since rebranding to Revo Meals, the corporate has upscaled manufacturing, and now sells its 3D printed meat substitutes in supermarkets.
The corporate’s merchandise have been developed to beat world environmental challenges, providing a sustainable various to conventional meals manufacturing and procurement strategies.
In keeping with Revo Meals, 90% of fish species are on the verge of exploitation, 30% of that are presently being overfished. What’s extra, excessive toxin and microplastic ranges in standard fish merchandise, in addition to marine ecosystem destabilization, are reportedly resulting in distinct modifications within the $400 billion fish market.
To capitalize on this shift, the corporate’s novel know-how fabricates fish and meat options at massive volumes. In September 2023 the corporate launched “THE FILET – Impressed by Salmon” proof of idea, 3D printed with the Meals Fabricator X1. This 3D printed salmon filet various, based mostly on mycoprotein, was the primary 3D printed meals product to be offered in supermarkets.
The corporate’s newest meals 3D printer, the Meals Fabricator X2, contains a multi-nozzle 3D printing system, permitting for steady meals manufacturing. In keeping with Revo Meals, this marks the primary time that mass manufacturing is feasible with meals 3D printing know-how.
This new 3D printer additionally contains a high-precision extrusion system, permitting a number of substances to be mixed in any predefined construction. As such, novel meals equivalent to genuine meat options and merchandise with modern buildings, shapes or textures will be produced at massive scale.
The corporate additionally claims that its new providing permits ‘mass customization’ of meals manufacturing, facilitating versatile management of dimension, form, supplies and texture, with out making main {hardware} changes throughout 3D printing.
Is 3D printed meals the longer term?
Meals 3D printing affords notable sustainability advantages by producing lifelike, meat options. Revo Meals isn’t the one firm to supply 3D printed meals choices. Redefine Meat, a meals 3D printing agency, additionally affords commercially obtainable 3D printed animal-free meat.
In 2020, the corporate unveiled Alt-Steak, its first 3D printed plant-based product. Predicted utilizing the corporate’s proprietary meals 3D printers, Redefine Meat claims that its meat various is 95% extra sustainable than its standard counterpart.
The corporate has additionally rolled out its vary of New-Meat 3D printed meals merchandise to eating places and resorts in Israel. This plant-based portfolio contains 3D-printed hamburgers, sausages, lamb kebabs, Center Japanese ‘cigars,’ and floor beef.
“We’ve achieved a stage of superiority in style and texture that shocked even a number of the most acknowledged cooks on the planet, and our distinctive technological capabilities allow us to exchange each a part of the cow for the primary time,” commented Ben-Shitrit, CEO and Co-founder of Redefine Meat.
Elsewhere, China-based 3D printer producer affords the Wiiboox meals 3D printing extruder, which will be built-in into a spread of ordinary desktop 3D printers. A value efficient various to expensive meals 3D printers, the LuckyBot retails at simply $159, and might extrude chocolate, peanut butter, cream, cheese, jam, mashed potatoes, salad dressing, and different gentle meals. The extruder can fabricate each 2D and 3D customized meals designs, and is focused in the direction of espresso and dessert companies, cooks, and bakers.
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Featured picture reveals Revo Meals’ 3D printed salmon on the Meals Fabricator X2 manufacturing line. Picture through Revo Meals.
