Austrian Meals-Tech startup Revo Meals offered the Meals Fabricator X2, the world’s first industrial manufacturing technique for 3D printed meals, setting a milestone in meals manufacturing innovation. The 3D course of permits new product classes for the primary time, resembling genuine whole-cut meat alternate options or merchandise with custom-made shapes, constructions, or textures. Revo Meals is scaling up the manufacturing capability by means of 2024 and opened up the primary public funding alternative into the venture.
Industrialization of 3D meals printing
The Meals Fabricator X2 incorporates a novel multi-nozzle system that permits steady meals manufacturing, marking the primary time that mass manufacturing of merchandise is feasible with 3D meals printing know-how.
Utilizing a high-precision extrusion system, completely different components will be mixed in any predefined construction, enabling the manufacturing of beforehand “unimaginable” merchandise. Which means that new meals classes resembling genuine meat alternate options or merchandise with progressive constructions, shapes or textures can now be produced at massive scale. This know-how permits the brand new meals business phase of “mass customization” for the primary time, that means the versatile management of product parameters resembling sizes, shapes, supplies or texture, with out the necessity for {hardware} changes through the course of.
Digitalization of the meals business
As an Trade 4.0 manufacturing technique, 3D meals printing opens up new alternatives within the standard meals business by means of digitization: the know-how makes it doable to react flexibly to demand, produce completely different merchandise in small batches and keep away from meals waste in manufacturing.
3D printing know-how permits a very new method to artistic product growth and meals manufacturing. One new space of utility is the customization of texture palettes for plant-based meat alternate options. The managed integration of a fats part right into a plant-based protein fiber matrix is crucial for whole-cut meat alternate options resembling steaks or fish filets however has not but been achievable with another know-how at a big scale, till now.
“3D meals printing on an industrial degree permits us to vary the way in which we take into consideration meals. Merchandise that have been beforehand very unique and extra more likely to be present in connoisseur eating places can now be produced on a big scale. I’m excited concerning the new artistic alternatives that confide in meals product builders with the assistance of this know-how,” mentioned Dr Robin Simsa, CEO of Revo Meals GmbH.
Alternative to affix Revo Meals
As a proof of know-how, THE FILET – Impressed by Salmon was produced in September 2023, utilizing this know-how for the primary time (Revo FFX1), marking the primary scale-up of this 3D printing system. This salmon filet different based mostly on mycoprotein was the primary 3D printed meals accessible in supermarkets and has confirmed that there’s a excessive curiosity of shoppers and retailers on this know-how.
To extend manufacturing capability and meet demand, Revo Meals is now asserting its first public funding alternative within the type of digital firm shares. With this capital, the primary stage of upscaling shall be accomplished over the subsequent two years (2024 – 2025). Revo Meals plans to develop manufacturing capability in two further main upscaling steps.
An funding in Revo Meals is feasible from January 18 to April 18, 2024. Firstly of the primary public funding spherical, the corporate has already raised €435,000, underlining the general public curiosity within the new know-how and the corporate’s mission. Investments in Revo Meals are made by way of the Germany-based green-tech funding platform FunderNation.
No extra fish within the Ocean
We face world environmental challenges – Revo Meals affords new options based mostly on sustainable know-how. The world’s oceans are the biggest ecosystem on our planet. However 90% of the fish species are on the verge of exploitation, 30% of that are already utterly overfished. Individuals have understood that one thing should change, and so more and more strict fishing legal guidelines are being launched. Toxins and microplastic ranges in standard fish merchandise and the specter of destabilization of the marine ecosystem are additionally resulting in adjustments within the 400-billion-dollar fish market.
Revo Meals’s disruptive method is to make use of new applied sciences to revolutionize meals manufacturing and create utterly new fish and meat alternate options with 3D know-how and its versatile manufacturing system, the Revo Meals Fabricator X2.
