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Fermentation, cultivated meat and plant-based systems — the science, the scale-up economics and the route to price parity.
No Meat Factory's first WARN notice set closure for 16 September and counted 123 workers. An amended notice received on 28 July said operations had already stopped on 27 July, affecting about 113. Federal rules do allow notice after the fact — but they place the burden of proof on the employer.
Eight months after liquidation, the only Ÿnsect asset with a buyer is the 2016 pilot, bought by a co-founder's new firm to make fertiliser. The flagship farm at Poulainville — inaugurated in 2021, never finished, needing a reported €130m to complete — is now marketed on its power connection.
NHC Announcement No. 7 of 2025, issued 27 November 2025, approved Fusarium venenatum protein on strains A3/5 and TB01, with a 50% minimum protein spec and four excluded populations but no daily intake limit. Fushine's disclosed line is 1,200 tonnes against Quorn's 67,000.
Solar Foods hit the parameters for its full 160-tonne design capacity in October 2025 and booked EUR 0.1 million of revenue in the first half of 2026. Calysta's Chongqing plant is rated at 20,000 tonnes. Same technology, different feedstock, different buyer.
Parima's cultivated duck is quoted at €7/kg, at a 99% cut on earlier runs, at €5–10/kg as a target, and — by the same consultancy that produced the €7 — at low €40s/kg industry-wide for 2026. Each is defensible. None is comparable, and one changed status from model to fact without new evidence.
Döhler is now producing Superbrewed Food's SB1 commercially — fermentation in the Netherlands, spray drying in Germany — and has invested through Döhler Ventures. Superbrewed's founder says a completed tech transfer is what separates this from the contract-manufacturing 'paper deals' being signed across the sector.
Singapore cleared the Thin-Cut Steak on 4 August 2026, roughly 47 months after Aleph filed. The steak is 10–20% cultivated cells, and the contract manufacturer's line is not operational until H1 2027. Israel's 2023 clearance was conditional on a GMP inspection of a plant Aleph has since stepped back from.
Vow beat its own 2025 output forecast by roughly twofold, runs the largest food-grade cell-culture line in the world, and has an approval that created an entire regulatory category. It has also cut staff twice, changed chief executive, and moved from selling its own food to manufacturing other companies'.