Austrian Meals-Tech startup Revo Meals offered the Meals Fabricator X2, the world’s first industrial manufacturing methodology for 3D printed meals, setting a milestone in meals manufacturing innovation. The 3D course of allows new product classes for the primary time, comparable to genuine whole-cut meat alternate options or merchandise with custom-made shapes, buildings, or textures. Revo Meals is scaling up the manufacturing capability by 2024 and opened up the primary public funding alternative into the venture.
Industrialization of 3D meals printing
The Meals Fabricator X2 encompasses 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 expertise.
Utilizing a high-precision extrusion system, completely different elements will be mixed in any predefined construction, enabling the manufacturing of beforehand “unattainable” merchandise. Which means new meals classes comparable to genuine meat alternate options or merchandise with revolutionary buildings, shapes or textures can now be produced at giant scale. This expertise allows the brand new meals business section of “mass customization” for the primary time, that means the versatile management of product parameters comparable to sizes, shapes, supplies or texture, with out the necessity for {hardware} changes throughout the course of.
Digitalization of the meals business
As an Trade 4.0 manufacturing methodology, 3D meals printing opens up new alternatives within the standard meals business by digitization: the expertise 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 expertise allows a very new strategy to artistic product growth and meals manufacturing. One new space of software 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 important for whole-cut meat alternate options comparable to steaks or fish filets however has not but been achievable with every other expertise at a big scale, till now.
“3D meals printing on an industrial degree permits us to vary the best way 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 speak in confidence to meals product builders with the assistance of this expertise,” stated Dr Robin Simsa, CEO of Revo Meals GmbH.
Alternative to hitch Revo Meals
As a proof of expertise, THE FILET – Impressed by Salmon was produced in September 2023, utilizing this expertise for the primary time (Revo FFX1), marking the primary scale-up of this 3D printing system. This salmon filet various based mostly on mycoprotein was the primary 3D printed meals out there in supermarkets and has confirmed that there’s a excessive curiosity of shoppers and retailers on this expertise.
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 will likely be accomplished over the subsequent two years (2024 – 2025). Revo Meals plans to broaden manufacturing capability in two extra main upscaling steps.
An funding in Revo Meals is feasible from January 18 to April 18, 2024. At first of the primary public funding spherical, the corporate has already raised €435,000, underlining the general public curiosity within the new expertise and the corporate’s mission. Investments in Revo Meals are made through 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 expertise. The world’s oceans are the most important 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 strategy is to make use of new applied sciences to revolutionize meals manufacturing and create utterly new fish and meat alternate options with 3D expertise and its versatile manufacturing system, the Revo Meals Fabricator X2.