Vow's cultured meat facility unveiled in Sydney

Now that Vow's Factory 1 cultured meat facility has been officially opened in Alexandria, Sydney, the company has already commenced development of its Factory 2 to produce 100x this scale.

Claimed to be the largest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, Factory 1 has the capability to produce as much as 30 tonnes of cultured meat annually.

While the facility has already produced a number of successful runs, it was ‘officially’ opened last week by Vow’s co-founders George Peppou and Tim Noakesmith joined by the Hon Matt Kean, New South Wales Treasurer and Minister for Energy.

“Innovations in bio-manufacturing, like the ones happening right here at Vow’s new Sydney facility, will help NSW continue to feed the world and build climate change resilience,” said Kean on Twitter.

Process engineers operating Factory 1.

Vow’s technology can leverage not only standard livestock cells such as pork and chicken, but also the cells of exotic and less conventional animals like kangaroo, alpaca and water buffalo. It then blends the technology with the culinary world to create new food products. Back in 2020 with its kangaroo dumplings, Vow became one of the first companies to make a food product from the cells of an undomesticated animal, instead of the animal itself.

French onion dish with Morsel, Vow's first product.

As the company’s products are approved for sale in Singapore, its Singapore factory will handle commercial production for its first cultured meat product. The Singapore factory is on track to launch before the end of the year.

Together with its existing research and development facility, Vow is now able to develop new cultured meat products and take them through to commercial production all under one roof.

Founded in April 2019, Vow now has a team of over 60 people in Sydney, Australia, and has submitted its first product for regulatory approval in Australia.

The first stage of construction on Factory 2 is set to be complete by the second half of 2024.