With the support of a €2.99 million (US$3.26 million) grant from the Finnish government, Synbio Powerlabs is transforming a large food-grade facility close to the capital of Helsinki into a cutting-edge multi-purpose center for food innovation.
The new facility, which will go live in early 2025, has been designed to help scale the production capabilities of start-ups operating in innovative industries such as precision fermentation, biomass fermentation and cultivated meat. The facility has pilot scale equipment and production scales at 10,000 L and 27,000 L, and will boast six 250,000 liter manufacturing vessels. Once opened, the center will be the largest facility of its kind in the world.
Under the terms of the agreement, Ivy Farm will be the first to demonstrate the scalability of mammalian cells in food-grade vessels at this level of output.