Impossible Foods builds new facility to scale up production
According to Fast Company, Impossible Foods is building out a former baked-goods factory near the Oakland, Calif. airport in order to scale up production of the Impossible Burger—a plant-based meat designed to look and taste like real meat.
According to Fast Company, Impossible Foods is building out a former baked-goods factory near the Oakland, Calif. airport in order to scale up production of the Impossible Burger—a plant-based meat designed to look and taste like real meat.
Currently, the “meat” is being produced in a 10,000-sq-ft pilot facility in Silicon Valley and a 1,500-sq-ft space in New Jersey. When the new facility, at around 60,000 sq ft, is fully ramped up later this year it will be able to produce at least 1 million lb of Impossible Burger meat a month—250 times more than today.
The burger is currently available at 11 restaurants, including three that launched it on March 23. But by the end of the year, the company expects to supply 1,000 restaurants. It just signed a deal to have the burgers featured in the San Francisco Giant’s baseball stadium.