Plant & Bean to create Europe’s fake-meat capital
Plant & Bean’s new factory will eventually churn out 55,000 tonnes a year of alternative protein products
09 December 2020 - 14:47
London — Surrounded by some of England’s most fertile farmland, the town of Boston will become Europe’s fake-meat capital next month with the opening of a giant factory making plant-based burgers and sausages.
Plant & Bean’s new factory, the largest in Europe, will eventually churn out 55,000 tonnes a year of alternative protein products. That will provide the faux-meat industry with the scale to narrow the price and quality gap with conventional meat products, according to CEO Edwin Bark...
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