Nutreco, Fork & Good and Extracellular announce an ecosystem-creating collaboration for cost-efficient scale up of cultivated red meat

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  • Press Release
  • Innovation
18 December 2025

The companies this week announced their strategic collaboration, uniting three industry leaders around a shared purpose: accelerating progress toward scalable, accessible cultivated meat.

The collaboration brings together three complementary strengths:

  • Fork & Good, developing value‑added ingredients for their B2B partners thus delivering high-quality cultivated red meat that is cost-efficient
  • Extracellular, building the biomanu­facturing infrastructure and CDMO-scale R&D needed for industrial deployment
  • Nutreco, advancing scalable, future-ready food systems through next-generation nutritional solutions

Together, the companies are combining purpose, innovation, and expertise to make protein solutions more widely accessible. The partnership’s initial work is focused on high-performing media formulations, ingredient innovation, and dedicated workstreams to streamline cost drivers. It also lays the groundwork for a future supplier relationship for media manufacturing - supporting a resilient, long-term supply chain for cultivated red meat. For Nutreco, the collaboration builds directly on their Innovation Roadmap, which emphasizes that progress in cell nutrition requires bold ideas, technical depth, and strong partnerships. Fork and Good’s goal is keeping food affordable through improving resiliency of the supply chain.

“Working with Nutreco and Extracellular advances our ability to deliver a cost effective, scalable manufacturing platform,” said Jon Lee, Bioprocess Director at Fork & Good. “We’re excited to solve together a major lever in our platform that delivers a highly efficient cultivated meat production process.”

Nutreco’s involvement centers on advancing cell nutrition, ingredient systems, and scalable feed strategies. Vincent Krudde of Nutreco commented: 

 

This collaboration underpins Nutreco’s commitment to Feeding the Future. We’re very excited about this partnership and proud to work with our partners in the cultivated protein space.
-Vincent Krudde - Head of alternative proteins at Nutreco

Extracellular brings CDMO-scale R&D capabilities, infrastructure, and process engineering. Will Mulligan, CEO of Extracellular, added: “Extracellular is proud to be working alongside two leaders in the field of cultivated meat, bringing together exceptional cells, media and bioprocessing capabilities.”

“This type of partnership is exactly what the cultivated meat industry needs to accelerate progress toward a viable commercial process,” added Lee. “By working together to solve shared challenges, we significantly de-risk manufacturing not only for Fork & Good, but for producers and vendors across the entire sector.”