NEW TECH FOODS

Pluri has secured new international collaboration agreements across its cell-based food and agriculture subsidiaries, extending its commercial footprint in Asia, Europe and the US.

The company said the deals support development programmes at Ever After Foods, Kokomodo and Coffeesai – ventures focused respectively on cultivated meat, cellular cacao and cell-based coffee production.

Ever After Foods has begun multiple scale-up and pre-commercial trials with food companies and cultivated-meat players in Asia and the US. The programmes aim to validate production at larger scales and advance customer-specific use cases, with pilot results expected among the next milestones.

Kokomodo has signed two new strategic agreements: one with a European confectionery-focused food innovation firm, and another with a US multinational operating in food and agriculture. The collaborations will support R&D and manufacturing expansion, as well as potential co-development projects in Europe and North America.

Coffeesai has entered a strategic partnership with a major food and beverage group headquartered in East Asia. The agreement focuses on advancing controlled, indoor cell-based coffee cultivation intended to reduce the environmental impact of traditional coffee farming and shorten supply chains.

Pluri CEO and president Yaky Yanay said the partnerships indicate growing confidence in the company’s 3D cell-expansion platform, noting that each agreement includes a collaborator-funded proof-of-concept phase.

“These collaborations represent a major leap forward in our foodtech and agtech roadmap,” Yanay said. “We believe that each collaboration not only validates the market readiness and multifaceted potential of our scalable 3D cell expansion technologies but also brings the power of world-class collaborators into our ecosystem."

"Together, we aim to reshape the way the world produces and consumes essential food products. We believe that the fact that every agreement includes a collaborator-funded proof-of-concept is a clear vote of confidence in our technology and reinforces our ability to deliver sustainable, long-term value for our shareholders.”

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