Paris, France – July 2nd, 2026 – PARIMA, a global leader in protein innovation, has demonstrated production of cultivated duck at a multi-tonne scale, in a single 22,000-liter production run.

PARIMA achieved this in collaboration with Vow using their 22,000-liter production line in Sydney, the largest cultivated meat manufacturing line built to date.

For the sector, the production run is further proof that cultivated meat can be made at an industrial scale and at a viable cost.

Economically viable cultivated meat, demonstrated

PARIMA reached this milestone at a 99% lower production cost than earlier runs, driven by successive gains in cell-culture yield and the volume efficiencies of operating at scale.

"Economic viability for cultivated meat is no longer an extrapolation from pilot runs. It’s here," said Nicolas Morin-Forest, co-founder and CEO of PARIMA. "Our team spent more than seven years building the most robust biology and process to achieve large-scale production. Together with Vow, we are proving that cultivated protein is moving toward industrial maturity."

PARIMA's proven technology platform is built to remove the cost and complexity that held the first wave of cultivated meat companies back. Early approaches utilized expensive growth media, cells that had to be grown on scaffolds and matured into tissue, and processes that were hard to scale. PARIMA's next-generation platform takes a different route. Its non-GMO cells grow as an undifferentiated biomass in suspension, in a similar manner to biomass fermentation, without scaffolds, microcarriers, growth factors, or a differentiation step.

"We have cleared the technical hurdles that stalled cultivated meat production and drew skepticism over the past few years, specifically around process efficiencies, biological performance, and growth media cost," said Dr. Victor Sayous, co-founder and CTO of PARIMA. "The process ran at 22,000 liters on the first attempt, with no performance loss compared to smaller scales. Combined with commercial-scale infrastructure like Vow's, our breakthroughs open a new chapter for the sector."

"Our platform has proven that cultivated cell production at 22,000 liters works at unit economics the industry can build on. What this collaboration adds is the demonstration that the economics Vow have already achieved work for partners too. PARIMA has been a strong partner in proving that, delivering results on the first attempt, and we're excited about what comes next," said George Peppou, founder and Executive Director of Vow.

A stronger value chain, built on collaboration

The PARIMA and Vow collaboration is indicative of where the sector is heading, with tighter collaboration enabling a reduction in capital intensity due to production runs on shared infrastructure rather than in individual production facilities.

That shift is the subject of the July 2026 Viewpoint by management consulting firm Arthur D. Little, which traced the same sector-level developments: a more specialized value chain forming around producers, similar to the transition in fermentation and other biomanufacturing as those industries matured.

“A specialized value chain is forming around cultivated meat producers, of the kind every industrializing bioprocess eventually develops," said Clément Santander, Partner at Arthur D. Little. "Growth media is becoming a product bought from dedicated suppliers, bioproduction is being offered as a service through tolling and contract facilities, and existing food infrastructure is being reused downstream. The model is shifting from owning every asset to building on an ecosystem of specialized partners, which is how mature biomanufacturing industrialized previously."

“Sub-€10/kg production cost is closer than most observers expected”

"On the technology, the questions that defined the sector's early years have largely been answered," Santander added. "Biological performance now sits within the range of more mature processes such as fermentation, and production has been demonstrated at an industrial scale. From here, further cost reduction comes mostly from volume and economies of scale, with biology playing a smaller part. Sub-€10/kg is closer than most observers expected, and the remaining constraints have moved to regulatory clearance and the opening of markets."

This milestone is the latest in a strong sequence for PARIMA. In April 2026, the company became the first in the world to be approved for cultivated food across two species, following the clearance of its cultivated chicken by the Singapore Food Agency in October 2025 and its cultivated duck six months later. In May 2026, its regulatory progress continued as it completed the risk assessment conducted by Food Standards Australia New Zealand for its submission filed in 2025.

About PARIMA

PARIMA is a global leader in food and protein innovation. The company develops high-quality cultivated foods directly from animal cells to meet rising global demand for nutritious protein with greater efficiency and lower resource use. PARIMA is the first company in the world to be approved for two species of cultivated food, with cultivated chicken and duck cleared by the Singapore Food Agency. Its culinary brand, Gourmey, focuses on premium cultivated foods co-developed with Michelin-starred chefs worldwide.

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About Vow

Vow Group Pty Ltd ("Vow") operates the largest commercial cultivated meat production facility in the world, located in Sydney, Australia. The facility houses multiple stirred-tank bioreactors at production scale, including a 22,000-litre commercial line, and is qualified to produce food-grade cultivated products at industrial scale. Vow has held regulatory approval for its cultivated food products in Singapore since 2024 and in Australia since 2025. Vow has produced and sold cultivated food products commercially since 2024.

About Arthur D. Little

Arthur D. Little (“ADL”) is the world’s first management consulting firm, founded in 1886. Operating through an open-consulting network of 50-plus offices in nearly 40 countries, ADL combines deep sector expertise with cutting-edge analytical tools and hands-on implementation support. Their multidisciplinary teams partner with corporations, scale-ups, and public institutions worldwide to accelerate performance, drive innovation through convergence and digital, and build resilient, future-ready operating models.