Remilk, a food-tech startup that develops cultured milk and dairy, announced that it intends to build the “world’s largest” facility for the production of cow-free milk in Denmark.
According to the company, the 750,000-square-foot (69,677-square-meter) facility will be built within an eco-industrial park in the city of Kalundborg. This new plant in Denmark will replace *50,000* cows per year and is part of the ground-breaking Kalundborg Symbiosis project, which is the world’s first industrial symbiosis with a circular approach to production, converting waste stream in one company into a resource in another.
Remilk, which was founded in 2019, produces milk proteins through a yeast-based fermentation process that makes them “chemically identical” to those found in cow-produced milk and dairy products.
Using precision fermentation, Remilk produces dairy proteins that are identical to those found in animal products. Cows are not required in any way, and the resources required to develop dairy products are minimal in comparison to those required to rear farm animals. The company was founded on the principle of completely disrupting an archaic industry that has a “devastating impact” on the planet. Following its Series B funding, the company was valued at $325 million, with sales projected to reach $600 million by 2026.
