Ever After Foods and Bühler announce cultivated meat partnership

The Israeli firm is joining forces with the Swiss plant equipment manufacturer to build new artificial meat production technology.

Based just shy of 100 km north of Tel Aviv in Haifa, Ever After uses “3D cell expansion” and “edible packed-bed” tech to produce cultivated meat products and will now work with Bühler to create a system that can work at a scale 10 times lower than is currently commercially viable. Ever After says that by using its tech, clients can reduce production costs by “over 90%.”

“We are working to develop scalable, commercially viable production systems that drastically reduce costs while ensuring high-quality output,” Ever After Foods CEO Eyal Rosenthal tells GlobalPETS.

“This collaboration strengthens our ability to meet the growing demand for sustainable protein and accelerates our path to commercialization.”

The Cultured Hub

The partnership follows Bühler’s launch of The Cultured Hub, a business development program that helps startups develop cultivated meat production strategies. Now, Bühler is working directly with Ever After to access the Israeli firm’s technology.

“We see Ever After Food holding promising technology that could drastically reduce the unit cost of producing cultured food in the future,” Bühler’s Chief Technology Officer, Ian Roberts, tells GlobalPETS in a statement.

Bühler and Ever After are not specifically targeting the pet industry, but Roberts notes that the partnership would have applications for the sector.

Cultivated meat in pet food

For years, cultivated meat has been viewed as an up-and-coming sector for both human and animal foods.

The tech required aims to produce meat cheaply and without the environmental impact of industrial farming. Over the past decade, this has drawn many investors to the sector, meaning Ever After and Bühler have significant competition.

Lab-grown meat for pet food took a major step forward in 2024 when regulators in the UK approved Meatly’s lab-meat dog treats for commercial sale.

The company tested the product on store shelves in February 2025. In the US, prototyping of a “new class” of cultivated pet food from Friends & Family Pet Food and Novel Farms is slated to start this year.