Mission Barns, a San Francisco-based company that grows cultivated pork fat, has unveiled a new bioreactor system designed specifically for high-volume, low-value food production. The company plans to launch finished products at select outlets next year, pending regulatory approval.

The new bioreactor system is engineered to work with naturally adherent cells, allowing both cell proliferation and tissue formation in the same production vessel. It features efficient mass transfer, dense cell packing, high volumetric productivity, and a streamlined harvesting process while also being scalable for industrial manufacturing.

Mission Barns claims its bioreactor can dramatically improve the efficiency of the production process, potentially reaching price parity with conventional pork. The company aims to be a B2B supplier of fat to the plant-based and cultivated meat industry, offering a technology that could be licensed to large players with existing infrastructure.