Food and beverage firm Nestle Malaysia officially opened a new Plant-Based Meal Solutions plant in the Shah Alam Industrial Complex in Selangor, Malaysia, the company announced this week. The RM150 million (about $36 million) facility is the company’s first of its kind in the ASEAN region.
Featuring a capacity of 8,000 tn/yr, the 600-sq-m plant includes new food processing machinery and automated packaging lines. Nestle produces the Harvest Gourmet brand of plant-based at the Selangor plant for the out-of-home-market and the site will soon start to produce a commercial range of offerings for retail and eCommerce sale.
Here are some other developments in the food and beverage industry that captured headlines over the last week:
The plant-based meat alternative opened its first end-to-end manufacturing plant outside the US outside of Shanghai.
Plant-based protein firm Beyond Meat announced this week that its first end-to-end manufacturing plant for outside the United States has officially opened in the Jiaxing Economic & Technological Zone (JXEDZ) near Shanghai.
The facility enables the plant-based meat alternatives maker to expand the scale and boost the speed of production and distribution of its products in the region. Plant-based beef, pork, and poultry products made at the new facility will be sold in the Chinese market.
“The opening of our dedicated plant-based meat facility in China marks a significant milestone in Beyond Meat’s ability to effectively compete in one of the world’s largest meat markets,” Ethan Brown, the firm’s CEO and founder, said in a release. “We are committed to investing in China as a region for long-term growth, and we believe this new manufacturing facilit