Asia Sustainable Foods Platform and CREMER Joint Venture’s First Contract Manufacturing Facility Brings Alternative Proteins Closer to Asian Consumers

Asia Sustainable Foods (ASF) Platform, a wholly-owned company of Temasek, and CREMER announced today that their joint venture, Cremer Sustainable Foods (CSF), officially opened its first plant-based protein contract manufacturing facility in Singapore. The facility is located within LOGOS Food21, a high specification food production building in the Tuas Food Zone.

CSF is one of the few contract manufacturers for alternative proteins located in Asia. As demand increases for healthier, more sustainable food options from consumers in Asia, CSF is well-positioned to manufacture plant-based alternative protein products in Asia, for Asia.

The 11,000 square-foot facility will be able to manufacture up to 1,300 tonnes of plant-based protein per annum which is equivalent to approximately 4.3 million chicken breasts, and is one of the largest High Moisture Extrusion (HME) contract manufacturing facilities in Singapore.

HME is a nascent technology that allows for the production of plant-based protein products that resemble meat more closely in texture as compared to traditional plant-based manufacturing techniques, such as dry texturised vegetable proteins. The facility will augment Singapore’s local food manufacturing capacity and contribute to the country’s 30 by 30 vision of producing 30% of local nutritional needs locally, by 2030.

The contract manufacturing facility will also enable FoodTechs to accelerate their scale-up in an assetlight manner as they will be able to save on upfront capital, time and resources required to establish their own manufacturing facilities and operations.

CSF will leverage CREMER’s deep industry experience in food manufacturing and operating HME facilities to provide capable and reliable service to plant‐based protein FoodTechs. This is particularly valuable in Asia, where few companies have mature HME knowhow. CSF will also look to grow in scale with its FoodTech customers to the rest of Asia.

CSF will complement ASF’s mission in accelerating the commercialisation of sustainable foods in Asia, by being the go-to solutions provider to FoodTechs at every stage of their growth cycle. As part of its end-to-end offering, ASF is also building the Food Technology Innovation Centre (FTIC) that will feature R&D advisory, test kitchens and shared pilot scale equipment for product development. The pilot scale equipment at FTIC will be of compatible technology with CSF, and FoodTech customers can tap on FTIC to develop new products which can then be manufactured at scale, with CSF.