Japan's Next Meats to operate plant-based meat facility in Singapore

Food-tech company Next Meats will establish Singapore’s first plant-based yakiniku meat production facility in the last quarter that would allow it to process and market plant-based meats in the city-state.

Hideyuki Sasaki, CEO of Next Meats, said that after successfully establishing a presence in Japan with their alternative yakiniku meats, they are now pushing ahead with their global.

Sasaki noted that Singapore's robust infrastructure and innovation culture makes it an ideal stronghold for them.

Global Good Plant Meat, the distributors for Next Meats’ products, and Tiong Lian Food are the stakeholders in the venture.

Ingredients will be imported from Japan.

There are plans to export to exports the products to neighboring countries Malaysia and Indonesia.

Just last month, Next Meats began the construction of a new eco-friendly, alternative protein production facility in Japan.