CHARLOTTE — A lab-grown meat company has chosen Wilson for its first U.S. manufacturing facility.
Future Meat Technologies, which does business as Believer Meats, will invest $123 million into a new 200,000-square-foot facility at Wilson Corporate Park. That will create up to 100 jobs, the company announced Wednesday.
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Believer Meats was founded in 2018 by Yaakov Nahmias, and has been working on its product at a plant in Rehovot, Israel, since then. Now, the company is preparing to scale up production and launch its product in the U.S.
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