US food-tech startup Aqua Cultured Foods has begun buildout of a new facility that will enable the company to begin scaling production of its whole-cut plant-based seafood.
The new facility, which is located in Chicago's West Loop area, is already food-grade and needs minimal upgrades to scale production of Aqua's fermentation-created protein. Aqua’s methods are space-efficient, akin to vertical farming, and use standard equipment, allowing for this rapid and…