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Aspire Food Group’s Vice President of Research and Innovation, Dr. Jenn MacLean, participated in a panel with the Vector Institute on December 2nd, 2021. Leading CEOs and professionals from some of Ontario’s fast-growing companies discussed Artificial Intelligence’s role in the growth and innovation strategies of their business enterprises.

Aspire Food Group aims to start production at a CAD $90m 100,000sqft automated cricket processing facility in London, ON which will produce 10,000 tons of crickets/year in phase one alone.

Dematic has partnered with Aspire Food Group for the construction of a new facility expected to revolutionise food-grade insect protein production. The project, expected for completion early next year, will develop the world’s first fully automated food-grade insect protein manufacturing site with Dematic Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) technology.

NOVA takes a tasty look at insect foods that could benefit our health and our warming planet.