Origins Global Meats (Pty) Ltd

Austrian Precision Merged with African Innovation

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About Us

Origins Global Meats (Pty) Ltd. is a frontier-thinking meat solutions company that redefines how meat is processed, utilised, and brought to market across Africa and beyond. We are passionate about transforming the overlooked parts of the animal carcass into valuable resources for human food, animal nutrition, and soil regeneration. At the heart of our operations is a relentless drive to redesign carcass utilisation models to achieve maximum profitability and sustainability.

We Integrate AI : Wir integrieren KI.

Eng: Special Feature – Our Complete AI integration merged with low-tech, common sense: The Company That Runs Itself – Building the Future of Integrated Meat Processing Management

De: Besondere Funktion – Unsere vollständige KI-Integration vereint mit Low-Tech und gesundem Menschenverstand: Das Unternehmen, das sich selbst steuert – Aufbau der Zukunft des integrierten Fleischverarbeitungsmanagements

Origins Global Meats (Pty) Ltd. ist ein zukunftsorientiertes Fleischlösungsunternehmen, das die Art und Weise, wie Fleisch verarbeitet, genutzt und auf den Markt gebracht wird, in Afrika und darüber hinaus neu definiert.

Wir sind leidenschaftlich darum bemüht, übersehene Teile des Tierkörpers in wertvolle Ressourcen für menschliche Ernährung, Tiernahrung und Bodenregeneration zu verwandeln.
Im Mittelpunkt unseres Handelns steht der unermüdliche Antrieb, Modelle zur Nutzung des gesamten Tierkörpers neu zu gestalten, um maximale Rentabilität und Nachhaltigkeit zu erreichen.

Information on me is available at “Resume: Eben van Tonder“. Christa Berger joined me, and together we transformed my old consultancy company.

Where and How We Met

I often joked that Christa and I met somewhere between Hallstatt and Turpan, along the ancient Silk Road, in the dusty basin of the Turpan Depression. This region, now part of the Taklamakan Desert in far western China, was the unlikely setting for one of the most fascinating discoveries in my research: one of the sites of the invention of nitrite curing in meat.

Over more than 15 years of dedicated work, I had rarely encountered anyone who shared this specific interest—until one day in 2024, when I received a message on LinkedIn from Christa Berger related to work I had done on salt. That message marked the beginning of the most significant academic and personal collaboration of my life.

As her sister later put it: We didn’t meet on a niche; we met on a niche within a niche.

Our collaboration began with her research in cultural anthropology. In 2025, after countless hours of work and more than 100 jointly authored articles, we realised that her academic focus had powerful commercial potential. Initially, we reached out to the Austrian spice giant Almi, based in Oftering, to contribute to our investigation into the biochemical mechanisms behind Late Bronze Age industrial pork curing in Hallstatt. From there, the idea emerged to expand the collaboration with Almi.

From Academic Cooperation to Present Application

What began as historical reconstruction of Late Bronze Age curing techniques in Hallstatt evolved into modern innovation. With Almi’s partnership and our combined insight, we began solving real-world meat formulation challenges I was facing in Nigeria:

Developing a unique catering bacon
Crafting hams from severely PSE pork, protein-compromised poultry, and DFD beef
Introducing plant-based fats into hybrid meat systems
Replacing mechanically deboned meat (MDM) with cost-equivalent pure meat products
Creating fat-injection systems that transformed roasted, smoked chicken

During my time in Lagos, I experienced firsthand the lack of vision from European meat equipment producers when it came to African conditions and constraints. This gap inspired a new approach—one rooted in functionality, local understanding, and strategic vision. That vision gave rise to ReeQuipAfrica, a company dedicated to equipping African meat processors with fit-for-purpose machinery, refurbished equipment, and design consultation for new factories and processes.

In parallel, our advances in meat science allowed me to reposition Origins Global Meats with Christa as my partner. Originally focused on the African market, we soon found that the strategic and formulation-driven solutions we were developing applied globally, from South America and Western Europe to Russia and beyond.

Christa’s Background

These are lucky charms that Christa makes every new years eve, coloured with beetroot

Christa brings a rare combination of expertise: she is medically trained in radiology and holds advanced qualifications in cultural anthropology. Her deep understanding of anatomy, musculature, and blood flow gave us a new way of looking at protein structure, water binding, and reaction sequences in cured meat. It led to the revival of old concepts like the bind index of various muscle groups, based on their role in blood and marrow production—ideas forgotten in modern textbooks but critical to understanding ancient curing.

Her rural Styrian upbringing brought long-lost traditional techniques into our lab and factory work. Her background in anthropology allowed us to connect seemingly unrelated processes, like the use of lime, duck droppings, and urine, not only in iron smelting, but also in meat processing. These insights transformed our evaluation of the curing systems from Hallstatt and other early industrial sites.

Browsing farmers’ markets in Graz, we observed first-hand the prevalence of L-arginine curing in traditional salt-only curing methods. These observations gave us confidence in designing systems that emulate ancient efficiency without chemical shortcuts.

Today, ReeQuipAfrica supplies factories across Africa with precision-designed equipment and factory layouts, offering realistic, scalable solutions for sausage lines, bacon injection, ham moulding, smokehouse integration, and more. Origins Global Meats leads in the field of formulation, functional ingredient application, and product development strategies rooted in both modern science and ancient wisdom.

Together we form a power team!

Our Specialisations

AI Integration: We combine AI with low-tech common sense!
R&D Excellence
Our research and development work is primarily based in Austria, where we draw upon a vast European knowledge base that spans traditional meat science, advanced food technology, and cutting-edge hybrid product development. By collaborating closely with leading Austrian scientists and institutions, we ensure that our innovations meet the highest international standards.
While our R&D engine is rooted in Europe, our operational footprint is firmly planted in Africa. Every concept, process, and product we develop is designed to meet African realities—tailored to local nutritional needs, raw material availability, climate conditions, and economic structures. This dual focus allows us to deliver world-class innovation with on-the-ground relevance and impact.
5th Quarter Repurposing
The lowest value is derived from fertiliser, but the value increases as one moves from animal feed to human food. We have extensive experience in unlocking value from the 5th quarter for:
1. Human Consumption – Nutritious, affordable meat products
2. Animal Feed – Protein-rich formulations for livestock
3. Fertiliser – Organic soil enrichment solutions
Meat-Plant-Based Food Hybrids
Innovative product development combining meat with plant-based ingredients to create:
- Sausages
- Burger patties
- Minced and extended minced meat
Carcass Utilisation Redesign
Strategic approaches to maximise the commercial potential of every animal, turning abattoirs and cutting plants into profit centres.
Meat Plant Design & Optimisation
From blueprint to daily operations: we build and refine processing environments for peak efficiency and maximum yield.
Integrated Management Models
Tailored ERP systems, staffing structures, and workflow designs that support high-performance meat plants.
Nutrition-Driven Product Design
We identify regional nutritional deficiencies and develop innovative meat-based or hybrid products to address them directly.

Our Experience

R&D Excellence
Deep R&D capabilities through long-term collaboration with Austrian technology partners.
Processing Line Set-Up
Complete line development, from equipment selection to operational handover.
Factory Design & Equipment Selection
Engineered for African conditions. Built to last.
Turnkey Solutions
From factory floors to management offices:
- Site Layout
- Staff hiring and training
- SOP development
- Commissioning
ERP Design & Implementation
Custom-designed systems to digitise and streamline every operational layer.
Mentorship & Ongoing Support
We don’t walk away after commissioning. Our international network provides continual mentorship and troubleshooting support for management teams.

Track Record

15+ Years of factory management and commercial meat processing experience in South Africa
7+ Years on the ground in Nigeria, developing hybrid products, overcoming infrastructural constraints, and adapting global meat science to local realities.

Our Entrepreneurial Spirit

We are not just consultants but doers, builders, and entrepreneurs. We live to identify and exploit economic opportunities by merging world-class meat science with local insights and agility. Our strength lies in seeing potential where others see waste and turning that potential into profit.