Reading Time: 2 minutes A company that says it has licensed “a groundbreaking technological breakthrough in plant proteins” has been given $1 million in government funding towards a $20-million pea-processing pilot facility in Lethbridge. And PIP International said it plans to start construction on a $150-million processing facility towards the end of the year. In a release, the company […] Read more
Fourth pulse-processing company to set up shop in Alberta
PIP International says it has a superior way to process yellow peas that will give it a market advantage
Bowden pulse-processing plant aims to be on the cutting edge
Among its goals is to get rid of the aftertaste of pulses and find ways to up protein levels
Reading Time: 2 minutes A consortium of companies behind the province’s first major pulse fractionation plant are vowing to “take plant-based protein extraction to the next level” at the new facility being built in Bowden. And part of that is making pulse ingredients that don’t taste like pulses. “Our emphasis is on processing functionality,” said Kevin McGeough, CEO of […] Read more
Calgary protein ingredient maker already set to expand
Lovingly Made Ingredients expansion means more sales for Alberta farmers growing peas and other crops
Reading Time: 4 minutes The plant-protein boom is starting to pay dividends for Alberta growers. Less than a year after opening its doors, the province’s biggest plant-protein processor is already eyeing an expansion of its Calgary facility. “We have a piece of technology in Europe that we’re looking to bring to Alberta this year, and that would give us […] Read more
Opportunity awaits: Will Alberta seize the day in pulse processing?
The province’s pulse sector saw setbacks and successes in 2021, but what happens next will be key
Reading Time: 6 minutes Pulse processing on the Prairies has come a long way, but there’s still a long way to go — especially here in Alberta. “If you’d asked me 10 years ago, I would have said, ‘Ten years from now, we shouldn’t be shipping yellow peas away.’ And here we are, still fractionating far too large a […] Read more
Bowden pulse-processing plant breaks ground
The plant — the first of its kind in Alberta — is expected to be completed by 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s been a long time coming, but Alberta’s first wet fractionation plant is finally moving forward. On Oct. 7, More Than Protein Ingredients broke ground on its new site near Bowden, which will be home to a $100-million plant-based wet fractionation facility once construction is completed in 2023. “I think this was inevitable,” said pulse […] Read more
GFI takes over Bowden pulse-processing plant
Reading Time: < 1 minute Toronto company Global Food and Ingredients says it has completed its acquisition of the former W.A. Grains pet food ingredients production facility in Bowden. The plant blends milled lentils, chickpeas, peas and pinto beans to “produce specific nutritional profiles for pet food manufacturers.” GFI specializes in plant-based food and ingredients in four categories: pea protein, […] Read more
It’s been anything but business as usual for pulse sector this year
It’s not just the drought hitting production — global demand is up, shipping disrupted and processing plants coming online
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s definitely unusual times for the Prairie pulse sector, and save for a lucky few, it’s a year most will be glad to see the back of. “It’s rare to see such a large cross-section of the industry impacted by drought, but that is very much the case here,” said Pulse Canada president Greg Cherewyk. […] Read more
Study finds major gap in Alberta’s valued-added strategy
A supporting cast of contract processors key to developing plant protein-processing sector
Reading Time: 3 minutes A lack of fractionation plants isn’t the only thing holding back development of a plant protein-processing sector in Alberta. Like fractionation, the province is falling behind on toll processors, companies that provide specialty processing and manufacturing for other companies. “We need all that toll processing in Alberta in order to get the secondary and tertiary […] Read more
The plant protein ship hasn’t sailed — but time is running out
Manitoba and Saskatchewan are part of the pulse-processing boom — but in Alberta, nothing
Reading Time: 7 minutes For nearly five years, Chris Chivilo has been ready to break ground on a new pulse-fractioning facility near Bowden. And every year, his plans have been pushed to next year. First, the bottom fell out of the pulse market. Then the capital just wasn’t there. Then the pandemic. But you only get so many ‘next […] Read more
Pitch pays off for startup organic fertilizer maker
Fertilizer made from pea and lentil hulls wins supercluster funding and praise from environment minister
Reading Time: 2 minutes Apitch at an ag innovation forum a year ago has paid dividends for a Vancouver company that wants to make fertilizer out of waste material from pulse processing. Lucent Plant BioSciences and its partners — including pulse trader and processor AGT Foods — is receiving $1.3 million from the protein supercluster to help develop a […] Read more
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