Bill Grueul, CEO of Protein Industries Canada, addresses reporters January 10 as Jim Carr, Prime Minister Trudeau’s special representative for the prairies, and Merit Functional Foods co-CEO Ryan Bracken look on.

Supercluster pumps $9.5 million into Winnipeg plant

Merit Functional Foods to open world’s first canola protein-processing facility late this year

A Merit Functional Foods canola and pea protein-processing facility near Winnipeg is slated to be up and running by the end of the year with the help of financial investment from Protein Industries Canada, the company announced at a news conference January 10. “Our plan is to build processing closer to production, adding value to

Corteva Agriscience, which spun off from the merged Dow and DuPont in 2019, got its canola seed breeding lab and research station in Saskatoon from the Dow AgroSciences end of the merger. (Video screengrab from Corteva.ca)

Supercluster backing canola protein production

The federally-backed research and development “supercluster” set up to boost Canada’s protein industries is funding work to wring more and better proteins out of canola seed. In Saskatoon on Wednesday, federal Industry Minister Navdeep Bains announced the Protein Industries Canada (PIC) supercluster has approved a new $27.6 million project to breed high-protein canola hybrids for