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Odd Grydeland
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A canola processing facility north of Saskatoon has started commercial delivery of its oil and meal products, reports the Saskatoonhomepage. It has taken one month for BioExx to move from daytime to 24 hour production.  Full capacity won't be reached for another 30 days, but production volumes are high enough that truckload quantities will leave the plant on a near daily basis. Compare to other canola crushing plants, it is a relatively small operation. 

BioExx will processs about 40,000 tonnes of non-genetically modified canola per year. It has a patented process which uses lower temperatures to extract higher quality meal, oils and protein from the canola seed.  The protein concentrates will go to the aquaculture and specialty animal feed markets. According to the company's web site, 
"BioExx owns patented technology which allows for much lower temperatures to be used for the extraction of active ingredients and oils from biomass. This makes BioExx particularly well suited to process oilseed crops in a manner that allows for the production of much higher value additives to the food chain, in the form of higher yields of high value proteins which tend to be temperature sensitive. While forming just a small, but very valuable part of the solution to prominent global agricultural problems, BioExx has a mandate to rapidly grow the company through the construction and operation of extraction facilities around the world and because of its much lower energy requirements, to do so in a very environmentally responsible manner".
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