Expansion of SiliCycle: a $15 million investment for its plant extension and the diversification of its activities
SiliCycle is investing $ 15 million to expand its facilities, adding 21,000 square feet to the existing plant.
This project includes, among other things, the addition of high-standard equipment as well as a large-scale production area (CMO) that complies with good manufacturing practices (GMP), intended to diversify the company’s current activities.
Not only will this expansion allow SiliCycle to increase the production capacity of currently marketed products (in more than 85 countries at this time), but will also enable the development and production of plant, forest, marine biomass extracts via a new Extraction-Purification technologic platform.
These ingredients can also be purified to pharmaceutical grade and scale, pharmaceutical companies being SiliCycle’s main customers.
The expansion project includes, among other things, the addition of numerous specialized equipment and large-scale production area (CMO) that complies with good manufacturing practices (GMP).
Thus, ingredients such as CBD / THC molecules, polyphenols, omega-3, and purified extracts and ingredients addressing the pharmaceutical, food, nutraceutical, natural health products industries, animal nutrition, and cosmetics will be marketed.
SiliCycle plans to double its turnover in 2020, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
In the short term, this important investment will allow the creation of about 50 highly specialized positions (PhDs in chemistry, engineers, laboratory technicians…).
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June 2018 – First preparation works
Our range of products and services is used by analytical laboratories, companies focused on the development and industrial scale-up of manufacturing processes, or companies that manufacture finished products.
Our services offering includes, among others:
- the aqueous or organic extraction of molecules from various biomasses
- custom purification from laboratory to industrial scale
- the development of analytical methods to reach the desired levels of purity
- the synthesis of molecules of interest
- the production of active ingredients such as omega-3, polyphenols and CBD / THC molecules
SiliCycle’s mission is to develop and market innovative products and services of great value to customers and to make a technical contribution to their work.
