Expansion of SiliCycle: a $ 15 million investment

QUEBEC, Quebec - June 12, 2018 - PRLog -- 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 25^th 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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