The Government of Saskatchewan is welcoming the announcement by Ceres Global Ag of its plans to build a new US $350 million integrated canola crush facility at Northgate. "Adding value to . . .
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Ceres Global Ag Corp. plans to build a $350-million plant near the U.S. border.
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Posted: May 26, 2021 2:28 PM CT | Last Updated: May 26
Growing demand for canola products was credited for the decision to build a processing plant in Northgate, Sask.(Riley Laychuk/CBC) comments
Saskatchewan is getting another canola crush plant, the third such plant announced for the province this spring.
This time, Ceres Global Ag Corp. has announced it will build a $350-million facility in Northgate, about 275 kilometres south of Regina, near the U.S. border.
According to a Ceres news release, the facility will have the capacity to process 1.1 million tonnes of canola each year and create about 50 jobs. The plant will also have refining capacity for more than 500,000 tonnes of canola oil annually.
The Government of Saskatchewan is welcoming the announcement by Ceres Global Ag of its plans to build a new US $350 million integrated canola crush facility at Northgate. "Adding value to . . .
Agribusiness, Ceres Global, today announced to build a US$350m integrated canola processing facility in Saskatchewan, Canada, to help meet the current and growing global demand for canola products.
The facility will have capacity to process 1.1 million metric tons of canola and refine over 500K metric tons of canola oil annually.
Robert Day, CEO, Ceres, said the crushing facility would help meet the
“unprecedented demand for oilseed crush” currently in North America.
With its direct connection to the BNSF freight railroad, Ceres can offer Saskatchewan growers access to a variety of markets in the US, he said:
“While there are multiple drivers contributing to this demand, the most important is the movement towards green energy and the need for vegetable oil as feedstock for the production of renewable diesel. We have been analyzing canola crush at Northgate for several years as its location along the Canada-US border is ideally located to or