Cargill, one of the world's largest food and agriculture companies, has formally opened a canola processing plant in Clavet, Sask., a village about 30 kilometres southeast of Saskatoon.
According to the company, the plant will have the capacity to refine up to one billion pounds (about 453,000 metric tonnes) of canola annually, making it Cargill's largetst refinery in North America.
Scott Portnoy, a vice-president with Cargill, added the facility will also be the largest integrated crush and refining facility in the world.
Planning for the refinery began in 2013. In February of this year the first batch of oil was processed, leading up to the grand opening event Thursday.
"Through the past few months we've been testing, we've been optimising and now we're really running," Portnoy said. "Now it's just a matter of more volume through the facility, more customers through the facility and that kind of thing."
Source : CBC