Innotech Alberta is a subsidiary of Alberta Innovates. The company first and foremost focuses on facilitating the conversion of applied research to environmental benefits for Alberta. Besides the environmental benefits, there will also be economical and social benefits. Through this company, you can access a solid research team that has all the technical expertise. Add their unique facilities to the equation and you are able to accelerate the development of technology that will serve both the public and the private sector.
By working with the main company, the Alberta Innovates, Innotech Alberta is able to connect research and commercial outcomes and link them in accordance with strategic research and innovation going by the rules that have been set by the Government of Alberta.
They are able to achieve all this with their fully-functional operating labs that work on applied research and development, that enable them to deliver laboratory services in multiple locations.
The History of Innotech Alberta
Transforming agriculture, environment, energy and production sectors is part of the history of InnoTech Alberta. They have been doing this over the years while becoming one of the premier applied research organizations in Canada. This company works with clients from all over the world in order to develop innovations and new solutions to the same old complex challenges their clients are facing.
InnoTech Alberta has cross-sector teams that offer various scientific, technological, and engineering research backed up with their high testing capabilities all enabled by their multi-functional facilities to support the scale-up.
The way the company works
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The well-organized work enables the team to work with more than 600 clients and partners early. They work in arrangements that have been customized to their partners’ needs including joint-industry partnerships, their fee-for-service contracts, as well as research consortia.
The services offered, based on expertise
The services InnoTech Alberta has to offer and based on their advanced facilities and their expertise gained through experience. They are able to deliver high-quality results whether working on products or services that will, in turn, help them solve challenges that their clients were facing. Their advanced facilities enable them to offer you a wide range of scientific, engineering and technological research together with excellent testing capabilities. This is all possible due to the one million square feet of research and lab space, and if your project requires it, they also offer 00 acres of farmland for research and testing. Whatever you might need, from greenhouses to bench scale to pilots, this company has it.
Aboriginal Environmental Services Network (AESN)
The people at InnoTech Alberta have a unique approach to skill development and communication that enables them to promote and share resources alongside Indigenous participation in the environmental industry.
The Monitoring of Biodiversity
With their Biodiversity Monitoring service, InnoTech Alberta is able to track changes in the wildlife of Alberta. This, in turn, enables them to provide ongoing credible information on Alberta’s living resources based on science.
Crop Research
Their services in crop research, InnoTech Alberta enables their partners to develop many crop varieties that can endure biotic stress and diseases thus give a larger crop yield each season.
Management of the Ecosystems
By managing the ecosystems, InnoTech Alberta is able to develop and apply innovations that support cost-effective management.
These are many other services are offered by the company to their clients each year.
InnoTech Alberta Experts
At InnoTech Alberta, you have over 300 highly-educated scientists and technical staff. They diverge from scientific to engineering expertise and work in the public and private sectors with clients from the manufacturing, energy, agricultural and many other sectors. The reason why Cannabis Pages chose to feature them in our list as a company worth knowing is that they are able to test through simulation and experiments that will give you the results and outcomes that you need from your projects.
The Legalization of Recreational Marijuana
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With the legalization of recreational marijuana in Canada, InnoTech Alberta is now able to work more freely on their projects and boost the gained knowledge through experiment. In fact, for nearly 20 years now, InnoTech Alberta has been into the R&D of cannabis working with industrial hemp (that contains 0.3% tetrahydrocannabinol or THC) and with marijuana (that contains high-THC levels). The team has supported the development of high-quality hemp all over Canada by testing new varieties and producing many products from the fiber of the hemp as well as the seeds.
As far as their marijuana production goes, InnoTech Alberta for 13 years now has been the exclusive provider of bioanalytical testing. However, with the legalization, more and more opportunities are opening up.
The InnoTech Alberta’s laboratories can successfully run tests on medical cannabis. This includes industrial hemp and marijuana. The laboratory is able to test for molds, for the toxic compounds produced by a mold called mycotoxins, they also provide tests for heavy metals and pesticides. These services are provided to small and medium-sized producers who do not own labs to test these things.
The reason why mold testing is so important is that marijuana is grown in high humidity and this makes it susceptible to mold. If the producer doesn’t notice it when they dry the batch the mycotoxins and the mold remain together with the dried flowers and it can result is deadly outcomes for those that will buy from the producer. Growers should be able to provide a proof of their plant’s purity, so they can do this through InnoTech Alberta’s laboratories.
InnoTech Alberta is capable of cannabinoid profiling as well. There is a high market interest in this because cannabinoids are the active compounds found in weed that give us all the benefits of this plant. THC and CBD are one of these. Their Bioanalytical Laboratory is able to identify the ten most important cannabinoids in marijuana and in industrial hemp. This is a very useful information for growers. This is especially true because of the healing properties CBD has, thus growers wanting to increase its contents in their crops.
The company’s technology can also very accurately categorize and identify hundreds of strains of marijuana. This will be of major help when it comes to the prevention of illegally-grown marijuana and its appearance in retail stores.
