Inside Canopy Growth: KeyLeaf

KeyLeaf has been around for over 40 years back in the 1970s the government had realized that although the prairies are the you know the breadbasket of Canada producing a lot of agricultural commodities they weren’t doing anything but exporting them so POS now KeyLeaf was created to help get industry value-added industry off the ground. so we have been a service technical service company helping clients from the food industry develop processes for ingredients We’ve done all types of extraction in biomasses it could have been an extraction of an oil extraction with protein or a carbohydrate we have been well known throughout the industry they mentioned to the technical team at canopy about POS Biosciences which was our name at that time to come and have a look at our facility and meet the people. By the end of the day I knew that they were basically in the top place for an extraction partner I saw the equipment that they had and it was the perfect match for what we actually needed for extraction was all set up it was all there and then I met the people. what appealed to us the most out of the canopy team is they were most like us in personality and in the way they operated. we’re a very ‘get’r done’, troubleshoot problem solved you know very dynamic companies.

01:24 - if you had to describe the culture at key leaf or canopy is the one thing is we’re very much a getter done minded folks. everybody chips in bring their ideas and we really value teamwork and there’s never a silly question, or a silly solution to something we all work together and make it happen. we feel that the culture is very similar it’s very, there’s a lot of camaraderie. they’re here to help us and that’s all they want to do really nothing’s changed this is what we do we take a commodity and pull out how high-value products out of any plant material we’ve been doing it for 40 years having somebody there who has the foundation for us to move with to do that that’s a big step for us because that’s what we lacked in the past is having that foundation that stability canopy growth now gives us that stability to take something that we’re good at and producing and improving people’s lives The way turn waste streams into revenue really is amazing they’re they’re finding ways to make an impact on the business that we had never thought of our explored before. with new industry comes new opportunity and you know when we were KeyLeaf, we were one company looking what we’re doing and now being part of canopy we’re looking global.

02:46 - it’s exciting there’s lots of new problems to solve but I think we’re the right group to do it. we have more resources with the engineering teams technical teams marketing business development and so it’s been very we’ve been able to move very quickly and canopy moves very very quickly. without them we wouldn’t be able to build our international extraction facilities. derivative products from our excess hemp seeds we wouldn’t be able to optimize our existing extraction processes anywhere. we enjoy challenges of developing new ingredients and taking new products to market.

03:24 - go to the supermarket or the pharmacy and and look at the products that are on the shelf you can be pretty certain that a good a good number of them have been developed or had some touch point here over the years.