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Our Story

Tomorrow's Agriculture Starts Today...

It started with a group of young entrepreneurs looking for new, sustainable opportunities in Alberta...

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2023

  • Commissioned 1st Processing line (Fall 2023)

  • Officially started processing hemp and fulfilling purchase orders.

  • Final steps for monetizing soil carbon credit opportunities.

  • 28 full-time employees.

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2022

  • Completed construction of 40,000 sq.ft. Bruderheim Processing Facility

  • Installed 2 processing lines (Fall 2022)

  • Partnered with Results Driven Agriculture Research (RDAR) and the Institute of Bast Crops in Ukraine to add Ukrainian single-purpose fiber varieties to Canada's current List of Approved Cultivars (LOAC) varieties.

  • Completed the largest-ever hemp fiber harvest in North America (6,000 acres).

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2021

  • Rasied an additional $5.5M in equity.

  • Contracted and harvested 5,000 acres of hemp fiber.

  • Patented degumming technology and harvest equipment. 

  • Procured Decortication Line 1.

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2020

  • Raised an addition $4M in equiity.

  • Secured $8M in debt financing from Agriculture Financial Services Corportation (AFSC) and Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC).

  • Contracted 40 local Alberta farmers to grow 3,000 acres of hemp.

  • Successfully harvested 3,000 acres of hemp.

  • Processed CRHC grown hemp through multiple decortication systems. 

  • Opened Lamont R&D Facility to trial multiple processing systems at commercial scale.

  • Secured first international off-take agreements.

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2019

  • Raised $4M from local Alberta investors.

  • Started construction of Bruderheim Processing Facility.

  • Contracted local Alberta farmers to grow 1,500 acres of hemp.

  • Started decorticating hemp (1 tonne/hour).

  • Developed 1st generation custom harvesters.

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2018

  • Incorporated

  • Purchased 75 acres of agri-industrial land in Bruderheim, Alberta, Canada.

  • Started soil carbon field science and credit protocol development.

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2016 - 2017

  • Visited and researched industrial hemp markets, feedstock sources, and processing technologies in China, Ukraine, Europe, the U.S., and Australia.

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Canadian Rockies Hemp Corp. (CRHC) is an agribusiness operating in Bruderheim, Alberta, Canada (40 minutes NE of Edmonton).

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CRHC processes hemp fiber at scale, with the goal of building a sustainable and profitable future for generations to come.

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CRHC provided sustainable, consistent commercial supply of processed hemp biomaterials to manufacturing facilities in Canada, the United States, and around the world.

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Processed hemp is quickly becoming a high-demand input for industries such as textiles, pulp and paper, automotive, animal bedding, building and insulation, composites, and more. 

About CRHC

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