Canadian government invests $1.1M in Mazza Innovation

The Canadian Government has announced a Cdn $1.1 million investment in Mazza Innovation to expand their plant extract production facility in Delta, British Columbia.

The investment is enabling Mazza to install drying technology and expand its laboratory. This expansion will help Mazza to meet global demand for phytonutrients, which give plants their color and are used as an ingredient for functional foods, dietary supplements, and cosmetics and beauty products. Mazza also provides custom services and analyses for companies and partners with unique proprietary botanical ingredient challenges and opportunities.

This funding builds on a previous Cdn $300,000 federal investment the company received to develop an advanced new method of extracting phytonutrients and bioactives from plants using the most natural solvent possible: water.

Mazza’s PhytoClean fully natural extraction process uses pressurized water as a natural solvent to extract clean phytonutrients and bioactive ingredients from plants, according to the company. It can also apply this process and its in-house technical expertise to identify and analyze any botanical biomass for previously undiscovered high-value nutrients. Mazza also won innovation awards for its ingredients at the 2015 Engredea tradeshow in Anaheim, California.