Red Leaf Pulp Ltd., Saskatoon, SK

Red Leaf is scaling up a proprietary and cost-competitive process for converting residual wheat straw to market pulp and bio-energy, addressing the growing market need for more sustainable packaging, tissue and paper products.
While certain elements of the Red Leaf process are unique and innovative, fibre has been made from wheat straw for decades around the globe. The Red Leaf process uses off-the-shelf, proven equipment and will produce economic quantities of market pulp from wheat straw -- at scale in North America for the first time.
The key innovations (and patents pending) which unlock fibre production at scale are generated by Red Leaf's solution to a global problem -- How to use the byproducts of pulp production.
Red Leaf has established a pathway to pelletize these byproducts and displace fossil-fuel based energy with a sustainable, low-carbon feedstock.