Progressive Planet Solutions Inc. (PLAN), Kamloops, B.C., which calls itself a “disruptive innovator for cement and agricultural tech,” announced on July 5 an expansion into custom-blended regenerative fertilizers and soil amendments using new specialty-blending equipment.
The company said it has performed seasonal, single-ingredient toll-processing of regenerative fertilizer powders since August 2020 at its pilot plant, which has now been fully disassembled with all industrial-sized equipment moved to Kamloops.
Utilizing blending equipment that came fully paid for with the February acquisition of Absorbent Products Ltd., a manufacturer of mineral-based products derived from diatomaceous earth, zeolite, and bentonite, PLAN said it can now uniformly mix up to 20 mt/h multi-ingredient custom fertilizer powders to exact customer specifications.
PLAN announced that this week it began the first commercial production of Hydr8™ in partnership with Eco Health Industries Ltd., Maple Ridge, B.C., which developed the product. Hydr8 is a soil amendment that is a blend of biochar, zeolite, and humates, and the company said its addition to native soils increases the viability of transplants and improves plant resistance to drought and stress.
PLAN said the next phase of product offerings will come from the ability to convert fertilizer powders into pellets to enable application of specialty fertilizer pellets using traditional broadcast fertilizer spreaders.
To enter the pelleted fertilizer market, PLAN ordered a 16-foot-wide disc pelletizer in May 2022 and expects delivery in August 2022, with plans to begin producing both single-ingredient and custom-blend regenerative fertilizer pellets in fall of 2022.