January 20, 2020
The Carnation Company has improved the purification process of Prairie Carnation in a significant way. Seed fractionation could be significantly improved. Our research efforts resulted in purifying one single saponin which shows up in chromatograms as one single peak. This is a big success in comparison to the only other saponin based vaccine adjuvants, QS-21 which consists of a mixture of compounds showing in analysis. Based on these new results by John Balsevich, we have been able to move close to developing a vaccine adjuvant with high immune response and low allergen city or toxicity potential.
March 29, 2019
Prairie Carnations starting field trials in Germany with Phytowelt GreenTechnologies GmbH. Several different varieties of Prairie Carnation will be examined.
August 24, 2016
Dr. Geeta Patel came from India to join Carnation BioProducts. Geeta brings with her 25 years of work experience in the agriculture and bioproducts industry, has introduced soil inoculants, fertilizer and plant protection products to market, turned around the business of her previous agriculture division where she was Executive Vice President. Geeta said, “I am very happy to be in Canada and have lot of opportunities to grow the business of Carnation BioProducts”. We are happy to welcome Geeta on this exiting activity in the Canadian Prairies!
May 20, 2016
The company developed a new method of purifying carnation starch. The principle consists of a wet process without heating the starch. The result is native white starch without any hull particles. The method also addresses the challenge of separating the starch from the lignin containing hulls. The hull fraction can be collected for gaining a special quality of lignin for melting and producing a hard polymer of black color.
December 22, 2015
The AWB board has approved a $300,000 investment in Canadian Carnation Bioproducts as a loan. Canadian Ag-West Bio Director of Commercialization, Brad Bly encouraged the company for its plans of delivering Prairie Carnation derived bioproducts for bioremediation.