Vancouver, BC (March 24, 2021) - Clean Seed Capital Group Ltd. announces the company has entered into an agreement to lease a new custom build facility in Saskatoon, SK.

This 16,000 square foot facility and its surrounding grounds will be the cornerstone for the early commercialization plans of the SMART Seeder MAX/MAX-S™. Centrally located in Western Canada, this flagship facility will be home to the assembly of the SMART Seeder MAX-S™ and related electronics systems, sales, and customer experience infrastructure, dealer support and related research and development activities.

Clean Seed will be hiring new skilled workers during the next twelve months for this facility to scale to customer demand for the new SMART Seeder MAX/MAX-S™.

Related to initiating operations in Saskatchewan, Clean Seed:

  • has become a member of the Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership (STEP). STEP champions Saskatchewan’s export industry and assists provincial businesses in realizing global marketing opportunities. STEP offers its members a variety of services and programs that can help diversify customer bases and grow business around the globe.
  • will have the ability to initiate its benefit under the Saskatchewan Commercial Innovation Incentive (SCII) program. Clean Seed was the first Company approved for the patent box SCII program as approved by the Saskatchewan Ministry of the Economy. The incentive will allow the Company to reduce its provincial income tax rate from 12% to 6% per cent for 15 years commencing anytime at the Company’s discretion.

“We look forward to setting up operations in the heart of the Canadian prairies, providing a central location for our operations team on the ground," states Graeme Lempriere, Chief Executive Officer. "This latest milestone further demonstrates our unwavering commitment to the launch of our award-winning smart seeding and planting technologies and is representative of a dynamic and highly productive time for our organization.”

The common shares of Clean Seed Capital Group Ltd. are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and trade under the symbol "CSX".

We are a team of innovators and business management professionals with a proven track record of game changing innovation and production of patented agricultural technologies at an incredibly high level. We pride ourselves as progress facilitators that turn solutions for modern agricultural problem into commercially viable products to fulfill new demand.

Clean Seed’s SMART Seeder™ technologies are revolutionary seeding tools that utilize the unique synergy of sophisticated electronic metering and intuitive software control putting row-by-row variable rate technology at the forefront of agricultural innovation. Our innovations create a new class of highly accurate seeding equipment designed specifically for today’s farmer.

For further information please contact Clean Seed at 604-566-9895 and visit our website at http://www.cleanseedcapital.com.

Saskatchewan Welcomes Clean Seed to Province

Leading Agricultural Technology Company Expands Operations with Saskatchewan Facility

Saskatoon, SK (April 13, 2021) - The Government of Saskatchewan welcomed Clean Seed Capital Group Limited ("Clean Seed"), an Agricultural Seeding Technology company, to the province.

Clean Seed is expanding their operations through the lease of a newly built 16,000 square foot facility located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which will be the heart of the company's Canadian prairie operations and cornerstone for early commercialization plans for the SMART SeederTM MAX/MAX-S.

"We are delighted to welcome Clean Seed to Saskatchewan," Trade and Export Development Minister Jeremy Harrison said. "This is great news for our province that will create good local jobs, support economic recovery and help our province continue to grow. Clean Seed's uniquely, all-Canadian created SMART Seeder technology is set to make a difference from the ground up in Saskatchewan, as the province continues to lead in revolutionizing the global ag sector."

As a business that will be performing research and development activities in Saskatchewan, Clean Seed becomes the first company in the province to benefit from the Saskatchewan Commercial Innovation Incentive (SCII) program. The first of its kind in North America, SCII is a new-growth tax incentive that offers eligible corporations a reduction of the provincial Corporate Income Tax Rate to six per cent for 10 consecutive years for corporations that commercialize their qualifying intellectual property in Saskatchewan. Companies can extend the benefit period to 15 years if at least 50 per cent of the related research and development was conducted in Saskatchewan. The SCII is administered by the Ministry of Trade and Export Development and helps to make Saskatchewan an attractive, competitive jurisdiction for businesses to commercialize exceptional intellectual property.

"Clean Seed is proud to be building the operational foundation of our organization in Saskatoon," Clean Seed Capital Group Chairman and CEO Graeme Lempriere said. "Much of our technology development work was rooted in Saskatchewan and we look forward to driving rapid growth with the most sophisticated planting and seeding technology on the market, proudly built here in Canada."

The Saskatoon facility will focus on electronics and machine assembly, sales, customer experience, customer training, parts, service, warranty, as well as research and development.