Financial institution deal fast-tracks Lemnos hashish farm
Earlier this 12 months, then Metropolis of Higher Shepparton Mayor Kim O’Keeffe visited the Lemnos hashish farm with Cannatrek’s Tommy Huppert as development obtained beneath approach.
The hashish farm at present beneath development exterior Shepparton will likely be accelerated after the house owners, Cannatrek, secured important debt funding from the Commonwealth Financial institution.
Cannatrek monetary officer Brett Schwarz mentioned having a tier one financial institution help the Lemnos challenge was a “tremendously optimistic signal” of development within the medical hashish business.
“It ought to give the Australian public confidence we’re shifting ahead with a development technique to spice up our native financial system and ship high quality of life therapies to many Australians,” Mr Schwarz mentioned
Cannatrek government officer Tommy Huppert described it as a breakthrough for an business that relied closely on imported medicinal hashish.
“Our Shepparton facility dramatically reduces the necessity for imported merchandise and secures a vital low-cost medical provide chain for Australian sufferers,” Mr Huppert mentioned.
“(It) will allow Australia to proceed innovating in high quality plant-based medicines for individuals experiencing persistent ache, nervousness and insomnia, whereas additionally aiding with medical situations together with epilepsy, Parkinson’s and terminal diseases.”
Work being accelerated because of the Commonwealth Financial institution settlement embrace: outside and indoor develop services, a post-harvest facility, an extraction plant and packaging, storage, and nationwide distribution centre.
The Lemnos improvement will produce plant-based medicinal merchandise, with the capability to yield between 5 and 10 tonnes of dried premium-grade flower every year.
The power permits Cannatrek to be concerned in constructing its personal ‘seed to affected person’ provide chain, bringing collectively the community of all of the entities concerned within the manufacturing and nationwide distribution of therapeutic medicines from one web site.
