icron Awarded Industrial Design Certificate of Registration for Food and Cannabis Waste Digester
09 Jul 2018 07:00 ET
GlobeNewswire
Micron Waste Technologies Inc. (the "Company") (CSE:MWM) (OTC:MICWF) (Frankfurt:7FM2), a leading developer of aerobic digester solutions for the treatment of organic food and cannabis waste, has been awarded an Industrial Design Certificate of Registration from the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) for its commercial Organic Waste Digester Unit. Micron's Application Number 177758 sought and won intellectual property protection for innovative features unique to Micron's unit, which processes both food waste and cannabis plant waste on a commercial scale. The Company's design patent is also pending in the United States.
The CIPO design patent is valid for five years with an option to renew for an additional five years of exclusivity. The new functional design enhances food waste digestion efficiency by up to 40% while reducing the machine's footprint and waste digestion time. The patent-pending technology was repurposed for Micron's Cannabis Waste Digester. The Company's first Cannabis Waste Digester unit was delivered to Aurora Cannabis Inc.'s ("Aurora") (TSX:ACB) Mountain facility outside Calgary, Alberta on June 28, 2018. At 55,200 square foot Aurora Mountain, which produces 4,800 kg of premium cannabis each year, the unit will undergo final site installation and calibration to match production cycles.
The Cannabis Waste Digester, an industrial-grade organic waste processor, pulverizes and renders organic waste in combination with a proprietary blend of microbes and enzymes designed and developed by Micron. Importantly, as part of Micron's full-system waste treatment platform, effluent from the digester is further treated to derive clean greywater which can be re-used in industrial or agricultural operations. Alternatively, the treated regulatory-compliant greywater from the Cannabis Waste Digester, which meets municipal discharge standards, can be safely discharged. Active pharmaceutical compounds in cannabis waste are further biologically treated to denature cannabinoids present, keeping them out of waste streams.
"Receipt of the CIPO Industrial Design Certificate is further testament to Micron's innovation in agricultural and organic waste processing biotechnology and engineering," said Micron President Alfred Wong. "It has always been Micron's intention to create a system that was not only best-in-class, but one that re-invented that class entirely. Our platform marries organic waste digestion with water reclamation and purification to solve our customers' waste processing needs cleanly, cost-effectively and without dumping effluent downstream where it causes problems for municipal waste treatments pla
