Red Leaf is Canada’s first producer of climate-positive alternative fibre and renewable energy. We are converting cereal grain straw to market pulp, bio-energy and bio-materials.
Red Leaf Pulp Ltd. was established by a group of experienced pulp and paper industry professionals looking to capitalize on the shift to providing a more sustainable pulp product to the market. Red Leaf will produce non-wood alternative fibre and renewable energy that will be sustainable in both production and use.
Our plant location is just West of Regina, Saskatchewan. We will be working with producers primarily within a 150 km radius of Regina. Our corporate office is in Kelowna, B.C.
Construction is scheduled to begin in Q1 2026 and full operations will commence in H1 2028.
Red Leaf expects to employ 140 full-time employees at the Regina facility by January 2027. This includes approximately 120 tradespeople and 20 management and staff. In addition, we anticipate employing independent contractors for security and trucking/logistics, likely numbering as high as 30-40 people.
You can contact us through our online contact form or by emailing us at info@redleafpulp.com. Our phone number is 1-(306) 808-2442.
Interested producers and balers can get started by filling out our short online form. We are primarily seeking producers within 150km of the Regina area, however in cases we will contract straw outside of the targeted area.
We expect that RLP will primarily begin straw supply contracts for the 2026 growing season and ahead of our Regina plant commissioning schedule. Interested producers can receive their quote by filling out our short online form.
We produce greater than 200,000 tonnes of market-grade pulp and greater than 20,000 tonnes of lignin. Our co-producers will use our market pulp to create a variety of sustainable products, as described below.
Red Leaf does not produce any paper products. We supply sustainable market pulp to co-producers to use in their own facilities. Some of our co-producers create paper, packaging, and hygiene products. Our pulp is designed to meet the needs of industries looking for environmentally-friendly alternatives to traditional materials.
Unlike traditional pulp producers that rely on wood, Red Leaf Pulp uses surplus cereal grain straw to create high-quality fibre. This process does not alter land use, is climate-positive, and is part of the circular economy.
We anticipate the net climate benefit of the facility to be 270,000t of CO2e per year. For more details and sources, please check out our sustainability page.
The demand for more sustainable packaging and hygiene has increased with environmental awareness. Red Leaf’s pulp is compostable, which reduces landfill waste. It’s also stronger and more flexible than kraft wood pulp. For more details, please see our data sheet about pulp.
Red Leaf’s production processes have many environmental advantages – significantly lower water, reagent and energy use, enhanced utilization of existing as-residual resources, novel alternative fuels, and creating a carbon positive pathway.
Red Leaf is Canada’s first producer of climate-positive alternative fibre and renewable energy. We are converting cereal grain straw to market pulp, bio-energy and bio-materials.
Red Leaf Pulp Ltd. was established by a group of experienced pulp and paper industry professionals looking to capitalize on the shift to providing a more sustainable pulp product to the market. Red Leaf will produce non-wood alternative fibre and renewable energy that will be sustainable in both production and use.
Our plant and operations are based in Regina, Saskatchewan. We will be working with producers primarily within a 150 km radius of Regina. Our corporate office is in Kelowna, B.C.
The plant will open in 2025. This will lead up to our 2026 commissioning of cereal grain straw in 2026 as described above. We expect to be on track for commercial production by 2027.
Red Leaf expects to employ 140 full-time employees at the Regina facility by January 2027. This includes approximately 120 tradespeople and 20 management and staff. In addition, we anticipate employing independent contractors for security and trucking/logistics, likely numbering as high as 30-40 people.
You can contact us through our online contact form or by emailing us at info@redleafpulp.com. Our phone number is 1-(306) 808-2442.
We will not manufacture products in-house.
Red Leaf is based in Saskatchewan, the centre of the Canadian prairies, home to
the world’s most dense wheat straw crop.
Wheat Straw
We will source our feedstock – wheat straw – from local farmers within a radius of
125 km of Regina. There are approximately 9 million acres of wheat and durum
crops in that area. We project that only 15% of the crops in this area will be needed
to fulfil Red Leaf’s production goals.
Water
SaskWater will be constructing a water line from Buffalo Pound Lake that Red Leaf
will tie into to access process water. This is the preferred water source of the Water
Security Agency. We will also be sourcing surplus water from the city of Regina’s
water supply.
Gas
Our gas will be sourced from SaskEnergy. Our power will be sourced from
SaskPower.
Interested producers and balers can get started by filling out our short online form. We are primarily seeking producers within 150km of the Regina area, however in cases we will contract straw outside of the targeted area.
We expect that RLP will primarily begin straw supply contracts for the 2026 growing season and ahead of our Regina plant commissioning schedule. Interested producers can receive their quote by filling out our short online form.
We produce market pulp, lignin, and electricity. For detailed information, please follow this link. Our market pulp is utilized by our partners to create a wide range of sustainable products, as outlined below.
Red Leaf does not produce any paper products. We supply sustainable market pulp to co-producers to use in their own facilities. Some of our co-producers create paper, packaging, and hygiene products. Our pulp is designed to meet the needs of industries looking for environmentally-friendly alternatives to traditional materials.
Unlike traditional pulp producers that rely on wood, Red Leaf Pulp uses surplus cereal grain straw to create high-quality fibre. This process does not alter land use, is climate-positive, and is part of the circular economy.
We anticipate the net climate benefit of the facility to be 270,000t of CO2e per year. For more details and sources, please check out our sustainability page.
The demand for more sustainable packaging and hygiene has increased with environmental awareness. Red Leaf’s pulp is compostable, which reduces landfill waste. It’s also stronger and more flexible than kraft wood pulp. For more details, please see our data sheet about pulp.
Red Leaf’s production processes have many environmental advantages – significantly lower water, reagent and energy use, enhanced utilization of existing as-residual resources, novel alternative fuels, and creating a carbon positive pathway.
