About Us

Greenfield’s mission is to unlock the potential of people, partnerships and nature to accelerate sustainable solutions for the health of the planet.

Here’s how Greenfield Global stands apart:

INNOVATION
We are constantly seizing opportunities to develop new products, processes and methods to meet the diverse and demanding requirements of our customers.

COLLABORATION
We are part catalyst, part collaborator. We work with partners to get the most out of our existing products, and to develop custom solutions for our customer requirements.

RESPONSIBILITY
Our commitment to give back to local communities in the US and Canada goes beyond the bottom line. We give back to the planet by processing renewable resources into low carbon fuels and chemicals.

AGILITY
Our team is not only fast, it has the flexibility and creativity to pivot with customer needs to develop custom-made, on-time solutions.

DISCIPLINE
At every plant, and for every customer, for every shipment, we put quality first. We operate a tight, transparent supply chain while meeting the highest regulatory standards.

Truly Green

Production at our ethanol plant in Chatham, Ontario generates CO2 from fermentation as well as excess heat energy from our grain drying operations. We partnered with a nearby tomato greenhouse facility to pipe excess CO2 into their greenhouses to boost tomato growth. But that’s not all. With Ontario’s climate, the cost of heating challenges the economics of industrial greenhouses. So we captured waste heat from our grain drying process through a heat exchanger and through closed-loop piping underground to help heat the greenhouses. The result: bigger tomatoes, energy costs reduced by 40-50%, the first greenhouse facility in North America to be warmed by waste heat—and a thriving new business in Canada’s agricultural economy.

Partners and Leaders in CBD Extraction

For more than 20 years, Greenfield Global has been supporting companies that use high-purity solvents for extraction. With the recent rise in companies using ethanol to extract Cannabidiol (CBD), we’ve become a trusted supply partner in this space. What makes us stand apart: we can provide pharma-grade quality extraction products for CBD that have proven successful in the food and flavour industries. We bring our regulatory expertise to the table and develop tax-free, special denatured blends that make customers more competitive. Our production capabilities have allowed us to scale our operations quickly to meet product and quality needs. We have installed a 13,000-gallon blend tank at our Kentucky plant to supply denatured alcohol for use in the CBD extraction process. This ability to supply high-quality ethanol in a wide range of order sizes has allowed us to become a key supply partner to this sector.

Full Circle

In a unique partnership with local regional municipalities, Greenfield was selected to help develop and operate a large-scale 40,000 tonnes per year anaerobic digester (AD) facility. The facility is designed to process 40,000 of organic waste sourced from 27 municipalities along the south shore of the greater Montreal area into bio-methane. In addition to removing 40 000 tons of annual waste from landfill, Greenfield will use the bio-methane to help fuel its Varennes ethanol plant. The resulting bi-product will become fertilizer for the 400 regional farmers who supply Greenfield with corn. It will also help Quebec meet their pending ban on organic waste. It’s a win-win-win situation for all involved.

Together with our partners - private, public, and government - we’re building a low-carbon economy from the ground up. And it’s thriving.

1989
Company founded as Sunroot with the Tiverton industrial alcohol plant
1991
Sunroot acquires the customer base, packaging assets, and brands of Commercial Alcohols Ltd.
1992
Sunroot is incorporated as Commercial Alcohols Inc.
1997
Chatham, Ontario, ethanol plant opens; and Company acquires a controlling interest in Pharmco Products Inc.
2002
Company consolidates its ownership of Pharmco Products Inc.
2006
Company acquires Aaper Alcohol and Chemical Company which is merged with Pharmco to become the leading manufacturer of packaged alcohols and solvents in the USA
2007
Varennes, Quebec, ethanol plant opens
2008
Johnstown, Ontario, ethanol plant opens
2009
Portfolio expands from fuel ethanol and bulk industrial alcohol to include specialty chemicals for the Life Sciences sector
2013
New brand Greenfield Specialty Alcohols launch
2017
Greenfield Global corporate brand introduced
2020
Greenfield opens facility in Portlaoise, Ireland
From our inception in 1988, Greenfield Global has grown from a single plant in Tiverton to a global leader with manufacturing and packaging facilities in the US and Canada that reach the entire world.