Grants and Contributions

Expand manufacturing facility to meet product demand

Saltwinds is looking to hire a youth with an engineering background and knowledge of automation to help the company transition from manual and semi-manual production methods to more automated manufacturing equipment and techniques. This will assist the company in increasing its production capabilities to meet rising sales demands.

The technical resource will help to develop Saltwinds coffee roasting innovations with the aim of deploying these innovations in large scale production roasting and potentially into monetizable IP. These innovations include Saltwinds proprietary ocean air coffee infusion
process as well as Saltwinds reduced emissions roasting process. The candidate will be involved in production roasting, will carry out QA/QC as they refine the firm's roasting innovations, and will be a part of the firm's ongoing continuous improvement efforts.

Through the application of national and local priorities, the CSJ program seeks to provide youth, particularly those who face barriers to employment with access to work opportunities. Funded employers must demonstrate that they are providing quality work experiences for youth that provide opportunities to develop and improve their skills.

Saltwinds Coffee currently offers a unique coffee product that has been infused with ocean air. This treatment simulates the conditions that coffee would have been exposed to when being shipping in wooden sailing boats in the 1700s and 1800s. This ocean air infused coffee is extremely popular and often sells faster than it can be produced. The infusion process is currently done in a batch method which limits scale and generates variability. The company wishes to now develop a scalable, continuous production method that generates a product of the same or increased quality and offers the potential to increase production speed.

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

Purchase equipment to support expansion and meet domestic and export market demand

The technical resource will help to develop Saltwinds coffee roasting innovations with the aim of deploying these innovations in large scale production roasting and potentially into monetizable IP. These innovations include Saltwinds proprietary ocean air coffee infusion
process as well as Saltwinds reduced emissions roasting process. The candidate will be involved in production roasting, will carry out QA/QC as they refine the firm's roasting innovations, and will be a part of the firm's ongoing continuous improvement efforts. This resource will also enable the firm's COO, Dr Richard, to focus more on strategic R&D by offloading her daily production responsibilities.

Through the application of national and local priorities, the CSJ program seeks to provide youth, particularly those who face barriers to employment with access to work opportunities. Funded employers must demonstrate that they are providing quality work experiences for youth that provide opportunities to develop and improve their skills.

Saltwinds Coffee currently offers a unique coffee product that has been infused with ocean air. This treatment simulates the conditions that coffee would have been exposed to when being shipping in wooden sailing boats in the 1700s and 1800s. This ocean air infused coffee is extremely popular and often sells faster than it can be produced. As the company scales, this speed of production in the current processing method is a limiting factor to expansion and export. As such, Saltwinds will be exploring new methods and method variations for ocean air infusion, with a goal of increasing the processing speed by 3 to 4x.