The grant will allow the company to scale deployment of its Clean Current technology, a first-of-its-kind, fossil fuel-free defense against crop disease.
HOLYOKE, Mass. Clean Crop Technologies (Clean Crop) today announced it has received $1.2 million in grant funding through the Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (M2I2), a program run by the Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CAM) at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech).
M2I2 helps bridge the gap between innovation and commercialization in manufacturing, primarily through grants for equipment capital expenditures. Clean Crop will use the M2I2 funding to engage with additional contract manufacturing partners across Massachusetts to satisfy rising demand for its product. The funds will also be used to scale the company’s team, capacity, revenue and impact on-site at its seed tolling facility in Holyoke, MA.
Clean Crop’s mission is to stop global crop loss at the source. The company’s EPA-approved Clean Current systemis a dry, fully electric and residue-free seed decontamination process that replaces fossil fuel-dependent and chemical treatments. By combining electricity and air to create cold plasma, the Clean Current system inactivates a broad spectrum of contaminants on seed surfaces. It is the world’s first industrial-scale, cold-plasma seed treatment device and can treat 25 – 50+ lbs. of seed per hour. To date, Clean Crop has signed $3.4 million in purchase orders for its Clean Current seed treatment from companies that represent 39% of the global vegetable seed market.