In our main photo: Terry Finn (Senior Vice President – Country Manager Canada at Sanimax), Gilles Lehouillier (Mayor of Lévis), Martine Biron (Minister) and Martial Hamel (CEO of Sanimax) in front of our new infrastructure.
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Sanimax is proud to have inaugurated its new state-of-the-art biofilter air treatment facility in Lévis today.
This important milestone was celebrated on April 14 in the presence of the media, Martine Biron (Minister of International Relations and La Francophonie, Minister Responsible for the Status of Women and Member for Chutes-de-la-Chaudière) and Gilles Lehouillier, Mayor of Lévis.
Carried out in close collaboration with the City of Lévis and the Quebec government, this garage is one of the commitments of the Government Action Plan 2022-2025, which provides a concrete response to the challenges of cohabitation, particularly during periods of extreme heat. Several of the Plan’s measures had already been implemented, including improving the capacity of the misting system, optimizing on-farm collection to improve raw material quality, by overhauling our transport logistics and improving truck reception conditions on site to reduce odor emissions.
The plant processes, among other things, animal carcasses recovered from farms, which degrade rapidly in the heat and can create certain nuisances. The construction of a 14,000 sq. ft., 12-door garage means that trailers loaded with raw materials awaiting processing can now be stored in a controlled environment.
However, this facility alone cannot fully resolve the challenges of cohabitation. These challenges are unfortunately dependent on the quality of the material recovered from the farms, where Sanimax has no direct control. This is why the Action Plan also includes solutions for preserving the quality of the material from the farm to the plant, notably through the installation of refrigerated sheds at farmers’ premises. In this respect, both Sanimax and the City of Lévis hope that the government will renew the action plan and propose a solution adapted to the reality of the breeders, which will ensure better cohabitation.
“As an essential link in the agri-food chain, Sanimax is doing its part to promote cohabitation, and hopes that all players in the chain will commit to taking action wherever they can,” says Martial Hamel, CEO of Sanimax.
Read more
- Our press release on the inauguration of the Lévis garage (in French)
- Sanimax’s February 2025 submission to the Quebec Ministry of Finance (in French)
The inauguration in photos (click on photos to enlarge)
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