SERVICES
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Canflax offers high quality fiber flax varieties. Please contact us for pricing and availability.
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Canflax has a variety of pullers, turners, and balers available for parallelized harvesting services. Please contact us for pricing and availability.
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Along with harvesting machinery, Canflax offers a retting service, pulling, monitoring, and turning the crop as needed, to produce the highest quality retted fibre, and net the highest return for the farmer. Please inquire to see if your land is suitable for fibre flax production.
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Canflax offers parallelized harvesting and retting services for R&D projects.
In conjunction with partners, Canflax is engaged in seed breeding to provide the best quality fiber flax seeds for North American needs.
Canflax engages in R&D with its trusted partners, and supported by the CNRC.
CEROM
Groupe CTT
Testex
The Art of Retting
Retting is an artisanal fermentation process that has existed for thousands of years. A process whereby the natural enzymes of the flax plant eat the pectins bonding the fibres to the inner stalk, allowing the valuable fibre to be extracted. It is highly variable, requiring constant monitoring and flipping in the field depending on the weather and humidity, and is more of an art than a science. That is why in Europe they have 'flax men' or in French, liniculteurs: specialists who focus on only one crop, similar to fine wine or cheesemakers. Liniculteurs ensure that the harvest is pulled, turned, and baled at exactly the right time, ensuring the finest quality fibre.
North America lost that skill, choosing to pursue the easier, and more extensive process of harvesting flax seed, a commodity crop.
Canflax believes that producing superior and luxury goods takes intensive and specialized work, and does not shy away from artisanal processes. We believe that the solution to our future comes from the consumption of high quality, sustainable and natural goods. That is why we are proud to call ourselves liniculteurs.