AGT Foods expanding into oat market

AGT Foods has announced plans to build a value-added oat milling facility in Saskatchewan.

Construction on the expansion of their Aberdeen facility will begin right away, with the oat milling operation expected to be up and running by the end of 2022.

The area is known to supply about 30 per cent of Canada's oat production.

The facility will feature state-of-the-art food technologies.

President and CEO of AGT Murad Al-Katib says they are excited about the new venture.

He points out that oats are very complementary to pulses in their amino acid profile, which increases their digestibility and gives them highly desirable characteristics for extruded products like snacks and pasta, bakery applications and the beverage industry.

"With demand strong and growing for innovative plant-based products in the marketplace, and with a number of new products being offered in our system utilizing oats, including extruded flours and blends, snacks and pastas with oats and pulses, we expect that our existing and new customers will find our unique oat-derived products to provide significant advantages for their products as well."