By turning agricultural wastes into valuable products, IMUS has the potential to diversify Canada’s agriculture industry. The technology allows feedlot operators not only to reduce their manure handling costs but also to add value to their existing operations by producing a marketable bio-fertilizer product. 

While biogas technologies already exist to handle liquid waste, IMUS is the only biogas plant of its kind in the world that handles both solid and liquid manure. In developing the technology, the IMUS team took a multidisciplinary approach incorporating soil science, microbiology, agronomy, chemical process and mechanical engineering. The technology can be easily adapted to other organic wastes, such as food-processing wastes, rendering materials and municipal wastes.

The IMUS technology is licensed exclusively to Highmark Renewables, a new Alberta-owned company.