The World’s Largest Cannabis Facility

Aurora Cannabis is a Vancouver-based company in Canada that has begun construction of a growing facility in Leduc County, Alberta for the purposes of producing cannabis to sell for a profit. How big is it? When completed, it will be the size of 16 football fields. It is called Aurora Sky, and once done the greenhouse will cover 800,000 square feet and produce 100,000 kilograms of cannabis annually.

The company isn’t creating the place to win an award from the Guinness Book of World Records. “Our objectives are very clear: To build the largest production capacity with the highest production quality and the lowest production cost,” Steve Dobler, the president of Aurora Cannabis, said in a public statement. “We spent the past year evaluating and selecting the world’s best design concept for cannabis production on a massive scale.”

Operated and owned by Canadians living in Mountain View County near the Canadian Rockies, Aurora Cannabis is dedicated to growing safe, premium grade medical cannabis to deliver to patients throughout the country. Since the massive greenhouse will be located next to Edmonton International Airport (EIA), producing and distributing its product throughout the country will be easy. The enormous facility will also provide many paying jobs to the people living throughout the area.

“We spent the past year evaluating and selecting the world’s best design concept for cannabis production on a massive scale.”

“Aurora’s new facility will benefit from high-quality services available on site at EIA, including bonded warehousing, ground transportation access and air cargo connections across the country. EIA is already a major economic driver, with a GDP impact of over $1.1 billion annually, and with this and other new investments, over 2,000 new jobs will be created in 2017 through Aerotropolis development at EIA,” said Myron Keehn, Vice President of Commercial Development at the EIA.

“Aurora Sky will prepare the company to meet the rapidly growing medical demand, as well as position us for the soon to be legalized recreational market with the world’s largest and most sophisticated cannabis production facility,” said Neil Belot, Aurora’s Chief Brand Officer. “Our new facility’s location at Edmonton International Airport brings clear competitive advantages, and, we believe, reaffirms the Aurora Standard as the industry benchmark for innovation, leadership and strategic execution.”

This isn’t the first time the company has made headlines for their innovative developments. Back in September they developed an app for iPhones that would allow medical patients to order their medicine from the safety of their homes with the push of a smart phone button. The Cannabis Canada Association has estimated that there more than 90,000 medical cannabis patients exist within the country. Aurora alone has nearly 7,700 patients.

There is one reason why the company has decided to invest so much work and money into constructing such a massive, state-of-the-art facility: Demand. Vice President Cam Battley believes that since recreational cannabis is finally legalized across Canada, Aurora Sky will be in a perfect position, both geographically and economically, to benefit from supplying customers with what they want, when they want it, at an affordable rate.

“The demand is now about 130,000 patients in the medical cannabis system,” Battley said Thursday. “We need to expand to meet that demand and we also have our eye very much on the federal government’s intention to table legislation in the spring to legalize the consumer use.”

There are 36 companies across Canada licensed to grow, sell and distribute medical cannabis. Aurora Cannabis is just one of them. Across the United States of America, as cannabis is legalized here more and more, demand will grow until another company creates a similar greenhouse to fulfill the same expanding demand.