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History & Innovation

History & Innovation

We’ve been making a difference together since 1923.

Premier Tech is the story of one team, and how we’ve constantly reinvented our business approach and challenged existing paradigms to deliver on our commitments. Discover the journeys of our dual expertise in Materials and Biological Active Ingredients.

Materials Expertise

We are North American leaders in formulating, producing, and distributing peat moss-based growing media. With our extensive network of bogs, facilities, and distribution centers, Premier Tech products are available across North America, Latin America, and Europe.

Growing media in hands

1923

FOUNDATION

Premier Peat Moss Corporation is the very first company to distribute peat moss products in the Eastern United States.​​

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1968

PRO-MIX® LAUNCH

The official launch of PRO-MIX®, the first line of “soil-free” growing media developed from research by Cornell University. Since then, PRO-MIX® has been the industry’s standard regarding professional growing media.

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1993

MYCORRHIZAE MILESTONE

MYCORRHIZAE is introduced in growing media for the first time.

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2003

BIOFUNGICIDE BREAKTHROUGH

Innovation on the market with the launch of PRO-MIX® with BIO-FUNGICIDE, the very first growing medium with a biological control agent added to be approved by the United States’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).​​

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2005

MYCORRHIZAE

Establishing a new standard in the industry, Mycorrhizae Premier Tech, the most evolved mycorrhizal inoculant on the market, is now a standard ingredient in the PRO-MIX® products.​​

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2012

BIOLOGICAL SYNERGY

Major innovation with the launch of PRO-MIX® PLUS, the only synergy between BIOFUNGICIDE and MYCORRHIZAE that is 100% contaminant-free.

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2022

GROW BAG SOLUTIONS

Grow Bag Solutions with peat-based and coir-based media. Ensures ease of use and a quicker, cleaner set-up with reduced manipulation.

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2024

AGTIV® TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATION

AGTIV® co-brand, a technological endorser for PRO-MIX® that brings a new level of clarity to our products’ effects on plants.

Biological Active Ingredients Expertise

As global pioneers in industrial mycorrhizal inoculant production, we continue to explore additional natural biotechnologies. Our journey has led us to introduce Bacillus, rhizobium, and Serendipita to professional growers. Moreover, we've synergized these potent technologies to enhance crop quality and yield, ultimately benefiting our clients.

Tests conducted in a laboratory

1983

RESEARCH CENTER IN RIVIERE-DU-LOUP​​

The opening of the first Research in horticulture begins with the inauguration of the largest research center dedicated to the development of biotechnologies linked to growing media. ​

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1989

PRO-MIX® MYCORRHIZAE​​

First integration of mycorrhizae within growing media.​​

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1997

LAB FACILITY​​

​Construction of a 3,000 m2 lab facility dedicated to Innovation, Research and Development.​​

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2000

ASEPTIC PRODUCTION PLANT​​

First aseptic production plant using a mycoreactor to reproduce Glomus intraradices.​

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2006

AGRICULTURAL SALES TEAM

Development of a Canadian production process and sales team for the agricultural market.

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2009

SCALING UP

​Scaling up of the production process of the endomycorrhizal inoculant.​​
Launch of the MYKE® PRO product line in the agricultural market.​

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2015

EXPANSION

Creation of a business unit dedicated to agriculture with the new AGTIV® brand name.
Production of Premier Tech’s rhizobium and Bacillus inoculums.

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2021

CONTINUED INNOVATION

Commercialization of Premier Tech’s fourth active ingredient, Serendipita​​.