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Power Leaves Holdings Corp. announced a strategic manufacturing partnership with Tropical Crop SAS, Colombia's largest industrial contract manufacturer, to scale production of its decocainized coca extract products and convert its commercial pipeline into revenue. Under the deal, Tropical will serve as an industrial-scale packaging, formulation and quality-certifying partner, contributing active FDA food-manufacturing registration, INVIMA compliance and HACCP certifications, while Power Leaves retains control of leaf procurement, extraction and decocainization at its Cohetando campus. The company said the partnership supports a production scale-up from 24,000 litres of annualised capacity today to 360,000 litres by the end of 2026 and 2,000,000 litres by the end of 2027, an approximately 83-fold increase on current capacity. Power Leaves commercialises two products, Coca X and Coca E, both priced at a target of $100 per litre under supply agreements executed to date, and its active pipeline spans more than 100 companies across the global food, beverage and ingredient sectors. Chief executive Pat McCutcheon said the company is now working to execute similar arrangements in the United States on the same model, and Power Leaves expects initial commercial orders from major pipeline counterparties in the coming weeks.
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