Coronado completes Naturol deal

Naturol, the US company which develops technology to extract oils and other compounds from plants, has been bought by Canada's Coronado group.

Coronado Explorations of Canada has announced that it has completed its merger with Naturol, a Nevada-based company.

Coronado said that it had issued 50 million shares in exchange for 100 per cent of Naturol's outstanding common stock Naturol will now operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Coronado.

Naturol holds the exclusive US licence to proprietary technology for extraction of oils and bioactive compounds from natural materials. It is dedicated to becoming a global leader in the commercialisation of technology for the production of low cost, high quality extracts from natural materials.

Coronado said that Naturol's proprietary technologies would offer a benign, cost effective, alternative to current extraction technologies and would produce high quality extracts to be used in the $2 billion US market for pharmaceuticals, food, flavours and fragrances industries.