Hello everyone! Please take note that our Swanton Store is changing to a Summer Schedule and our opening hours are a bit different than usual!
Here’s our schedule until Labor Day 2023:
MONDAY : 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM
TUESDAY : 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM
WEDNESDAY : 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM
THURSDAY : 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM
FRIDAY : 8 AM to 12 PM
Thank you and have a great summer time!
We want to thank everyone who attended our Open House Event in Swanton last week! Congrats to Tom Dunkley our $2,000 Travel Voucher winner and to Mark Whitney, winner of the $1,500 equipment gift card!
You made this event a success, see you next year!
Leader-H2O
49 Jonergin Drive, Swanton, VT 05488
The 2023 catalog is officially available! You will find all H2O Innovation’s products, our new features as well as several products from our new brand Leader Evaporator. We hope you will appreciate it, have a great sugaring season!
Important security update for 2023!
To better serve our Smartrek clients, they now need to migrate to the new H2O server, a few steps to be followed, here are the instructions :
Our Swanton, Vermont sales team & store have recently moved to a new location! Our new address is 49 Jonergin Dr, Swanton, VT, 05488. The phone number to reach us remains the same at 802-868-6732.
Our former office located at 127 Grand Ave., Swanton, VT, 05488 is now permanently closed.
Come see us!
We are very proud and excited to welcome Leader Evaporator to the H2O Family!
The addition of Leader’s activities to H2O Innovation’s existing maple syrup equipment offering will allow the Corporation to meet the needs of a greater number of maple syrup producers. This new alliance, which combines tradition and innovation, will strengthen the Corporation’s ability to support maple syrup producers in their growth by offering everything from entry-level equipment for smaller producers to state-of-the-art technologies for larger producers. H2O Innovation’s extensive knowledge of membrane filtration will also benefit Leader’s customers.
Read the official Press Release here
Are you interested in a stimulating job in a growing & international Quebec-based business? Come work with us!
Many openings are now available at our Ham-Nord plant (near Victoriaville, QC).
As you know our R&D department work effortlessly to come up with new products for maple syrup producers. This year, we decided to revisit a classic, our MINI RO 4. The same machine has new improved features as you can see below:
Holidays are approaching fast! The sugaring season too! Why not combine the useful & the pleasant? Offer this 10-tap maple sugaring kit to a family member or to a friend interested in the fascinating world of culture & production of maple syrup. The kit includes : 10 blue spouts, 10 sap buckets, 10 bucket lids, a 5/16 tapping bit, a syrup filter, a thermometer and 3 syrup bottles 250ml.
Available at Latulippe for people living in the Quebec area and also available in our H2O Innovation stores of Ham-Nord & Swanton!
819-344-2288 | 802-868-6732
It has been more than 10 years since H2O Innovation use Ultrafiltration technology into the water treatment by membrane filtration market. We are definitly pioneers in introducing this technology and transposing it to the field of maple syrup production. It was in 2014 when the first UF machine got into a sugar house. As of today, we now have 3 of those operating in the maple market.
Here are some important benefits of this technology:
– Ultrafiltration allows the sap or concentrate to pass through the pores of the membrane, but it limits the passage of bacteria and suspended matter. This process thus makes it possible to purify the sap or the concentrate in order to increase the preservation time and improve the purity of the product. Currently the technology is used by producers who sell sap (around 2 Brix) for bottling, and to some customers who want to buy a concentrate of maple sap that is in between 20 and 45 Brix as a sweetening agent. Maple sugar (not evaporated in the form of concentrate) is a natural and organic sugar with a low glycemic index. Demand in the food market is very strong for natural sugar, and even more so for maple sugar.
– Many producers are selling their concentrate to companies who are using this as a sweetening agent substituting refined sugar.
– Some producers use filtered maple sap for bottling, particularly for sale of the recently popular bottled maple sap water.
Read an article on H2O’s Ultrafiltration used in a big sugarbush (French) : HERE
Read an article on maple sap treatment (French) : HERE