Air Quality Demand: Opportunity or Insurmountable Challenge for Canadian Manufacturing?

Canadian manufacturing has shone brightly during this pandemic demonstrating creativity, adaptability, and resilience as an industry. At the front of the pandemic was our awakening that critical manufacturing such as electronics, PPE, and vaccines, had left Canada. The pandemic further forced us to reckon with our vulnerabilities, particularly to small, microscopic air-borne virus particles and an indoor ventilation infrastructure that…

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Why Manufacturing Still Needs Humans

Manufacturing is the creative expression of the human mind. Throughout history, humans have problem solved and created technology to make life easier. From harnessing fire to using simple tools, manufacturing has allowed humans to build complex machines and societies. It is the most human expression of innovation –to meet a need. Even within the smartest manufacturing plants in the world – it is…

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5 Innovative Ideas Inspiring Change

Greta Thunberg. Volcanoes erupting. Australia burning. If we’re listening, we need to ask if what we’re doing is enough to protect the planet and cool the effects of the current and very real climate crisis? As we start a new year and a new decade, we have been inspired by those driving environmental change around the globe. For example, have…

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Tackling Tariffs: How Canadian OEM’s Can Save

The Tariff Effect It’s hard to listen to the news without hearing the word, ‘tariff’.  Since March 20181 tariffs have hit Canadian manufacturing industries hard.  CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) started a show this fall called ‘Cost of Living’.  The very first show focused on the sustained uncertainty and unpredictability tariffs have caused in our economy and their far-reaching impact on…

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Made in Canada – Innovation, Quality and Growth

In a special report to Canadian Business (2018) the single largest sector represented in Growth 500 companies in Canada was manufacturing. Across Canada’s provinces, from British Columbia to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, manufacturing in a variety of industries is seeing between 363%-1,635% average 5-year growth.1 Specifically, 705% average growth in Ontario alone.1 What’s exciting is that Canada is moving…

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