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McMaster University Launches Their First Ever Integrated Business and Humanities Program

Foreign Direct Investment Raises Hamilton’s International Profile

Advanced Manufacturing Jobs are in High Demand

Stryker Expands and Invests in Hamilton

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s you read through this fantastic publication, think about this. Just a few short years ago the world was emerging from the grips of the Great Recession. Unemployment rates were in the double digits in some parts of the country, and uncertainty surrounded.

But Hamilton was in the beginnings of Canada’s leading renaissance story.

We emerged from this period having one of the lowest unemployment rates, multiple years of $Billion + in building permits and an exorbitant amount of positive national media coverage.

Today, Hamilton’s economy is ranked the most diversified in the nation, we are welcoming major investments from multinationals like Suez, IBM, Mondelez, Stryker and ArcelorMittal as well as enjoying exponential growth in life sciences and digital technology industries.

As you read the stories, learn about our business community and absorb the information, know that Hamilton is a city that has never given up. Our tenacity has helped us not only to survive, but thrive and shown the rest of the nation that we are truly unstoppable.

Welcome to Unstoppable.

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DeGroote School of Business is producing Hamilton’s next generation of workforce-ready future leaders. Sharpminded graduates of the Integrated Business & Humanities program will join Canada’s most diversified municipality, the 9th best city to raise a family, and home to thriving business sectors such as advanced manufacturing.

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Foreign Direct Investment Raises Hamilton’s International Profile The City of Hamilton’s ambitious foreign direct investment work is paying off in jobs, investment, and awards.

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he City launched its FDI strategy in 2015, which focuses on raising Hamilton’s international profile and securing new investment in the target sectors of ICT and digital media, life sciences, agri-business and food processing, clean technology and advanced manufacturing.

“It is an area into which we are pumping renewed focus, resources and energy and we know will pay off in jobs and tax growth,” said Glen Norton, director of economic development.

Hamilton is now a member of the Consider Canada Cities Alliance (CCCA), which unites 13 of Canada’s largest municipalities to lure global investment, and will be part of an upcoming delegation to Europe.

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“ Foreign investment is a key area of future economic growth for Hamilton.

We are so favourably located in Canada and in Ontario and we offer many advantages. We are concentrating on getting that story out globally,” said Glen Norton, Director of Economic Development.

That will cap a year in which the City of Hamilton Economic Development Office was awarded the best foreign director investment strategy for a mid-sized North American city by fDi Magazine (a subsidiary of the Financial Times in London). It was also recognized as a Top 10 city for economic development overall and for connectivity and business friendliness.

“We are extremely proud of these awards and we think it shows we are

certainly doing the right things when it comes to foreign direct investment,” said Norton.

“We’ve been doing it all along but quietly. Now, it’s formalized and focused,” said Jennifer Patterson, senior business development officer for investment and trade.

“We are being very strategic about our international outreach.”

The City collaborates with McMaster University, Mohawk College, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton Port Authority, Hamilton International Airport, and Hamilton Chamber of Commerce in an Invest Hamilton partnership.

“We can’t do it all. We have to work together and take advantage of what everyone is doing to get Hamilton’s name out there in the world,” said Patterson.

The City is also part of networks, including the Ontario Food Cluster, the Ontario Manufacturing Communities Alliance and the Ontario Real Estate Investment Alliance, that allow municipalities to leverage pooled marketing resources into something much

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greater than they could do individually, says Patterson.

In September, a Hamilton contingent went on a trade mission to Colombia, a key and growing opportunity nurtured in a partnership with Niagara Region.

Patterson says at least a dozen companies in Colombia are exploring investing in Hamilton.

The McMaster-Fraunhofer Project Centre for Biomedical and Advanced Manufacturing (BEAM) is a prime example of the results of a focused approach to foreign investment.

The centre is expected to move into its new home at McMaster Innovation Park in March but its work is already well underway, said BEAM director John Brennan.

“The building doesn’t exist yet but projects have been ongoing since 2014 and there has been a lot of value in learning the Fraunhofer approach. They are a world leader in commercializing university research.”

When Germany’s Fraunhofer, a network of 69 research institutes, considered 10 universities in Canada for a partnership, McMaster was the “best match” due to strengths in cell therapy, engineering, diagnostics, and clinical trials, said Brennan.

Brennan expects the Fraunhofer centre, and its 100 jobs, to draw future economic opportunity. Eight Canadian companies have projects ongoing and it’s expected German companies will incubate in BEAM, too. A university incubation hub to be located next door has just been announced.

“A lot of new skills will transfer to Hamilton,” said Brennan.

Another foreign investment success story is SUEZ Water Technologies and Solutions, a French-based international giant in water, wastewater, landfill and energy-from-waste solutions.

It acquired Anderson Water Systems, an Ancaster engineering company in 2000, expanding operations in 2015 and 2017 and now employing 80. In November, it officially opened a newly built ozone plant that will export products to 45 countries.

“Year after year, the development of the worldwide economy and the Canadian economy made it an easy decision to invest here,” said Cesare Angeretti, vicepresident of operations. “There is an incredible cluster of water expertise and technology in this region.”

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Welcome to the Education City The foundation of Hamilton’s transformation into a highly diverse knowledge-based economy is the city’s educational sector, including a worldleading university and a college that consistently tops student satisfaction ratings.

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ot only is education the fourthhighest employment sector in the city, it fuels the labour needs of existing businesses, attracts new investment and talent to Hamilton, and is a leading source of innovation and entrepreneurialism.

Hamilton is home to five postsecondary institutions, along with an impressive range of public, Catholic, French-language and private elementary and secondary schools. The latter includes the renowned Hillfield Strathallan College and Canada’s largest boarding school at Columbia International College.

“It cannot be overstated how important our educational institutions are to the goal of building the best workforce in Ontario, one of the targets of our five-year economic development action plan,” said Glen Norton, director

of economic development for the City of Hamilton.

“They are critical partners in building the Hamilton of tomorrow.”

McMaster University Recent accolades for McMaster University include the Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities, in which McMaster placed 66th place globally and third in Canada, and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings in which it ranked 78th in the world among 18,000 universities.

“As our international stature continues to grow, so too does our ability to attract great researchers, students and partners who want to work with us in creating

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McMaster is also a leader in research and commercialization, much of it focused at McMaster Innovation Park.

Deane says one of the primary strengths of the city’s education sector is its willingness to collaborate.

“Hamilton’s higher education institutions leap at the chance to work with each other, the City and other partners to create new opportunities for students, our researchers, and our community. CityLAB is but one great example of McMaster, Mohawk and Redeemer working directly with the city and community stakeholders to support the city’s strategic priorities.”

Another example is tech accelerator The Forge, a partnership between McMaster, Mohawk College, the Innovation Factory and the Ontario Network of Entrepreneurs. In three years, it’s been the starting point for 80 companies.

Mohawk College Mohawk College educates 30,000 full-time, part-time and apprenticeship students each year. It’s the largest trainer of apprentices in Ontario and is among the top 15 colleges in Canada for applied research. Mohawk is undertaking the largest renewal of labs and classrooms in its history.

Mohawk is recognized as a leader in health and technology education, delivering collaborative degree programs with McMaster University, and making the College critical partners in Hamilton’s economy. The College is home to

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applied research centres of excellence focused on mobile and digital health solutions, additive manufacturing and energy distribution.

“Mohawk College is proud to call Hamilton home and play a part in making a great community an even better place to live, work and learn. Our greatest economic contribution is the 120,000 job-ready students who’ve graduated from Mohawk,” said president Ron McKerlie.

Mohawk is No. 1 for student satisfaction among all colleges in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area for seven years in a row and has topped satisfaction surveys among graduates five years in a row.

Redeemer University College Redeemer University College is a privately funded Christian undergraduate university offering degrees in arts, science and education. Redeemer is home to 647 students and boasts an average class size of 20 and a faculty to student ratio of 14:1.

“Redeemer has prepared the next generation of differencemakers for 35 years. As a faith-based university, Redeemer brings a diverse perspective to the issues and challenges facing Hamilton and our wider community,” said Fred Verwoerd, interim president.

“Many Redeemer graduates settle in the area and have made significant contributions to ensuring that Hamilton is the kind of innovative, forwardthinking city in which citizens can thrive.”

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McMaster Launches Their First-Ever Integrated Business and Humanities Program

This fall, for the very first time, McMaster University welcomed some of the sharpest young minds in Canada into the Integrated Business and Humanities (IBH) program.

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ointly developed by the university’s DeGroote School of Business and Faculty of Humanities, the program was conceived to produce the country’s next generation of business leaders.

Fifty-two students were selected from hundreds of applicants and began their studies in September.

The inaugural cohort was selected based on academic standing, leadership qualities, extracurricular activities, volunteerism, and community

engagement. In addition, each student took part in a wide-ranging online interview prior to admission.

First-year classes include topics such as Introduction to Ethics; Foundations of Community Engagement; Business Environment and Organization; and Insight and Inquiry: Questions to Change the World.

“In my class, for example, the format is very interactive. That’s a key component of the program,” says Emad Mohammad, IBH Director, and Associate Professor, Accounting and Financial Management Services, at DeGroote.

“Students are very much participants in the learning process. They’re highly engaged, as far as lectures go. We always have in-class debates, and they ask probing questions and initiate discussion.

They don’t need much encouragement to get involved, believe me,” he continues.

Discussion comes easily for a reason.

The majority of coursework involves real-time case studies, with students and faculty examining current issues as they develop around the globe. Fittingly, nearly half the inaugural cohort can speak more than one language. Near the end of their studies, students will also participate in an international service learning trip coordinated by ME to WE. Associate Dean of Humanities, Anna Moro, says the program is bringing a humanistic perspective to the study of commerce, something she feels is increasingly critical in the business world. “The Humanities offerings in this program will help provide students with the foundation they need to develop these indispensable skills,” she begins.

“We need business leaders with the ability to deal with uncertainty, and with the complexities generated by the multiple cultures, histories,

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systems, and viewpoints of our interconnected world, as well as leaders who understand the far-reaching consequences of their decisions, and are guided by an ethical framework.”

Two months in, the IBH program is already garnering international attention.

The Atlantic recently devoted 2,000 words to the program, with one of its education writers spending a full day at McMaster in September, meeting with faculty and students and touring the campus.

“It’s a business major aimed at turning out what it says will be future corporate leaders, for which students also are required to take philosophy, language, culture, and other humanities courses toward an eventual degree in business,” wrote Atlantic contributor Jon Marcus. “Employers highly value what humanities majors learn in college, focus groups and surveys show.”

For Toronto native Yael Morris, earning a Commerce degree while focusing on philanthropy and ethical business practices offered everything she was looking for in a university experience. After visiting McMaster in May and conversing with faculty and staff, she knew it was meant to be.

“I think the IBH program is exactly the right fit for me,” says the 18-yearold alumna of North Toronto Collegiate Institute. “In fact, it’s almost as if they designed the program to meet my own priorities.” On the whole, Morris believes businesses can do societal good while still serving the needs of their owners, investors, and corporate leaders.

“There is also a need to think about how services and products can better serve populations,” she continues. “Combining business and the humanities will bring people together by working toward common goals, with the aim of making societies healthier and happier.”

Graduates of the program will possess sharp critical thinking skills, personal and ethical values, and emotional intelligence to help transform communities at home and abroad. “We know these students are going to make a tangible difference in the world,” adds Mohammad. “It’s only a matter of time.”

Visit degrooteschool.ca/ibh to learn more about the Integrated Business and Humanities program.

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Mohawk College Mirrors Rapid Transformation in Advanced Manufacturing

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ohawk College has been training job-ready skilled workers for the crucial manufacturing sector in southern Ontario for 50 years.

Industry has seen massive transformations and the pace of change is only exponentially accelerating, says Dean of Engineering Technology David Santi.

Mohawk is now so attuned to what’s happening that it is gearing up curriculum shifts in advance of changes coming to the shop floor, he says. That results in being able to deliver graduates who are consistently job-ready.

“That is important because the window is small. Many times it’s a vertical take-off. There was a longer runway to prepare for the pace of technological change in the past. It’s coming so fast now that agility is paramount.”

Mohawk is a leader in engineering technology education and the largest trainer of apprentices in Ontario.

This year, the College will graduate close to 1,000 students in engineering technology. A majority will go into an

advanced manufacturing environment, says George Miltenburg, Associate Dean of Engineering Technology.

Mohawk is also the platform for retraining and skills upgrades for the existing labour force in an advanced manufacturing sector dependent on continuous lifelong learning.

Mohawk’s mission to make its students job-ready means “we are constantly examining what makes a graduate most attractive to an employer; what makes them stand out,” said Santi.

Students are trained on the latest equipment and processes in Mohawk’s cutting-edge technology labs, including additive manufacturing and robotics. The College has partnered with suppliers of advanced manufacturing technology and equipment that power factories all over the world.

“In southern Ontario, advanced manufacturing has a pressing need to improve productivity, quality and delivery times. In order to do that, we need to apply different ways of thinking,” said Santi.

That requires employing machine learning and sophisticated

Mohawk’s FANUC Robotics Lab

data intelligence to strive for constant improvement. Technology allows for constant, real-time information in performance dashboards that can be quickly analyzed to make immediate adjustments to maximize efficiency.

That may mean something as simple as predicting the failure of a pump and repairing it before it causes a costly shutdown of a production line, says Santi. Multiply that by the thousands of components in a factory setting and the complexity and importance of data collection is crystal clear.

“Where Mohawk comes in is that medium to smaller companies can use the College as a learning lab to understand industrial processes and equipment, and help with diagnostics and testing and redesigns to improve efficiencies and competitiveness,” said Santi.

The College is the process of building a mini factory that will virtually link six to eight labs to simulate the departments in a factory setting. Data will be collected in the cloud and presented on performance dashboards to recreate

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the daily operations of a manufacturing facility.

“We have industrial partners, major multinationals on board, who are eager to get it off the ground,” said Miltenburg. “It’s an opportunity to showcase their latest equipment in an industrial setting. Mohawk becomes their showroom for local manufacturers.”

Santi and Miltenburg know of no other educational institution doing anything like it.

Leading the partnerships are Siemens and FANUC, both giants in industrial automation, and Cisco, a leader in information networks. Students can earn certifications embedded in the curriculum and graduates are prepared to write external exams to earn industrial certificates.

Ron McKerlie, President, Mohawk College and Glen Norton, Director of Economic Development, City of Hamilton.

That allows graduates to immediately work in any plants using those platforms, while ensuring Mohawk is always meeting rapidly evolving standards of industry, says Miltenburg.

“At one time, we had years to make shifts” said Santi. “It’s now sometimes happening in months.”

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Hamilton has a key role to play in the Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster, a network in Southern Ontario that is one of nine shortlisted Supercluster proposals across Canada.

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Transforming Tomorrow Through Canada’s Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster

he Ambitious City is a 170-year old Hamilton moniker that stands true today – Hamilton is a vibrant, dynamic, growing and sustainable community.

The city has had a lot of handles over the years: Lunch-Bucket Town, The Birmingham of Canada, Electric City, Tiger Town, and more recently, The Hammer, City of Waterfalls and Music City. Hamilton is none of these, yet all of these.

It’s tempting to pursue one label, one industry…the silver bullet. There is no silver bullet and a label offers only one dimension of a community. Perhaps for Hamilton, the most prevalent is “Steeltown.”

But it’s never been just about steel.

It’s about a depth and breadth in manufacturing that was the envy of other economies from the second half of the 19th century to the late 20th century.

Hamilton was a model of the mass production economy.

What happened to the economic foundation of that mass production economy? The easy narrative is: “The factory lines stopped rolling. They packed up and left behind a city in significant economic decline.”

There’s no denying manufacturing across Canada has changed dramatically.

Many manufacturers left – taking predominantly labour jobs to lower-cost jurisdictions in the southern USA or Mexico. Hamilton experienced the same.

Although at the bottom of a cycle, it also faced an opportunity for renewed growth in a maturing economy.

ArcelorMittal Dofasco, long a central pillar in the city’s manufacturing economy, made the shift to higher value customer-centric solutions in steel to combat this threat and seize an opportunity. The company took its

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seat on a technology train gathering significant speed towards a turning century.

Brute force no longer drives manufacturing, technology does.

Today’s manufacturing is rooted in the information age economy, driven by the advances in data, automation and robotics. The digitization of industry is here and has companies combining advanced connectivity, data analytics, cloud computing, sensors, intelligent algorithms and deep machine learning to transform their business.

There is a long way to go, but Canadian manufacturers like ArcelorMittal Dofasco, the country’s largest flat roll steel producer, are on the curve. There are also many questions to answer including how to continuously reduce environmental impact of industry including rapidly and significantly decreasing GHG emissions. What will future manufacturing look like? It won’t look the same inside or out, but making things will continue to be an economic engine.

Here lies Hamilton’s continued opportunity.

Hamilton has been on the rise for some time. The Conference Board of Canada consistently ranks Hamilton as the most diverse economy in the country.

Right now, industrial manufacturing within Hamilton represents about $12 Billion annual effect or the equivalent of 4 per cent of Ontario’s GDP. Although Hamilton has an incredible breadth and depth of advanced manufacturing, a significant portion of that is small and medium size enterprises.

The opportunity is to scale these businesses up.

Enter the Government of Canada’s $950 million supercluster strategy designed to focus business, research, and government leaders on key sectors where Canada can drive innovation and remain internationally competitive.

The Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster is a network in Southern Ontario that was announced as one of nine shortlisted Supercluster proposals across the country. The final Superclusters will be announced in 2018.

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“ The Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster is a network in Southern Ontario that was announced as one of nine shortlisted Supercluster proposals across the country.

Hamilton has a key role to play in the Supercluster which would be a network of service oriented solution providers that will help those 1,000 small and medium manufacturers adopt the technology that will grow them into 1,000 people or more organizations.

The Supercluster would leverage and connect our significant research assets, including universities, national labs and private sector organizations and create an interface that brings together technology providers and manufacturers to help them with just that, creating a significant ripple effect for the economy and our communities.

Large manufacturers bring significant impact to host communities. Consider ArcelorMittal Dofasco. Its 100-plus grades of made in Hamilton steel are transforming the design, performance and sustainability of autos as well as creating stronger, safer and more sustainable buildings, innovative new packaging as well as supporting emerging technologies in the tubular energy market.

Dofasco produces 4.5 million tons of steel for use across Canada, in the USA and in Mexico and its raw materials and supplies used in its processes come from all over North America. These comings and goings utilize truck, rail, vessel and barge and are a significant boon to the transportation and logistics industries in the community. The company has an annual spend of nearly $3 billion each year, most which is local to the Hamilton area. That includes everything from wages to contracting and raw materials to safety equipment.

Also critical are the indirect jobs manufacturers create. ArcelorMittal

Dofasco employs 5,000 directly, but also creates an additional 20,000 jobs related to its business. These jobs are a diverse set of skills and disciplines from operations, to professional, technical, skilled trades and service based positions.

This is the connectivity and impact that Hamilton is having through just one large manufacturer.

The Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster would provide the 1,000 small and medium size manufacturers in Hamilton an opportunity to rapidly adopt technology to grow and have a similar impact. These businesses need counsel and solutions to make it happen and the Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster is the missing infrastructure to help them.

Hamilton has the foundation of existing and proven businesses that will be central to Supercluster success. It is the Ambitious City that is well-positioned for continued growth anchored in making things.

ArcelorMittal Dofasco is Transforming Hamilton Large manufacturers bring significant impact to host communities. Consider ArcelorMittal Dofasco. Its 100-plus grades of made in Hamilton steel are transforming the design, performance and sustainability of autos as well as creating stronger, safer and more sustainable buildings, innovative new packaging as well as supporting emerging technologies in the tubular energy market.

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Manufacturing built Hamilton but it’s playing a critical role in its present and future, too.

Hamilton Develops and Sustains “W World-Class Advanced Manufacturing Firms

e have a proud manufacturing heritage that we want to preserve and grow. Many cities and countries no longer make anything at all, but manufacturing is such a critical generator of wealth,” said Glen Norton, Hamilton’s director of economic development.

“Manufacturing is foundational to what Hamilton is,” said Judy Travis, executive director of Workforce Planning Hamilton.

“We can’t lose sight that it is the bedrock of our community.”

The city is particularly strong in metal fabrication and an increasingly important sector is food and beverage manufacturing. Important local employers include ArcelorMittal Dofasco, National Steel Car, Nucor, Canada Bread and Maple Leaf Foods.

Hamilton is seeing significant growth in employment in advanced manufacturing, thanks largely due to the expansion of

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Labourers in processing, manufacturing and utilities

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Construction millwrights and industrial mechanics

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Machinists and machining & tooling inspectors

These are the popular job postings from June 2016-2017 for the Hamilton area.

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local companies, said Norton. High real estate prices and ever-growing gridlock in the Toronto area are also turning many eyes to Hamilton, including foreign companies that are attracted by Canada’s stable political environment.

Hamilton has tremendous locational advantages and “unparalleled” transportation, says Norton. It is just 45 minutes to both the U.S. border and Toronto, and Hamilton is home to one of the country’s busiest cargo airports with 24-hour operations, two rail lines, and the busiest port on the Canadian side of the Great Lakes.

It also has Mohawk College, the largest trainer of apprentices in Canada.

The recent Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Taskforce focused on how to address a significant skilled trades shortage that is affecting manufacturing employers, said Travis. The challenge is to showcase the huge opportunities in clean, bright advanced manufacturing companies to the next generation of workers.

“Traditional manufacturing did not survive but what is thriving is hightech, highly-automated advanced manufacturing that needs people with advanced skills.”

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All Other Sub-Sectors 22%

Average Annual Wage

$54,615 There are many jobs in advanced manufacturing that require different skills and education.

A general labourer can make between $30,000-$40,000, while supervisors can make around $80,000-$100,000.

Primary Metal Manufacturing 33%

Machinery Manufacturing 7%

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13% Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

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Top Skills Needed in Advanced Manufacturing Source: Talent Neuron

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There are many people in advanced manu­ facturing with a trades background.

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Where are the advanced manufacturing jobs?

In Hamilton, there are 5 major employers with over 500 employees. There are around 138 employers with 1-4 employees.

Most employers focus on fabricated metal product manufacturing.

Source: Canadian Business Counts Data

Advanced Manufacturing in Hamilton Hamilton’s advanced manufacturing sector contributes an estimated $12 billion dollars to the provincial economy. Industrial manufacturing has been the driving force of Hamilton’s local economy for more than a century.

To learn more about manufacturing in Hamilton, visit investinhamilton.ca and workforceplanninghamilton.ca

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LiUNA’s Two 30-Storey Tower Project to Accelerate the Transformation of Downtown A new project by the Labourers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) will accelerate an ongoing transformation of Hamilton’s downtown core, including its beacon, the Gore Park district.

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he newly announced project proposes two 30-storey towers on the site of a now-demolished bingo hall which takes up the east side of Hughson Street North, between King Street East and King William. The towers will sit on five-storey podiums that will blend with the existing street walls and bring about 20,000 square feet of retail space to the streets.

Plans call for one tower to offer condo units, with the other offering rentals.

One tower will front King Street and

the other will open on to King William, both critical corridors in Hamilton’s core.

Combined, they will comprise 529 units.

“There is great demand on the residential side because people are discovering what many of us already know: Hamilton is a great city to live in and a wonderful place to raise your family,” said Joseph Mancinelli, LiUNA International vice-president and the regional manager for Central and Eastern Canada.

The site is a special one, he says. It was home to the Kresge five and dime store from 1930 to 1994 and overlooks Gore Park, Hamilton’s downtown civic square.

The park – which features a Victorian fountain, cenotaph and statues of Sir John A. MacDonald and Queen Victoria – is in the midst of a multiyear redevelopment to make it more pedestrian oriented.

“I can just picture what 10 years down the road will bring to that part of the

city. It will have a vibrancy it hasn’t had in many decades,” Mancinelli said.

“Between now and 2025, the city is going to explode.”

The $300-million project is the latest venture by the Labourers’ Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada and project managers the Hi-Rise Group and consultants UrbanSolutions.

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The project is steps away from the restoration of the former Royal Connaught hotel into a three-phase condo development and a number of adaptive reuse projects by Core Urban Inc. It’s also just blocks away from LiUNA’s 21-storey William Thomas Residence, a student housing tower on James Street North.

LiUNA removed and stored its historic stone façade prior to demolition of the building. The stone will be carefully reassembled on the new building.

Challenging historic projects are nothing new for LiUNA. It restored what was once a long-abandoned train station and turned it into a thriving events centre at Liuna Station and then took the decaying Lister building – Canada’s oldest indoor mall – and filled it with office and retail uses.

“We want to maintain the nostalgia,” said Mancinelli, who grew up in Hamilton. “We have attached our brand to nostalgia and that is worth a lot. These are legacies that will last generations.”

LiUNA’s real estate portfolio in Hamilton also includes a Stoney Creek banquet centre LiUNA Gardens, affordable housing complexes, two seniors buildings and its office in a Hughson Street South building, constructed in the 1860s as one of Canada’s first telephone exchanges.

The symbols and results of its progress are accruing in Hamilton and LiUNA is proud to be involved in a number of them, says Mancinelli.

“Success is contagious. The domino effect is now moving rapidly.”

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Major construction is expected to begin in 2019 with the LRT in service by 2024.

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Connecting Hamilton to the Greater Toronto Area and Niagara Region In June 2016, the Province of Ontario announced plans to expand GO Transit service year-round to Niagara Falls.

This planned work will bring new and improved transportation options to customers in Hamilton and Stoney Creek. The plan includes upgrading existing VIA Rail stations at St. Catharines and Niagara Falls, as well as building two new stations: Grimsby GO Station at Casablanca Boulevard, and Confederation GO Station at Centennial Parkway in Stoney Creek.

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At Confederation GO, Metrolinx is building a brand new station building, with parking, a second rail platform with a canopy shelter from the elements, and a bus loop with heated shelter. There is also a pedestrian tunnel to provide safe and convenient access to both sides of the transit corridor, as well as elevators that will make the station more accessible for families and people with disabilities.

Year-round, two-way GO train service to Confederation is targeted for the end of 2019, Grimby by 2021, and St. Catharines and Niagara Falls by 2023.

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Hamilton Earns a Reputation as a Prime Spot for Events and Conferences Vrancor Group has invested over $250 million in the revitalization of downtown Hamilton, built two new hotels and revamped a third, all in a matter of two blocks in just five years, and says it’s committed to further development in a city of “unlimited potential.”

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ncreased hotel capacity, a range of quality venues and attractions, and a “buzz” about the city are helping to significantly boost the number of events and conferences coming to Hamilton.

“Hamilton has earned a tremendous reputation as a host city and has a large, loyal following of meetings and conventions that keep returning,” said Karen McQuade, regional director of sales and marketing for Vrancor Hospitality. “Hamilton offers a convenient, easily accessible destination that guests love. But it’s the very

authentic guest experience that keeps groups coming back.”

Vrancor Group owns 19 hotels in Ontario and has its headquarters in Hamilton. Its portfolio includes Sheraton Hamilton, which was fully renovated in 2013.

That same year,Vrancor built and opened Staybridge Suites Hamilton Downtown. It then earned the prestigious Developer of the Year award from Hilton Worldwide for its Homewood Suites by Hilton Hamilton, which opened in 2014.

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“ Hamilton offers a convenient, easily accessible destination that guests love. But it’s the very authentic guest experience that keeps groups coming back.”

Hamilton now has more than 1,600 first-class hotel rooms spread across the city, says Carrie Brooks-Joiner, Manager of Tourism and Events for Tourism Hamilton. Offerings include everything from historic boutique inns to charming bed and breakfasts to internationally recognized hotel chains.

Plans are in motion for several new hotels, including one at McMaster Innovation Park.

Hamilton’s hotel occupancy has grown close to 6 per cent since 2015.

Increased hotel capacity enables the city to host large conventions and events, such as the JUNO Awards, the Canadian Country Music Week, the Tall Ships Regatta, the North American Indigenous Games, the Pan Am Games, American Public Gardens Association, and numerous top-billed concerts including Paul McCartney, Elton John, Tragically Hip and Garth Brooks.

Such events build on large, homegrown happenings in Hamilton, such as Around the Bay Road Race, Supercrawl, and Festival of Friends.

Visitors are excited to explore numerous attractions, including local waterfalls, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Royal Botanical Gardens, and the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum.

Hamilton is well known for hospitality and offers a long list of advantages, says Brooks-Joiner.

“There is so much we offer compared to other destinations in Ontario and Canada. Hamilton is a very real city. We have a very positive buzz about the city and its vitality. People want to be here.”

Midway between Toronto and Niagara Falls, Hamilton offers great highways,

Homewood Hamilton Meeting Room GO access, an expanded airport and a highly walkable downtown, says BrooksJoiner. In just minutes, you can be at the waterfront, hiking on the Niagara Escarpment or exploring fascinating heritage and architecture.

“We look at tourism as being the front door to economic development for the city. When we attract someone as a leisure or business tourist, they are excited by the experience and choices that the city has to offer.”

That includes venue options that range from funky adapted industrial spaces to modern, high quality hotels and banquet centres, says Brooks-Joiner.

The city boasts a large downtown convention centre and arena, and a new outdoor stadium at Tim Hortons Field.

A five-year tourism strategy focuses on attracting more sporting events, building on Hamilton’s global strength in the medical and education sectors, and capitalizing on the city’s emergence as an arts, culture and culinary powerhouse.

Plans are underway to coalesce Hamilton’s music scene into a Music City identity and McQuade says cooperation between Hamilton, Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo to create a regional advanced manufacturing supercluster will drive new business.

With the future looking bright on so many fronts,Vrancor will absolutely be building more hotels in its hometown, says McQuade.

“We believe in Hamilton. It’s a great city with unlimited potential.”

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Expect the Unexpected at Jackson Square

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amilton’s Jackson Square is ready for a second look. The downtown shopping mall and its adjoining commercial office towers – 100 King Street West, 120 King Street West, One James Street North, and the Robert Thomson Building – was built as an ambitious revitalization project in the early 1970s.

The development was led by the Real Group of Companies, a joint venture between Yale Properties of Montreal and Manulife Financial, and was named for former Hamilton Mayor Lloyd Jackson.

Real Properties has managed the complex since the beginning, from the much-anticipated grand opening in 1972, through the economic challenges of the late 1980s, to the bustling retail and commercial hub it is today.

From the street, Jackson Square looks like any mid-century multi-use complex.

But step inside, and you’ll soon discover that it offers every modern amenity along with a few pleasant surprises.

“It’s the space itself that makes us unique,” says Jocelyne Mainville, leasing manager for the Real Group of Companies.

The 390,000-sf Jackson Square mall is 93 per cent leased. It offers everything an office user might need.

The mix includes Nations Fresh Foods supermarket, Goodlife Fitness, a post office and full-service banks, as well as licensed restaurants, food kiosks, retail shops, downtown Hamilton’s only LCBO, and the newly-renovated Landmark Cinemas.

The adjoining Jackson Square office towers provide a total of 1.1 million sf of commercial space. Current tenants include three levels of government, professional services, and inbound call centres. Units range from 398 sf to 52,000 sf contiguous over three floors.

“The floor-plates are column-free,” Mainville notes. That makes the space very efficient when it comes to office design, she explains, enabling tenants to

create a tailor-made work environment – whether it’s a traditional office layout or a funky, open-concept loft.

Commercial tenants may use the Jackson Square Conference Centre and also enjoy dedicated, high-speed connectivity, modernized elevators, upgraded common areas and washrooms – and some of the best panoramic views in the city.

They also have access to the mall’s rooftop courtyard, which spans four city blocks. “We call it The Plaza,” says Mainville. “It’s a green space right in the heart of the city.”

The urban oasis hosts lunch-hour concerts and office BBQs, providing a welcome break from the office routine.

“It’s something you won’t find anywhere else,” Mainville says.

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Stryker’s employees were the key reason its Canada business decided to build its new $100-million headquarters in Hamilton.

Stryker Expands and Invests in Hamilton

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Stryker Canada recently announced the location for their new 120,000-square-foot corporate head office. At groundbreaking ceremony (from left to right), Ken Rule – Director of Operations, Scott MacNair – President, Stryker Canada, John Steinberg – National Logistics Manager

he new 120,000-square-foot facility will bring three existing locations under one roof to manage distribution, logistics, finance, legal and compliance, regulatory affairs, marketing and human resources, said Scott MacNair, president of Stryker Canada.

“We have a long history of delivering healthcare and being an employer of choice in the Hamilton and Niagara region,” said MacNair. “With proximity to Pearson, Hamilton airport, the U.S. border and GTA highways, it’s a good central location for us.”

Stryker Canada was bursting at the seams after strong organic growth and a series of acquisitions. Though it considered other municipalities, MacNair says the company was

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“They give a lot to Stryker and we wanted to avoid uprooting their personal lives but also give them a state-of-the-art building,” he added.

The new facility will feature an open concept, with plenty of areas for collaboration, a fitness and wellness area and a showroom to showcase Stryker’s medical technology to customers.

Stryker is a Fortune 300 based in Michigan with worldwide sales of more than $11 billion and 33,000 employees.

The global medical technology company offers innovative products and services in orthopaedics, medical and surgical, neurotechnology and spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes.

“We have a broad and diverse product portfolio. Our mission is that we are driven to make healthcare better,” said MacNair.

Stryker Canada is also a leading employer, being named a Great Place to Work six consecutive years, a Top 100 Employer for four straight years and a Top Employer for Young People.

The new headquarters is now under construction on the east side of Highway 6 north of Highway 5 in the new 95acre iConnect Business Park. It will be a catalyst for future development, says Norm Schleehahn, manager of business development for the City.

“Stryker’s project is really exciting because it’s leading to the development of another 60 acres. So more shovelready land is coming on stream because of it,” said Schleehahn.

The plan of subdivision had not been approved when the Stryker Canada opportunity came up.

“The City planning staff embraced the challenge and worked tirelessly with Stryker to meet the company’s timelines,” said Schleehahn.

City staff allowed business park developer Krpan Management Group to pursue a plan of subdivision and site plan agreement at the same time to speed up the process.

Steve Malovic, chief operating officer of Krpan, says Stryker needed to ensure its timelines were possible with the time needed to develop a greenfield site.

“We had extensive meetings with the City so we felt confident with this collaboration,” said Malovic.

“The City’s partnership approach was evident,” said MacNair, and a big reason the company decided to stay in Flamborough.

MacNair says Stryker both supports and benefits from the life sciences cluster and research and development coming out of McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences.

“Hamilton is an innovative health and technology community. We will continue to grow as a business, so being part of a growing community is a perfect fit.”

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Plenty of Employment and Business Park Lands Ready to Go Private developers are leading the way when it comes to bringing investment to Hamilton’s employment lands and business parks.

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he City of Hamilton owns a total of about 40 acres of developable employment land. It used to own much more but prefers to let the private sector take the lead, says Guy Paparella, the City’s director, industrial parks and airport development.

Across the city, there are almost 700 acres of “shovel ready” employment land available.

“Private developers are taking the lead. When times are slow, the city has to pick up more but the private market sees less risk and more opportunity in Hamilton now. The City can spend on infrastructure rather than marketing and competing with the private sector. They do investment development best.”

While the private sector has the advantage of speed and agility, development has to be a team approach, says Steve Malovic, chief operating officer of Krpan Management Group, a significant landholder in Waterdown.

“We can’t do it without the City but the City can’t do it without us.”

“Shovel ready” land – a site with suitable Official Plan designation, zoning, and municipal servicing/ utility infrastructure in place – allows a municipality to be immediately responsive to investment opportunities.

Hamilton is making road and other infrastructure improvements that are leading to more shovel-ready lands in areas of Hamilton where there is a lot of demand, says Paparella. Those areas are the Red Hill area of the east Mountain, the industrialized harbour, the airport district, and Waterdown.

“As the City increasingly spends money on infrastructure this allows developers to see that it is a good time

to make their own investments,” said Norm Schleehahn, manager of business development for the City.

Stryker Canada’s $100-million investment for a new headquarters in the new 95-acre iConnect Business Park in Flamborough will be a catalyst for further development, says Schleehahn. It broke ground in September.

The idea is to tie the employment lands into an existing development of retail, restaurants and grocery amenities.

Malovic is hearing from hotel chains and other commercial operators interested in locating in iConnect.

“We haven’t started marketing it yet but we put up a billboard for the (Stryker) ground-breaking and we are getting calls on that alone.”

Malovic says the strong residential market in Hamilton, along with its

quality of life and affordability, will only drive more employers to arrive, too.

“People don’t want to trek into the GTA to work. The City’s open for business approach means there is great potential here. Once a company comes here, they will stay. Stryker is a great example of that.”

Movengo Corporation is moving ahead with servicing a section of Twenty Road for Nebo Trails, a 40-acre parcel of land in the Red Hill South Business Park on Hamilton’s east Mountain. It’s also developing a commercial property in Winona.

“We’ve had sales offers before shovels were in the ground in both locations,” said Aaron Collina, president of Movengo.

A major shift has happened in the city, says Collina.

“When we first acquired the land in Winona about four years ago, the Triple A players weren’t interested. Now, our phone rings all the time.”

He expects that to only accelerate, saying land in downtown Toronto is going for $125 million an acre, versus $9 million in downtown Hamilton.

Nebo Trails will go on the market next spring. Hamilton’s geographic and transportation advantages – including access to huge markets and provincial highways, the port, the airport – are obvious to potential investors, says Collina.

“It’s all finally happening,” said the Hamilton native. “This is a great opportunity for our kids and our kids’ kids. We are welcoming new people and new investment.”

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