Top 10 Reasons to Locate in the Ontario East Wood Centre & Eco-Industrial Park 1. A responsible choice: environmentally sound business practices in a supportive, like-minded business community 2. A stable place for business: a widely shared vision that includes prosperous enterprise 3. Land to suit: available light/medium industrial land in lots of varying sizes 4. A firm business footing: the support of mentoring entrepreneurs and researchers whose projects are relevant to business 5. Operating cost savings: shared support system and service costs 6. Easy market access: superb road, rail and sea routes to national and international markets 7. Plentiful raw materials: more than 1-million cubic metres of wood, acess to certified forests 8. Family-oriented communities: reasonable housing prices, life at a rural pace and short drives to major cities in Ontario and Québec 9. Infrastructure in place: from water and wastewater infrastructure to roads, from supportive local companies to friendly local government 10.Recreation options: a wide range of land and water recreation options in a land with a rich culture and heritage
Imagine an environmentally attuned complex designed for research, development and demonstration and the manufacture of value-added wood products destined for domestic and international markets.
If your company is involved in producing value-added wood products, discover the opportunities at the Ontario East Wood Centre & EcoIndustrial Park. Call Russell Trivett at 1-866-848-9099, today—and look over our web site, www.WoodCentre.ca
Township of Edwardsburgh/Cardinal 18 Centre Street, P.O. Box 129, Spencerville, ON K0E 1X0 Tel: 613-658-3055 or 1-866-848-9099 Email: info@woodcentre.ca
www.WoodCentre.ca
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Introducing the Ontario East Wood Centre
A Profitable Union of Industry, Research, Government
Environmental insight The Ontario East Wood Centre has been designed to help businesses employ environmentally and economically sound practices as they manufacture value-added wood products. Businesses will work together here, to develop mutually beneficial processes and products with the support of research and government organizations.
The opportunity A company involved in manufacturing value-added wood products will locate here for good reasons: • A stable business environment, thanks to the strength of a shared guiding vision and an integrated research focus
Value-added wood products Processing makes wood products about six times as valuable, on average. Value-added wood products include furniture and boards—and also foods, health products and bio-products. Some 59,000 people work in Ontario’s value-added wood industry.
Mutually beneficial processes, products Wood processing by-products can be used to generate energy. Energy and other wood processing outputs feed biorefining. Biorefining creates materials for use in chemicals, bioplastics, building materials, auto parts and pilot plants. By-products can feed processing and biorefining.
Critical support Supporters of the Ontario East Wood Centre & Eco-Industrial Park concept include: • Eastern Ontario Model Forest • Township of Edwardsburgh/Cardinal • Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources • United Counties of Leeds and Grenville • Port of Prescott
“This is a potent combination in today’s marketplace when people are concerned about the economy, the environment, climate change and our quality of life.” Jim McCready, President, Eastern Ontario Model Forest.
• High-quality, light/medium industrial land in lots of .5 to 10 or more acres, with water and wastewater infrastructure, local machine and welding, and trucking and container facilities • Reduced operating costs, due to shared support systems and services costs, and naturally arising inter-company synergies • Easy access to national and international markets • Adjacent to North America’s largest contiguous mixed hardwood forest • Access to certified forests • Enviable quality-of-life in communities with a culture of their own based on a rich heritage, plus a wide range of recreation and housing options
• Canadian Forest Service • University of Toronto, Faculty of Forestry • Eastern Ontario Development Program
• Convenient access to Toronto, Ottawa and Montréal from the security of a rural setting
• National Research Council Canada
• Support from researchers in government, industry and academic institutions in Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston, Montréal and Syracuse
The location
• Support from mentoring entrepreneurs
The Ontario East Wood Centre & Eco-Industrial Park will run north from County Road 2 on about 50 acres of land within the 370-acre Edwardsburgh/Cardinal Industrial Park, adjacent to the Port of Prescott.
• Nearby established enterprises, including GreenField Ethanol’s Johnstown plant and a development-friendly local government
Top 10 Reasons to Locate in the Ontario East Wood Centre & Eco-Industrial Park 1. A responsible choice: environmentally sound business practices in a supportive, like-minded business community 2. A stable place for business: a widely shared vision that includes prosperous enterprise 3. Land to suit: available light/medium industrial land in lots of varying sizes 4. A firm business footing: the support of mentoring entrepreneurs and researchers whose projects are relevant to business 5. Operating cost savings: shared support system and service costs 6. Easy market access: superb road, rail and sea routes to national and international markets 7. Plentiful raw materials: more than 1-million cubic metres of wood, acess to certified forests 8. Family-oriented communities: reasonable housing prices, life at a rural pace and short drives to major cities in Ontario and Québec 9. Infrastructure in place: from water and wastewater infrastructure to roads, from supportive local companies to friendly local government 10.Recreation options: a wide range of land and water recreation options in a land with a rich culture and heritage
Imagine an environmentally attuned complex designed for research, development and demonstration and the manufacture of value-added wood products destined for domestic and international markets.
If your company is involved in producing value-added wood products, discover the opportunities at the Ontario East Wood Centre & EcoIndustrial Park. Call Russell Trivett at 1-866-848-9099, today—and look over our web site, www.WoodCentre.ca
Township of Edwardsburgh/Cardinal 18 Centre Street, P.O. Box 129, Spencerville, ON K0E 1X0 Tel: 613-658-3055 or 1-866-848-9099 Email: info@woodcentre.ca
www.WoodCentre.ca
© 2008 Ontario East Wood Centre & Eco-Industrial Park The content in this brochure is summary in nature and subject to change without notice. All marks are the property of their respective owners.
Call today
www.WoodCentre.ca