Ontario is home to thousands of innovative manufacturers and partner organizations - and the Trillium Network wants to tell their stories. Since 2015, the Trillium Network staff have profiled over 150 Ontario manufacturers and partner organizations to raise awareness of their capabilities, their role in supporting Ontario's economy, the opportunities that are in front of them, the challenges that they face, and the relationships they have built. Take a look at what we've learned - you will be fascinated by their stories.

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MacLean Engineering & Marketing

For Don MacLean, the founder of the world’s largest Canadian-owned mining equipment manufacturer, marketing was never just about advertising. It was about engineering innovative products that create their own markets.

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Ionic Technology Group

Five years of research and development enabled Sudbury’s Ionic Technology Group to launch SafeBox, a product that de-energizes and locks out equipment in a matter of seconds. Today, SafeBox is emerging as the global standard for worker safety in mining and base metal refining.

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NEXE Innovations

When Vancouver-based NEXE Innovations needed to scale up its compostable coffee pod production, the company sought a location close to large markets with deep manufacturing expertise, an experienced workforce, and a supportive local government. NEXE Innovations found all of this and more in Windsor, where it opened its new vertically integrated production facility in 2022.

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Mitrex

When Danial Hadizadeh set out to combine solar panels and building cladding into a single product, he reached back to his teenage years and of all things, Leonardo da Vinci's ornithopter drawings.

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AIS Technologies Group

For AIS Technologies Group, understanding its customers’ challenges is a common starting point for innovation.

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Reko International Group

On the shop floor of Reko International, two monumental machining centres stand silent witness to the company’s legacy, resilience, and innovation.

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