Ontario's environmental industry is helping companies and communities around the world respond to the rising demand for environment-related solutions that meet local needs.

With more than 2,600 companies and annual revenues of more than $7 billion, Ontario's industry has a well-deserved reputation for innovative technologies and services across a broad range of sub-sectors, including:

• water and wastewater treatment
• industrial waste treatment
• solid waste management
• air pollution control
• instrumentation and monitoring equipment
• environmental software and consulting services
• site and brownfield remediation
• Energy conservation

Globally competitive

Ontario has grappled with the environmental impacts of more than a century of industrial land use, the harvesting of natural resources and stresses of rapid urbanization. Our industry has developed innovative technologies, products and services to reduce those impacts, restore ecological balance and manage sustainable growth.

Today, Ontario firms are exporting their expertise to solve tough challenges in communities in South America, Asia, Africa and Europe.

An innovative environment drives our industry

Research and testing are essential for the successful development and production of new technologies and products. Ontario companies have become world leaders in a number of specialized areas thanks, in part, to the province's exceptional R&D advantage, which includes leading minds, world-class research centres that know how to work with industry - and one of the best R&D tax credit programs to be found anywhere.

Helping to commercialize breakthroughs is a network of incubators, research parks and technology transfer offices throughout the province. Etech, a division of the Ontario Centres of Excellence Inc., promotes partnerships between industry and research, helping to move discoveries from the lab to the marketplace.

Why Ontario environmental products and services?

• Environmental products and services are big business in Ontario, with annual revenues of more than $7 billion.
• Developing and producing innovative environmental products, systems and services demands highly educated workers, and ours are among the best in the world. Our 44 colleges and universities have thousands of students enrolled in environment-related degree and certificate programs.
• Ontario's $500 million (Cdn) Advanced Manufacturing Investment Strategy promotes innovation by helping companies in areas such as waste management develop and use leading technologies.
• Ontario firms are experienced in international environment regulations.
• Our honesty and reliability in business is recognized by the Economist in a recent survey of 90 countries, which ranked Canada third behind Finland and Sweden.

If you need to source environmental products or services, look to Ontario. We have the skills, technologies and international experience to help you succeed.

Benefit from our experience.

43%

Ontario is home to more than 2,600 innovative environmental firms and accounts for more than 43 per cent of Canada's environmental revenues.

Waterloo Biofilter Systems

Waterloo Biofilter Systems is a leader in residential and commercial-scale sewage treatment. The Rockwood, Ontario-based company uses the low-energy and low-maintenance absorbent trickle-filter technology developed in Ontario. It is compact and cost-effective and is easily scaled up in transportable containers for shipping and export to the US and other countries.

Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin

Established in 1972, Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin (RWDI) has become the leading wind engineering consulting services firm in the world. Through a worldwide network of offices, the Guelph, Ontario-based company provides a complete range of wind engineering, and environmental air quality and noise management services to the building development sector, industry, and government clients located on six continents.

Trojan Technologies

London, Ontario-based Trojan Technologies is a world leader in ultraviolet water treatment solutions in five key markets: municipal drinking water, wastewater disinfection, environmental contaminant treatment, industrial/commercial water treatment and consumer water purification systems. Today, there are thousands of Trojan systems in communities all over the world, treating over 21 billion gallons of water a day.

SENES Consultants

From its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario consulting firm SENES Consultants is "taking Environmental Excellence Worldwide". SENES offers policy development and review, technical assessments, delivery of specialized and expert advice, peer reviews, and all levels of project management and implementation and has conducted over 5,000 projects in 50 countries.

GreenWare Environmental Systems

GreenWare Environmental Systems of Toronto, Ontario, is a leading provider of environmental software that enables corporations and governments worldwide to track and manage regulatory, EMS (environment management system), greenhouse gas, auditing and performance data. Greenware's clients come from a range of industries and include: British Petroleum, Dell Computer, Dupont, Epson, Novartis Pharmaceutical, Toshiba International and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Want to know more about Ontario's environmental innovations and expertise?

Ontario Environment Business Directory
www.envirodirectory.on.ca

Ontario Ministry of the Environment
www.ene.gov.on.ca

Earth and Environmental Technologies
www.oce-ontario.org

Ontario Environment Industry Association
www.oneia.ca

Ontario Centre for Environmental Technology Advancement
www.oceta.on.ca

Environment Canada
www.ec.gc.ca

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