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Manufacturing and Materials Sub-Sector Facts

Ontario has been building machinery and systems for more than 150 years.
The province is home to thousands of flourishing advanced technology manufacturers and includes makers of components, assemblies and systems.
Ontario's advanced manufacturing industry encompasses innovative applications of leading-edge computer numeric control (CNC), computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), robotics, automation and visioning systems, as well as advanced methodologies like lean manufacturing.
Ontario is the leader of Canada's manufacturing sector, and has over 397 firms at the leading edge in AMT development.
There are thousands of researchers conducting research in virtually every area of advanced manufacturing and 30 specialized research centres where industry innovations are tested and refined in the Province of Ontario.

Over 130 organizations are currently involved in nanotechnology development in Canada.
Ontario's chemical industry has a global reach - over $14.2 billion in exports.
Material's businesses benefits from Ontario's generous R&D tax incentives.
Ontario brings public sector and industry scientists together to push the boundaries of chemical and bio innovation.

Universities in the Toronto region are at the forefront of this scientific frontier. McMaster University, University of Toronto and University of Waterloo alone produce 25% of the nanotechnology research conducted in Canada.
In 1997, the University of Toronto established Canada's first centre for nanotechnology research, the Centre for Advanced Nanotechnology (CAN).
More than half (157) of Ontario's scientists conducting nanotech-related research are based in the Toronto Region.