Our Founding Members

Jones Packaging Inc.

Organization Type: Industry

Jones is an integrated packaging solutions provider for highly regulated industries. For more than 130 years, our culture of innovation leadership has driven many “market firsts” for consumers, particularly in the field of medication management. Most recently, we have taken on a Tier 1 partnership role in the National Research Council’s Printable Electronics Consortium focused on the development of materials and manufacturing processes to create smart packaging that will help patients manage their complex medication regimes.

INO – Institut National d’Optique

Organization Type: R&D Organization

INO is a technological design and development firm for optic and photonic solutions for the industry. INO offers solutions designed to make businesses more competitive and shares the risks associated with technology development.

INO is involved in optics and photonics applied to printable electronics.

Xerox Research Centre of Canada

Organization Type: R&D Organization

XRCC is Canada’s leading materials research centre, home to a world-class team of scientists and engineers with broad expertise in materials chemistry, formulation design, prototyping, testing, and chemical process engineering. The centre delivers real-world solutions for Xerox and external customers in areas such as electronic materials, sustainable chemical processes, coatings, and security/authentication, as well as novel technologies for the printing, electronics, and manufacturing industries.

Tom Ewart

Organization Type: Individual

Bank of Canada

Organization Type: Government

The Bank of Canada is the nation’s central bank. The Bank’s four main areas of responsibility are:
• Monetary policy: The Bank influences the supply of money circulating in the economy, using its monetary policy framework to keep inflation low and stable.
• Financial system: The Bank promotes safe, sound and efficient financial systems, within Canada and internationally, and conducts transactions in financial markets in support of these objectives.
• Currency: The Bank designs, issues and distributes Canada’s bank notes.
• Funds Management: The Bank is the “fiscal agent” for the Government of Canada, managing its public debt programs and foreign exchange reserves.

Raymor Industries Inc.

Organization Type: Industry

Raymor’s mission is to provide carbon-based materials that make the difference for electrical conductivity applications and the next generation of carbon-based electronics. It strives to provide high batch-to-batch consistency and detailed characterization such that your ideas can be converted rapidly from the R&D stage to commercial production. NanoIntegris is well-known for the high-purity of its nanotube products, and especially its 99% pure semiconducting IsoNanotubes-S SWCNT, as shown by over 300 peer-reviewed publications produced using NanoIntegris materials. In parallel, Nanotech provides large quantities of high-purity SWCNT at low cost for industrial applications such as transparent conductive films, solutions, and inks.

CSA Group

Organization Type: Standards

Every day, CSA Group works with businesses, organizations and code authorities all around the world to help create a safer, more sustainable world for people and for business. From testing and certifying your products today for safety and performance requirements, to developing leading-edge, consensus-based standards to support tomorrow’s technology, CSA Group develops solutions that strive to promote safety to industry and society. Manufacturers, retailers, business, academia, consumers and government organizations alike rely on our worldwide network to assist in their pursuit of innovative solutions for their evolving safety, reliability and sustainability needs.

EPIC Semiconductors Inc.

Organization Type: Industry

Microcontrollers join wearable computing. Overcoming the challenge of powering and communicating with wearable devices enhances the development of new product categories and ideas. By designing ultra-low power devices and an energy harvesting system, EPIC Semiconductors has entered these fast growing and profitable markets with the revolutionary concept of nanoCloudProcessing. The “nanoCloudProcessor” (nCP), a dust grain size device, which powers itself, senses and communicates to a portable reader (e.g. mobile devices). EPIC licenses its technology to a network of partners in several markets, including computing, smartphones, health and wellness, as well as sophisticated medical devices and consumer products.

Laval University

Organization Type: R&D Organization

Since its founding, Université Laval has been training, equipping, and guiding the decision makers who’ve grappled with the major issues of society. Through the advancement and sharing of knowledge, its culture of excellence, and its global outlook, Université Laval’s academic community contributes to the development and international profile of its province. Still today, with the world at a crossroads, Université Laval plays a bigger role than ever in Québec City and on the national and international scene, both as a catalyst for change and a visionary institution where knowledge, curiosity, and innovation are part of everyday life.

NovaCentrix

Organization Type: Industry

NovaCentrix, is leading product innovator in printable electronics (PE) manufacturing. It develops, patents, and commercializes new technologies in PE, nanoparticle manufacturing, pulsed power equipment and related fields. NovaCentrix is known for its PulseForge line of tools (used to dry, sinter or anneal thin-film materials on substrates) and its Metalon conductive inks.

Keystep Growth & Finance

Organization Type: Industry

Keystep Growth & Finance helps emerging and established high tech product and service companies achieve success that is sustainable over the long term. In these companies there is often an abundance of technical managers and executives who are close to the technology, but lack the world-class business, sales and marketing expertise that is crucial to success. This is what Keystep brings to the table.

FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc

Organization Type: Industry

FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc., the world’s premier provider of piezoelectric inkjet printheads and systems, has more than 31 years of experience in advancing the performance of drop-on-demand dispensing devices and applications for the printed electronics industry. Inkjet printing, based on FUJIFILM Dimatix’s MEMS technology, allows creation of products like solar cells, displays, electronics, RFID antennas, smart tags, DNA arrays, smart packaging, and wearable electronics. The Dimatix Materials Printer DMP-2831, a low-cost, cartridge-based piezoelectric inkjet printing system that enables direct deposition of functional fluids, has been accepted as the industry standard for the accelerated development of inkjet solutions in electronics, displays, life sciences, photovoltaics, and other industries.

University of Alberta

Organization Type: Academia

The University of Alberta’s daring and innovative spirit inspires faculty and students to advance knowledge through research, seek innovation in teaching and learning, and find new ways to serve the people of Alberta, the nation, and the world. UAlberta has had the vision to be one of the world’s great universities for the public good since its inception. This university is dedicated to the promise made by founding president Henry Marshall Tory that “… knowledge shall not be the concern of scholars alone. The uplifting of the whole people shall be its final goal.”

ArjoWiggins Creative Papers

Organization Type: Industry

A leading manufacturer of creative and technical paper, Arjowiggins has operations in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia. Through a strategy of constant innovation, the group provides clients with high added-value environmentally-friendly products. Far from being a traditional paper manufacturer, Arjowiggins is a company with a focus on cutting-edge technology to provide its clients with the pioneering solutions best suited to their specific needs. Arjowiggins has been at the forefront of the move towards environmentally-friendly paper and paper incorporating security requirements.

MW Canada

Organization Type: Industry

MW Canada is a leading manufacturer of window coverings and specialty materials. A vertically integrated textile mill, MW Canada is able to shift gears quickly in sampling and production. New fabrics are created on a CAD system and sampled in the weaveroom utilizing a variety of warp and weft yarns on a wide range of looms. Depending on customer needs, dry and wet textile processing can produce standard or unique end products. The dyehouse creates a wide colour range of yarns and piece dyed goods.

Quebec Center for Functional Materials (CQMF)

Organization Type: R&D Organization

CQMF is a research center focused on the development of functional materials. These materials, also known as smart materials, possess the ability to adapt and transform in response to chemical, physical or biological stimuli. Members of the center are working towards the development of advanced materials for biomedical, environmental and energy applications.