When physical pain occurs—whether from an injury, surgery, or the ravages of cancer—finding the right product to alleviate symptoms can be a matter of trial and error, and is often fraught with side effects including addiction and overdose. WEX Pharmaceuticals Inc., a late-stage drug development company based in Vancouver, BC, is dedicated to reducing those threats through research, development, and manufacture of Halneuron®, a new non-opioid analgesic considered to be a breakthrough in pain-management technology.
Allison Dempsey
Response Biomedical Corp.
Accurate Diagnostics – When Every Minute Counts
Response Biomedical Corp. (Response) is a market leader in comprehensive acute care testing. It is a well-established, thriving Canadian company with full operations—including all manufacturing—based in Vancouver, B.C. Response competes in the in-vitro Diagnostic (“IVD”) market globally and its RAMP system is a fast diagnostics platform offering lab-quality performance in acute care settings.
Clover Tool Manufacturing Limited
The Tools of Success – Superior Products and a Stellar Work Environment
Since its founding in 1979 as a tool and die company housed in a 2,000-square-foot shop with 10 employees, Clover Tool Manufacturing has expanded steadily, becoming a producer of completed and semi-finished components and moving to a 14,000-square-foot facility employing 30 people in Vaughan, Ontario in 1989.
bioLytical Laboratories
Hands-On Healthcare
Early illness detection is a precious tool for maintaining health and making rapid, well-informed health decisions. And it’s something bioLytical Laboratories Inc. has honed via its leading-edge solutions for infectious illness diagnosis, the first step in connecting patients with proper care and treatment and even saving their lives.
Torvan Medical
Creating and Collaborating Ahead of the Curve
A leading company in the design and production of products for medical and scientific sectors, Torvan Medical employs exemplary craftsmanship with a focus on creating and marketing cutting-edge products for infection control and preventing cross-contamination. Whether it’s ergonomic decontamination devices such as sinks, height-adjustable workstations, or endoscopic cabinets, Torvan continually stays ahead of the curve.
ESBE Scientific
Innovation, Sustainability, and Customer Care
Since its founding in 1968 as a clinical laboratory supplies distributor for the Southern Ontario market, ESBE Scientific has expanded steadily and significantly and is widely known as one of the largest 100 percent Canadian-owned distributors serving the clinical, research, industrial, and biotechnology laboratories.
ARxIUM
Game Changer: Making Medication Dispensing Easier, Faster, Safer
Focused on enhancing safety, productivity, and efficiency by combining category-leading automation solutions, intuitive workflow software, and unsurpassed industry expertise, ARxIUM™ partners with health systems and pharmacies of all types with best-in-class technology and unmatched experience.
iWALKFree
Walk This Way – Taking Injuries and Accidents in Stride
It’s a product you don’t want to need, but sometime, maybe, you’ll be grateful it exists.
Creating Smart Sustainability
Force of Nature
“When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.”
— Cameron Sinclair, Open Architecture Network
ASI, a Division of Thermal Technologies
Customer Care in Changing Times
Taking great pride in workmanship is a top priority for ASI, a company with more than 35 years of experience in specialized drying, curing, and cooling solutions for both the U.S. and overseas.
LJ Welding Automation
From Alberta to the World Stage
With cutting-edge industrial facilities that include two buildings with 60,000 square feet of manufacturing and office space each and more than five acres of property, Edmonton, Alberta-based LJ Welding Automation has been providing high-quality welding equipment to the Canadian and international welding and fabrication industry for decades.
The Women Behind Incredible Inventions
Dare, Dream, Discover
There’s a fine line between inventor and innovator, between not only finding a niche that needs filling, but creating the very solution that changes lives for the better. Inventors have the unique ability to think creatively and produce original ideas that have made vast differences for humanity over the years, and even though throughout history some of the most notable inventions to date have been made by women, men have been credited and recognized for their creations much more often.
MARKT-PILOT
Making a Mark with Smart Pricing for Spare Parts
With the goal of providing comprehensive market intelligence for spare parts offerings, MARKT-PILOT has modernized the pricing of replacement parts with the aid of its ground-breaking software, PRICE-RADAR, while fostering sustainable growth in the parts business. By aggregating data from more than 10,000 industrial sources and creating market transparency for each spare part, MARKT-PILOT’s solution can increase an organization’s part revenue by an average of 20 percent after applying a market-based pricing strategy.
EDSI
Where Quality and Capability are Second to None
For more than 25 years, EDSI Inc. has produced essential parts for robotic systems used in painting, sealing, welding, and material handling applications, harnessing its impressive experience and expertise for the development and design of these systems
CoolIT Systems
Game On and Keep Cool – Building a Better, Cooler Computer
Keeping your cool doesn’t only apply to your temperament, especially when it comes to gaming. For CoolIT Systems (CoolIT) it means keeping high-performance desktop computers perfectly cool more efficiently than traditional air-cooling methods are capable of.
Liftow Ltd.
Raising Standards in the Forklift Market – Elevating Everything
As Canada’s top partner for comprehensive Toyota forklift and material handling solutions since 1960, Liftow Ltd. is the largest Toyota forklift dealer in North America. With their partner Toyota, the market leader, Liftow provides premium equipment, rentals, parts, service, training and safety products.
Stereotaxis
The Heart of the Matter: Striving for Safer Surgery
At some point in their lives, everyone is expected to undergo a medical procedure, and knowing the physicians in charge have the best tools at their disposal can go a long way to easing anxiety on the operating table. With the goal of developing and providing cutting-edge surgical robotics that improve minimally invasive endovascular intervention, St. Louis, Missouri-based Stereotaxis Inc. is a pioneering company and leading authority.
Canerector
Holding Steady: Canerector Keeps Business All in the Family
Embracing a strong belief in long-term business growth and continuous improvement, Canerector focuses on expanding rather than selling its acquired companies, cherishing their history, culture, leadership, and knowledge and, through its incentive program and aversion to bureaucracy, promoting an entrepreneurial mindset.
Making Space for Makers
Who’s the Boss?
The last few years of lockdowns have been long and challenging. Isolation and job losses have affected the world. Industries across the board have been forced to adapt and move to remote work or let employees go.
Pack-Smart Inc.
Solving Complex Problems With Smart Solutions
Innovative and performance-driven, Pack-Smart Inc. develops, engineers, and produces high-performance, fully automated modular systems for printing, converting, personalizing, and packaging, as well as industrial and digital automation. The company’s ability to create hardware and software innovations that address difficult engineering, manufacturing, and distribution challenges while attaining the highest speeds, greatest precision, and world-class Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is one of the many keys to its success.
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