Vector Controls and Automation Group (Vector CAG) is an established representative, distributor, service and solution partner for several manufacturers. The company was born on March 6, 2013 from a...
2023
Celebrating a Decade of People-Led Success
Stronger TogetherSamuel Automation Solutions Group
Things are booming at Samuel Automation Solutions Group (Samuel ASG) of Waterloo, Ontario. “We’ve gotten stronger. We have a greater reach and expertise. Being part of a much larger organization...
Smart, Solid, SustainableWhat’s in Store for Energy Storage
With energy storage requirements changing quickly around the world, researchers are continuously looking to create effective, long-lasting, and truly innovative solutions. Everything from grid...
Next-Generation SafetyNew Tech to Support a Safety Mindset
Contact with moving machine parts, slips and falls, chemical burns, falling objects, fatigue, overexertion, and vehicles are just a few causes of workplace injuries. Fortunately, technology and...
Perfecting the Science of Pain ManagementWEX Pharmaceuticals
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...
Accurate Diagnostics – When Every Minute CountsResponse Biomedical Corp.
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...
Improving Drug Discovery OutcomesStressMarq Biosciences Inc.
StressMarq Biosciences Inc. is a boutique firm that develops high-quality bioreagents for pharmaceutical companies and scientific research organizations around the world. Putting these tools in the...
Bringing Attention and Support to Canada’s Tooling IndustryThe Canadian Tooling & Machining Association (CTMA)
The Canadian Tooling & Machining Association (CTMA) is dedicated to supporting the interests and promotion of the trades and industries of its namesake affiliations. It began operations in 1963...
Much Ventured, Much More GainedBlack Controls Company Inc.
Known for its industrial and robotic control systems, Black Controls Company Inc. is a young and dynamic company that provides clients, often those with highly complex demands, with custom...
Living a LegacyElliott Matsuura Canada
Elliott Matsuura Canada Inc., a branch of the global machine tool supplier Matsuura Machinery Corporation, is based in Oakville, Ontario. Its rich history began in 1905 with founder Hugo Frye, a...
World-Class Tooling, World-Class TrainingMax Die Group
With roots going back a century, the Max Die Group designs and builds automotive stamping tools, prototype parts, and low volume production parts, and runs a training centre for young apprentices....
The Tools of Success – Superior Products and a Stellar Work EnvironmentClover Tool Manufacturing Limited
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...
Where Integrity Is a Core ValueIntegrity Tool and Mold Inc.
The world of tooling and molding has, up until comparatively recently, been a world known for being set in its ways—which is, when systems all work along the same lines, not necessarily a bad thing....
Uncompromising Precision, Unrivalled Commitment, Unmatched QualityNominal Machine Tool
In under a decade, Nominal Machine Tool has earned praise from customers that’s usually afforded only to companies that have been in business far longer. Why? “Uncompromising precision, unrivalled...
An Industry StapleRapid Gear
Rapid Gear is a custom gear manufacturer that has led the industry in designing and building individual gears, gear boxes, and special purpose machinery since 1976. Operating from a world-class,...
Reimagining Custom MachiningJancox Metal Products Inc.
After half a century in the machining industry, Jancox Metal Products Inc. remains a trusted partner to well-known names in the North American automotive industry. Based in Mississauga, Ontario,...
Mastering Change in an Industry That Never Stops ChangingNickleson Machine & Tool
90 years ago, cars were topping out at a whopping 65 miles per hour; on average they cost less than a thousand dollars and had something like 95 horses under the hood if you were lucky. Cars have...
Trusted by the Big OnesMega Mold International Inc.
What would you say of a business that’s earned the trust of OEM companies like Ford, General Motors, Stellantis, Volvo, Kenworth, John Deere, Kawasaki, Bobcat, and PACCAR? Manufacturing success...
The Global Source for Trusted Bulk Mineral SuppliesCREMER ERZKONTOR North America
If ever there was a boutique broker of bulk material supplies, CREMER ERZKONTOR (formerly Possehl Erzkontor), the parent company of CREMER ERZKONTOR North America (CENA), is it. That is why...
The Crane ExpertsCRS Crane Solutions
CRS Crane Solutions knows cranes. In business since 1991, the Alberta-based company has grown into one of the largest crane suppliers in North America, building a reputation for exceptional lifting...
Manufacturing WellnessBringing Home the Best
In a time where antibiotic resistance and other looming medical quandaries are driving innovation in an ever-growing industry committed to saving lives, growing the manufacturing of laboratory and...
Smarter Lifting SolutionsSchmalz
Good companies change; great companies evolve. And few have adapted over the years like Schmalz, starting in 1910 as a razor blade business in Germany. Founder Johannes Schmalz was an entrepreneur...
Hands-On HealthcarebioLytical Laboratories
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...
Light FantasticPhotodigm
Back in March, Congressman Colin Allred toured Photodigm’s facilities in Richardson, Texas, and liked what he saw. A member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas’s 32nd district,...
Creating and Collaborating Ahead of the CurveTorvan Medical
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...
Canada’s Medical Manufacturing and Sterilization SpecialistsPAMA Manufacturing and Sterilization
In little more than a decade, PAMA has grown into one of Canada’s top specialists in ethylene oxide (EtO) sterilization and the manufacture of medical devices. Focused on single-use custom medical...
Unlocking the Secret to Beating SuperbugsSterileCare Inc.
Catheter lock solutions are medically tested and approved liquids used to promote the anti-coagulation of blood and to provide antimicrobial protection inside catheter tubing while it is not in use....
Changing the Paradigm of Dialysis TreatmentNephroCan
Our bodies are truly amazing, with various organs performing specific housekeeping tasks to keep us healthy and alive. Like the kidneys—functioning properly, these paired organs remove waste...
Advancing the Health of the Sector and the CommunityLife Sciences BC
Life Sciences British Columbia (BC) is a membership-based, not-for-profit, non-government industry association that has represented, supported, and advanced the life sciences ecosystem in the...
Moving Forward Without a DriverAutomated Work Trucks
On November 8, 2021, Walmart—the largest grocery retailer in America—made high-tech history in its hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart announced it had successfully used fully autonomous...
Four Generations & Still TruckingRogers Brothers Corporation
The year 1905 was a landmark one. Albert Einstein unveiled what became known as his Theory of Relativity, which changed the course of the world. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published The Return of...
Thermal Broken Doors to Transcend TrendsDawson Metal Company
When designing buildings that leave a lasting impression, the look and quality of entrance doors can make or break the look of any façade. Building codes are becoming increasingly strict concerning...
Disrupting the IndustrySyBridge Technologies
‘Disruptive by design’ is SyBridge Technologies’ tagline. The Southfield, Michigan-based business is an industry pioneer in transforming the design and manufacturing journey, combining deep...
A Better WorkspaceIndustrial Robotics on the Factory Floor
With all of the recent advances in AI and machine learning, modern speculative fiction has us poised for either robotic-enhanced utopias or machine-overlord dystopias, depending on an author’s level...
Clearing the AirReducing Emissions in Manufacturing
One of the most transformative times in history, the Industrial Revolution forever changed the course of how the world lives and works. Starting in 18th century Britain and spreading to other...
Innovation, Sustainability, and Customer CareESBE Scientific
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...
Getting More Done When You Do It TogetherMedtech Canada
Canada’s medical technology sector is one of the finest in the world. With more than 35,000 men and women working in the industry and over 2,000 companies operating in the nation, Canada’s medtech...
Game Changer: Making Medication Dispensing Easier, Faster, SaferARxIUM
Focused on enhancing safety, productivity, and efficiency by combining category-leading automation solutions, intuitive workflow software, and unsurpassed industry expertise, ARxIUM™ partners with...
Walk This Way – Taking Injuries and Accidents in StrideiWALKFree
It’s a product you don’t want to need, but sometime, maybe, you’ll be grateful it exists. The iWALKFree is an FDA-registered crutch alternative offering unmatched mobility and releasing users from...
Automated Control Systems, Human RelationshipsThink-PLC
Think-PLC designs and builds new automation control systems and keeps legacy control systems running long after they were installed. Among key services offered by this Lexington, North...
Stronger TogetherSamuel Automation Solutions Group
Things are booming at Samuel Automation Solutions Group (Samuel ASG) of Waterloo, Ontario. “We’ve gotten stronger. We have a greater reach and expertise. Being part of a much larger organization...
28 Years of Top Quality MachiningInnovative Machining
With Innovative Machining, LLC, securing comprehensive custom solutions and component fabrication services is as easy as setting up a call. Over a nearly three-decade legacy of putting independence...
New Products, New Ownership for This Family FirmPeninsula Plastics
Big changes have taken place at Peninsula Plastics Ltd., a start-to-finish custom injection moulding company in Fort Erie, Ontario, since it was profiled in February 2021’s Resource in Focus...
High Performance3DXTECH
The story of 3DXTECH began when, after thirty years of working for global leaders in the high-performance plastics and composites industry, the emerging technology of three-dimensional (3D) printing...
Making Clean Air a PriorityBlade Air
Coming through three years of a pandemic has made us all more sensitive to things we would otherwise take for granted. One of the biggest of these is the air that we breathe—especially in our...
A Fantastic Place to Work – And It’s GrowingBarclay Mechanical
Barclay Mechanical is a leader in industrial mechanical construction that is taking safety management to an entirely new level on projects across America. By becoming the positive change they want...
Force of NatureCreating Smart Sustainability
“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 As climate change and...
A Woman’s WorkThe Role of Women in Manufacturing
It’s a given that women are the backbone of the home, but the role they’ve played in the economy and the success of manufacturing is often understated and rarely recognized. Throughout history,...
Seizing Opportunity in a Transforming MarketVanTran Transformers
When it comes to liquid-filled distribution class transformers, the name VanTran Transformers is synonymous with quality, manufacturing speed, and agility. The company’s bespoke design,...
Customer Care in Changing TimesASI, a Division of Thermal Technologies
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....


















































