Services & Expertise

Through its Chemical Industry Mobilization Program, GreenCentre Canada offers industry the opportunity to take part in truly foundational R&D by enlisting industry as working partners in assessing promising Green Chemistry technologies.

In exchange for their financial support and participation in governance, GCC industrial stakeholders can engage the centre in fee-for-service development contracts. Working with GCC, industrial partners will be able to leverage their development dollars through funding programs such as the NSERC Idea 2 Innovation Program and the Ontario Centres of Excellence Investment Accelerator Fund.

GreenCentre Services to industry include:

•    Technology review and due diligence
•    Intellectual property protection
•    Identify and assess value to industry and undertake market analysis  
•    Develop product and/or process to address industry needs
•    Application Development
•    Scale-up synthesis and customer sample preparation
•    Development of business plan
•    Creation of sales and marketing channels

Chemistry-driven SMEs face special challenges in advancing products or services to market. In support of this community, GreenCentre Canada  also manages a $5 M SME Commercialization Fund, aimed at Ontario-based SMEs to support activities such as Green assessment, product and application development, scale-up manufacturing and targeted basic research in support of commercialization. These services are offered on a pure cost-recovery
(i.e. significantly lower than market rates) model.