The Centre

GreenCentre Canada, a national Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research, is a unique collaboration between industry and academia. Our not-for-profit centre fills a significant unmet need by providing the expertise and assuming the financial risks associated with developing promising early-stage innovations in Green Chemistry that meet the specific needs of industry.

Our aim is to transform Green Chemistry research breakthroughs into clean, sustainable products and processes that will benefit Canada and the world.  
GreenCentre’s strategic advantages include:

• An innovation pipeline fed by university researchers from across Canada
• Active participation by industry members from across the chemical value chain
• A full suite of commercialization services, from assessment, scale-up and testing to intellectual property protection, business management, financial resources and communications
• A technical staff dedicated to commercialization and focused on product and application development and scale-up synthesis; and
• A commercialization team with industry expertise leading the development and commercialization of our technologies