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Ottawa and Eastern Ontario (OEO) RIN Chemical Links

Ensyn Corporation

Ensyn's mission is to develop industrial applications for its core pyrolysis platform, and to implement these applications in industry. In addition to energy, Ensyn is extracting many valuable chemicals from its bio-oil, including food flavorings and natural resin products suitable for the resin and polymer industries.

Contact: Mr. David Boulard, Exec. V.P.
TEl: 613-248-2257 ext 133
Web: http://www.ensyn.com

ELORIN RIN Chemical Links

DuPont Canada Research and Development Centre

Providing knowledge-based products and processes to advanced materials and polymer-linked businesses by infusing them with highly skilled and insightful people who apply business expertise, technical capabilities, and core technologies.

Contact: David Berg
Tel: (613) 548-5131
Web: http://www.ca.dupont.com

Queen's Chemical Engineering

Access to centres and labs including (but not limited to) the Polymer Characterization Lab and the Centre for Advanced Gas Combustion Technology. Research focus includes emerging technologies, process systems engineering, polymer and reaction engineering, and biochemical engineering.

Contact: Dr. Ronald Neufeld
Tel: (613) 533-2785
Web: http://www.chemeng.queensu.ca

Technology, Engineering and Management (TEAM)

A multidisciplinary project course placing engineering, commerce and science students from Queen's on industrial consulting projects; currently consulting with Shell Canada on CO2 capture techniques and its feasibility for the oil sands industry.

Contact: David Mody
Tel: (613) 533-6618
Web: http://www.chemeng.queensu.ca/team/

Loyalist College CO2 Supercritical Extraction Facility

New applied research project and the first college-level training program of its kind in Ontario; focused on botanical extracts with applications in functional foods and nutraceuticals.

Contact: Kari Kramp
Tel: (613) 969-1913 ext. 2290

The Robinson Group

Consists of four independent businesses: an information technology firm designing business management software; an investment company; a property development company; and a 60,000 square-foot Kingston pre-manufacturing facility that pre-mixes chemicals used to make tires.

Contact: Bernie Robinson
Tel: (613) 389-7611

Goodyear Tire Plant

Process includes mixing basic rubbers with process oils, carbon black, pigments, antioxidants, accelerators and other additives, blended in Banbury machines.

Tel: (613) 354-7411
Web: http://www.goodyear.ca

North RIN Chemical Links

Pulp and Paper Mills in Northern Ontario

Produce various chemicals including tall oil, turpentine, etc.

Contact: Errol Caldwell
Tel: (705) 541-5558

Tembec

Transforms waste generated by pulping process into chemicals including resins, lignosulfonates and ethanol (alcohol). These chemicals and fuels are produced in Quebec and are available for purchase while some are used to supply energy to Tembec's Northern Ontario facilities.

Contact: Lyle Biglow
Tel: (819) 627-3321
Web: http://www.tembec.com

Wood Ash Industries

Uses fly ash and bottom ash as a binder mixed with Portland cement and other aggregates. Also uses fly ash as a lime substitute. Kirkland Lake.

Contact: Brian Coghlan
Tel: (705) 568-7877
Web: http://www.woodash.net

SOBIN RIN Chemical Links

Sun Chemical Inks

use of vegetable based ingredients for the production of inks and coatings.

Contact: Brian Collict
Tel: (905) 796-2222
Web: http://www.sunchemical.com/canada

Ontario Chemistry Value Chain Initiative

Made up of companies, associations, and individuals representing the chemistry value chain established to make Ontario a global leader in innovative, environmentally sustainable, chemical products, technologies and processes.

Contact: Bernard West
Tel: (416) 487-3397

Dow Chemical Automotive

Research into the use of biobased fibre in composite material applications.

Contact: Allan James
Tel: (248) 89-2926
Web: http://www.dow.com

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