{Array Additive Manufacturing Production System (ARRAY); Project location: Toronto, ON<br/>Project partners: Mosaic Manufacturing Ltd., Objex Unlimited, ReDeTec Inc., Athletic Knit; <ul><li>This project consortium will develop a novel industrial additive manufacturing solution called "Array". The new platform will be factory-floor ready, with an automated manufacturing cell consisting of independent, multi-material 3D printers, a fully automated robotic operator, centralized resource planning control software and a line of engineering grade production materials. With disruptive unit economics and scalability, Array will unlock the next generation of digital manufacturing at scale.</li><li>Total project budget: $8M / GIC funding: $3.55M</li></ul>; null,Fast manufacturing of plastic injection molds for COVID-19 diagnostic and treatment ; Project location: Boisbraind, QC<br/>Project partners: ExaCad; <ul><li>This project will aim to quickly respond to Canada?s urgent need for plastic consumables for diagnostic and treatment procedures related to COVID-19, by rapidly manufacturing complex plastic injection molds.</li><li>Total project budget: $1.83M / GIC funding: $1.83M</li></ul>; null,Smart Garments for Biometric Monitoring; Project location: Toronto, ON<br/>Project partners: Myant, Celestica, Bayshore, CardioComm Solutions; <ul><li>This project will enable the manufacturing and production of a new textile-based monitoring system for patients and frontline healthcare workers.  This ?smart garments? line of underwear, bras and other tech-filled undergarments named ?Skiin? have  the ability to read and collect biometrics from the user?s body via novel sensors which are then analyzed by Myant?s AI platform to identify signs of health issues. </li><li>Total project budget: $4.98M / GIC funding: $2.49M</li></ul>; null,Autonomous mobile robotic UV disinfector (AMRUD); Project location: Vancouver, BC<br/>Project partners: A&K Robotics; <ul><li>This project will convert AMRUD?s current prototype (a self-driving robot capable of autonomously disinfecting large areas of floor spaces and high-touch surfaces with a targeted approach specially designed to combat viruses and germs that can linger and be transmitted from surface to surface) into an MVP that can be rapidly brought to market and rolled-out in a collaborative fashion with key industry testing partners. This robot was developed specifically for use in commercial spaces, and supplements janitorial staff to keep places clean, reduce the spread of germs during disease outbreaks and aid in efforts to proactively prevent public health crises.  </li><li>Total project budget: $1.52M / GIC funding: $0.76M</li></ul>; null,Ventilator Components; Project location: Winnipeg, MB<br/>Project partners: BOMImed, Synergy Mouldworks, Precision ADM; <ul><li>This project will support the rapid development and production launch of high quality, fast-to-produce and cost effective ventilator components to fulfill critical requirements for Canada?s COVID-19 response. </li><li>Total project budget: $0.93M / GIC funding: $0.93M</li></ul>; null,Low latency tele-robotics for manufacturing pick and place; Project location:Kitchener, ON<br/>Project partners: Quali Artificial Intelligence Inc., Novo Textile; <ul><li>As part of this pilot project, partners will develop a solution where a remote operator can take control of a robotic arm when the robot is unsure of how to complete the objective task at hand.  Most tasks in manufacturing environments are semi-structured, meaning there are some structured, repeatable portions that a robot can be pre-programmed to automate, but the rest of the task are unstructured and infeasible for pre-programmed robots. The goal of this project is to help Canadian manufacturers gain competitiveness by increasing the scope of feasibility of robotic automation through assisted teleoperation.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.2M / GIC funding: $0.1M</li></ul>; null,Novel Clean Tech. Manufacturing Process for the Catalytic Production of a Green Disinfectant for Water Treatment  ; Project location: Mississauga, ON<br/>Project partners: Datec Coating Corporation, Process Research Ortech Inc; <ul><li>This project will demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of developing a chemical manufacturing technology that will produce a third-generation green waste water disinfectant. The disinfectant may also be used in drinking water treatment, industrial effluent treatment and bio-solids remediation, among other applications.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.2M / GIC funding: $0.08M</li></ul>; null,Manufacturing Process for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Gradient Coil Production; Project location: Toronto, ON<br/>Project partners: Synaptive Medical Inc., MRIdt Inc.; <ul><li>This project will design and build a flexible production line for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) gradient coils developing the capability to simulate, optimize and manufacture more advanced gradient coils of various sizes.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.8M / GIC funding: $0.24M</li></ul>; null,Accelerated Test Kits for Point-of-Care ; Project location: Vancouver, BC<br/>Project partners: Response Biomedical; <ul><li>This project will extrapolate current test methodology to expediently develop COVID-19 test kits, allowing for test results being returned in less than 15 minutes. These tests, designed to detect the presence of the virus, can be performed in Point of Care settings. This project expects to manufacture 500,000 test kits per month.</li><li>Total project budget: $2.74M / GIC funding: $2.74M</li></ul>; null,Remote Monitoring for Patients at Home; Project location: Kitchener, ON<br/>Project partners: Cloud Diagnostics; <ul><li>This project will enable many non-acute patients to be discharged early with at-home monitoring through a hardware/software platform, freeing up beds and relieving staff. Patients can continue oxygen therapy in the comfort of their homes with this wrist cuff artery pulse and symptom monitoring technology. </li><li>Total project budget: $3.51M / GIC funding: $1.76M</li></ul>; null,Digital transformation of secondary metallurgy facility at ArcelorMittal Dofasco; Project location: Hamilton, ON<br/>Project partners: ArcelorMittal Dofasco, IBM Canada Ltd., Tenova Goodfellow Inc. and IFIVEO Canada Inc. ; <ul><li>This project is an opportunity to marry the best in oxygen steelmaking with the best in digital transformation with the goal of digitally transforming a manufacturing asset in a mature, heavy industry.  Digitalization in heavy industry lags that of other manufacturing subsectors.  This project will create value in advancing the state of understanding of the digitalization process in Canada?in a real heavy manufacturing environment?including: the process execution required to implement intelligence, the standards required to enable the flow of data, as well as the impact on the workforce.  This is especially critical as all global industrial economies are racing towards these goals.</li><li>Total project budget: $12.07M / GIC funding: $3.91M</li></ul>; null,Face shields using 3D printing; Project location: Oakville, ON<br/>Project partners: Burloak Technologies ; <ul><li>Project partners will be expediting product design, regulatory approvals, and sourcing of materials to enable the 3-D manufacturing of protective face shields. </li><li>Total project budget: $1.15M / GIC funding: $1.15M</li></ul>; null,Open-source ventilator design; Project location: Victoria, BC<br/>Project partners: Starfish Medical, Linamar-MacDon and Cerebra Health, Product Creation Studio; <ul><li>This project will increase the availability of ventilators in Canada. Project partners will develop an open-source, safe, effective, and cost-efficient ventilator design, and identify manufacturers and suppliers to quickly ramp up production. </li><li>Total project budget: $5M / GIC funding: $5M</li></ul>; null,Bio-refinery Engineering Study; Project location: Trail, BC<br/>Project partners: Advanced BioCarbon 3D Ltd., KF Hemp Corp.; <ul><li>This feasibility study will provide the foundational knowledge necessary to construct a biorefinery capable of processing ~10 metric tonnes of hemp per day into commercialized products such as compostable medical personal protective equipment and other advanced materials such as bioplastics and graphene.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.2M / GIC funding: $0.1M</li></ul>; null,Manufacturing a N100 face mask using nanofibres; Project location: Cambridge, ON<br/>Project partners: IPC Technologies dba Prescientx, The Big-Nano Corporation ; <ul><li>This project will scale up the production of a disposable, self-sanitizing, sterilizable, reusable N100 face mask that will set a higher filtration bar for performance and protection than the current N95 masks.  </li><li>Total project budget: $2.98M / GIC funding: $1.32M</li></ul>; null,Disinfection Robot; Project location: Burnaby, BC<br/>Project partners: Advanced Intelligent Systems Inc.; <ul><li>This project will provide a robot that will map large scale environments such as hospitals, navigate to interest points, perform hands-free UV disinfection without presence of humans, report the task details and move to the next interest point to repeat the same actions. AIS cloud capabilities allows the collection and reporting of data from the environment; monitoring of the performance; interactive controlling; and updating and troubleshooting the robot to increase safety and AI capabilities.</li><li>Total project budget: $1.95M / GIC funding: $0.98M</li></ul>; null,Micro-Power-Plant Advanced Manufacturing Demonstrator; Project location: Toronto, ON<br/>Project partners:McGuire Aero Propulsion Solutions, Burloak Technologies; <ul><li>This project will showcase the benefits of Industry 4.0 to realize a novel advanced green energy generation technology by piloting a micro-power plant that uses advanced manufacturing for a green energy technology with zero emissions.</li><li>Total project budget: $5.67M / GIC funding: $2.24M</li></ul>; null,Transformation of the Stone Veneer Panel Manufacturing and Installation Process ; Project location: Moncton, NB<br/>Project partners: Apex Industries Product Development & Automation Group Inc., 709960 NB Ltd.; <ul><li>This pilot project aims to develop a manufacturing process and installation method for manufactured stone veneer panels. This process advancement will include the development of an automated concrete colour 3D printer providing precise volumetric and positioning control along with the enhancements of a novel patented attachment mechanism integrated into a single stone veneer panel manufacturing process.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.2M / GIC funding: $0.1M</li></ul>; null,New PCB Manufacturing Process; Project location: Toronto, ON<br/>Project partners: Addem Labs Inc., COREngineering Ltd. 
; <ul><li>This pilot project aims develop a innovative professional printed circuit board manufacturing facility in Ontario, in order to attract the electronics supply chain to Canada and provide an ultra-clean option to manufacture electronics in record time.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.5M / GIC funding: $0.25M</li></ul>; null,Module for Digitalizing Work Instructions to Augmented Reality; Project location: Montreal, QC<br/>Project partners: DeepSight Réalité Augmentée Inc., Avior Integrated Products Inc.
; <ul><li>Project partners will add a new module to the current DeepSight augmented reality (AR) platform that allows organizations to create holographic guides to help workers in the assembly of aerospace components and composite parts. This will greatly increase productivity and reduce the number of defects, as the employees will be empowered by immersive and intuitive instructions. </li><li>Total project budget: $0.34M / GIC funding: $0.17M</li></ul>; null,Development and validation of automated patient specific medical device software to improve additive manufacturability; Project location: Winnipeg, MB<br/>Project partners: Orthopedic Innovation Centre, Pega Medical Inc., Spinologics, Conceptualiz, Precision ADM Inc. ; <ul><li>This project will see project partners create a fully integrated platform for the manufacturing of customized orthopedic implants for patients based on pre-operative imaging and physician recommendations. These new medical devices can be created ?on demand? ? within hospitals ? thereby simplifying surgeries, improving patient recovery time and greatly enhancing their quality of life. These made-to-order implants will replace off-the-shelf implants that come in fixed dimensions, ensuring a much better fit for each patient, while costing no more than current off-the-shelf models.</li><li>Total project budget: $4.93M / GIC funding: $2.07M</li></ul>; null,Scale-up of graphene based membrane manufacturing; Project location: Waterloo, ON<br/>Project partners: Evercloak, Environmental Systems Corp.; <ul><li>This project is leveraging the development of a breakthrough manufacturing process for ultra-thin graphene membranes which have the potential to radically transform facets of everyday life from energy storage to drug delivery and water purification. To date, these membranes have not been a commercial success due to a lack of cost-effective and scalable approaches for manufacturing the nano-scale films quickly, continuously, and over large areas. Project partners will be working together to scale up the commercial application of these graphene membranes into the manufacture of critical environment systems and cleanrooms with stringent requirements for precision temperature, humidity control, air quality and pressure.</li><li>Total project budget: $4.57M / GIC funding: $2.03M</li></ul>; null,Creating biodegrable material for N95 masks and HEPA filters; Project location: Craik, SK<br/>Project partners: Titan Clean Energy, Panther Industries Inc., The Big-Nano, Corporation, K+A Potash Canada and Canada Masq Corp. ; <ul><li>This project will highlight Canada as a global leader in advanced sustainable bioproducts by building a 100% Canadian supply of biodegradable melt-blown fabric feedstock and replacing the highly polluting fossil-fuel derived resins (i.e., such as Polypropylene) that are currently imported from Asia, Europe and USA.</li><li>Total project budget: $1.81M / GIC funding: $0.9M</li></ul>; null,Hand sanitizer production system from pellet to pallet; Project location: Oro Medonte, ON<br/>Project partners: Molded Precision Components, Niigon Machines Ltd. ; <ul><li>This project will develop new advanced manufacturing techniques to enable production to packaging of hand sanitizer in a continuous process.  </li><li>Total project budget: $12.12M / GIC funding: $6.06M</li></ul>; null,Creating automated manufacturing equipment and supplying N95 masks; Project location: Coquitlam, BC<br/>Project partners: Novo Textile Company Ltd., Harbour Technologies ; <ul><li>This project consortium will design, develop and produce a unique N95 mask manufacturing process that will be fully automated and first of its kind in Canada. </li><li>Total project budget: $2.4M / GIC funding: $0.91M</li></ul>; null,3D-Printed face shields; Project location: Toronto, ON<br/>Project partners: Mosaic Manufacturing, Glia Inc., Rockmass Technologies Inc., Redetec Inc.; <ul><li>This project will directly benefit frontline health care workers by using a proven, compliant design and an existing supply chain to manufacture 45,000 face shields. </li><li>Total project budget: $0.44M / GIC funding: $0.44M</li></ul>; null,Rapid Test Kits; Project location: Halifax, NS<br/>Project partners: Sona Nanotech; <ul><li>This project will use nanotechnology to develop point-of-care test kits that will improve the accuracy of virus detection and provide results in 5-10 minutes.</li><li>Total project budget: $4.13M / GIC funding: $4.13M</li></ul>; null,Automated inspection system for robotic welding operations; Project location: Vancouver, BC<br/>Project partners: Autometrics Manufacturing Technologies, Inc., Macron Metalfab Inc.; <ul><li>This pilot project collects data for machine learning and validations, and addresses challenges around the deployment of the technology at an industrial scale and over different welding equipment operations resulting in a real-time quality management system. The accuracy and application of the machine-learning software will be improved by accumulating process data through running the system over different welding operations and executing designed test plans.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.37M / GIC funding: $0.19M</li></ul>; null,Real Time Asset Monitoring, Optimization & Food Processing Supply Chain Collaboration; Project location: Vancouver, BC<br/>Project partners: Panevo Services Limited, Saputo Dairy Products, Accuenergy ; <ul><li>Building on successes from an earlier Pilot Project which was launched to address the food processing sector?s lagging adoption of industry 4.0 technologies, this consortium will apply a novel solution for determining the performance of production assets across food processing and related supply chains. The new project will create a scalable, commercially ready real-time monitoring and advanced analytics platform which will lead to significant commercial opportunities for the consortium partners.</li><li>Total project budget: $3.72M / GIC funding: $1.38M</li></ul>; null,Saskatchewan Industrial Mining Supplier Association (SIMSA) Digital ; Project location: Saskatoon, SK<br/>Project partners: Saskatchewan Industrial Mining Suppliers Association; <ul><li>This project will create a new, digital platform that will allow members and members? clients to continue to do business together by digitizing current practices and developing new partnerships and business opportunities. The new platform also allows SIMSA and its members to link virtually to other mining industry associations across Canada, encouraging innovation and collaboration with new partners in both traditional and non-traditional industry sectors.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.15M / GIC funding: $0.08M</li></ul>; null,AscendBio; Project location: Sydney, NS<br/>Project partners: Verschuren Centre; <ul><li>The Verschuren Centre is leading the creation of the Clean Technology Bio-Industrial Cluster. The cluster will enable and accelerate commercialization of new Canadian clean technology bio-industrial start-ups, connect bio-industrial SMEs with other Canadian manufacturers, create leading innovations and IP, and create a sustainable and renewable bio-industrial supply chain. Creation of the cluster will engage existing manufacturing organizations and attract new industrial partners, making Canada a leader in bio-industrial solutions.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.15M / GIC funding: $0.08M</li></ul>; null,Advancing Large-scale Graphene and Thin-film Membrane Manufacturing; Project location: Kitchener, ON<br/>Project partners: Evercloak Inc.,  Zen Graphene Solutions; <ul><li>Project partners will work together to develop a production process for graphene and thin-film membrane that will be primarily applied in the cleantech sector. </li><li>Total project budget: $0.5M / GIC funding: $0.25M</li></ul>; null,Global Leadership in Life Sciences by Enabling Commercial Scale Manufacture of Cell & Gene Therapies; Project Location: Toronto, ON<br/>Project partners: OmniaBio Inc. (New CDMO spin-off from CFRM Enterprises), Aspect Biosystems Ltd., Canadian Advanced Therapies Training Institute, ExCellThera Inc., Morphocell Technologies Inc.; <ul><li>This project will build and set up a commercial biomanufacturing facility in Hamilton, which will supply new advanced therapies for cell and gene-based technologies or for existing products that are not currently available at a commercial scale in Canada. The project will focus on process development, advanced manufacturing platforms, analytics and regulatory development and in turn, help position Canada as a global life sciences leader.</li><li>Total project budget: $35.82M / GIC funding: $10.54</li></ul>; null,Advancing large steel press technology; Project location: Toronto, ON<br/>Project partners: Conrex, Macrodyne Technologies Inc., Source Industrial Services Inc. ; <ul><li>This collaborative project will create the world?s most sophisticated large steel forming press and will bring new capacity to manipulate large thick panels for domestic shipbuilding needs on Canada?s East and West coasts. The consortium aims to challenge conventional capabilities and push new possibilities within the industrial use of Canadian steel, strengthen Canadian supplier networks, and showcase unique Canadian IP and manufacturing capabilities in press and crane technologies.</li><li>Total project budget: $4.99M / GIC funding: $2.22M</li></ul>; null,Self-Sterilization Coating Materials; Project location: Guelph, ON<br/>Project partners: Envision SQ; <ul><li>This project will scale-up an advanced coating product that maintains surfaces in a clean state even after dirty contacts. This product can be applied to high-touch surfaces in public, commercial and residential environments to help prevent spread of COVID-19 virus. </li><li>Total project budget: $1.74M / GIC funding: $1.74M</li></ul>; null,Pilot scale of Nanogel Lubricants, or Superabsorbent (SAC) Lubrication for the Automotive Stamping Industry; Project location: Mississauga, ON<br/>Project partners: KSL Lubricants, Wolfdale Tool & Stamping; <ul><li>This project will develop a solution that will improve tool life and reduce costs by reducing the amount of lubricant required in manufacturing processes.  Their project will validate KSL?s proprietary gel based lubricant technology in various industrial settings and machining operations, and aims to show a 50% overall improvement performance and cost improvement compared to traditional lubricants. </li><li>Total project budget: $0.32M / GIC funding: $0.14M</li></ul>; null,PPE gowns made from recycled material; Project location: London, ON<br/>Project partners: Carmina De Young, Optima Colour; <ul><li>This project will create a unique, self-contained sustainable supply chain of disposable isolation gowns and other PPE resulting in the diversion of 11 million pounds of single use plastics from Canadian landfills.</li><li>Total project budget: $3.99M / GIC funding: $1.99M</li></ul>; null,Autonomous Mobile UV-Light Emitting Robotic Vehicle; Project location: Kitchener, ON<br/>Project partners: IPC Technologies dba Prescientx, Clearpath Robotics; <ul><li>This project will rapidly develop and deploy a fleet of self-driving mobile robotic vehicles integrated with an Ultra-Violet (UV) light disinfection system to quickly, intelligently and continuously sanitize essential workplaces. The first wave of mobile UV light-emitting vehicles will be deployed immediately in controlled-access healthcare settings for patients, medical staff and cleaning workers entering hospital examination rooms, test centers and treatment facilities. A second wave of vehicles are targeted for essential workplaces and commercial industrial environments to sanitize medical and food supply chains, decontaminate busy warehouse operations and disinfect front-line manufacturing and assembly lines between shifts. </li><li>Total project budget: $1.5M / GIC funding: $0.7M</li></ul>; null,Development and Testing of Cube Molding Methodology; Project location: Oro-Medonte, ON<br/>Project partners: Molded Precision Components, Niigon Machines Ltd; <ul><li>This project will see project partners develop a new manufacturing process that will transform the way automotive components are made, allowing cycle times to be cut in half, increasing productivity and decreasing costs. </li><li>Total project budget: $0.5M / GIC funding: $0.25M</li></ul>; null,Zero Transition Process; Project location: Aurora, ON<br/>Project partners: Axiom Group Inc., MS Falcon Tooling Inc., Kytech Machine Works Ltd., Bulldog Polymers Inc.
; <ul><li>This project is developing a technology to eliminate visual transitions between different plastic materials, typically hard and soft plastics, for use in automobile interior and exteriors, with applications in broader advanced manufacturing industries. This solution will strengthen Canada?s automotive industry and the broader high-performance plastics manufacturing industry, and will have applications in aerospace, medical devices, construction, heavy equipment, and sport equipment manufacturing.</li><li>Total project budget: $1.98M / GIC funding: $0.88M</li></ul>; null,Transforming Food Waste Anaerobic Digester into a Bioplastic Manufacturing Hub; Project location: Scarborough, ON<br/>Project partners: Genecis Bioindustries Inc., StormFisher Ltd.; <ul><li>This project will design and commission a demonstration add-on unit for an anaerobic digester to convert a portion of their organic waste feedstock into polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) bioplastics. PHAs are the world?s best biodegradable plastic, having similar properties to commonly used petroleum plastics, with added end-of-life sustainability and functionality for applications such as thermo-resistant food packaging, agricultural plastics, medical plastics, and additive manufacturing (3D printing) filaments. This innovation can help anaerobic digesters produce a new revenue stream from their existing operations, while making high-demand sustainable bioplastic resins for the Canadian economy.</li><li>Total project budget: $6.03M / GIC funding: $2.68M</li></ul>; null,Deep Cryogenic treatment tank for industrial applications ; Project location: Dartmouth, NS<br/>Project partners: Deep Cryogenics International Inc., Induspec; <ul><li>This project will result in the manufacture of a deep cryogenic treatment tank that reduces wear, corrosion and material fatigue in metal alloys for use in the mining, power, marine and energy industries.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.45M / GIC funding: $0.23M</li></ul>; null,Pressure molded N95 masks; Project location: Longueuil, QC<br/>Project partners: Armfoam (Artofix), Roswell DHT ; <ul><li>The project will create a unique shape of N95 mask with different filtering material including an ultrasonic welded seal and optimal layer sequencing, in order to permit a more reliable and comfortable fit.</li><li>Total project budget: $7.94M / GIC funding: $2.44M</li></ul>; null,Novel Application of Advanced Manufacturing Approaches to High Quality Protein; Project location: Toronto, ON<br/>Project partners: Aspire Food Group, TELUS, A & L Canada Laboratories Inc., Darwin AI ; <ul><li>This project will be implementing advanced manufacturing technologies such as industrial automation and robotics, IoT, and deep learning/analytics to farm crickets that have a similar protein quality to meat and with a significantly reduced environmental footprint. Through a fully automated food grade, insect protein manufacturing site in London, Ontario, this project is expected to revolutionize food-grade protein production, and address food insecurity as well as the high environmental cost of protein production.</li><li>Total project budget: $72.76M / GIC funding: $16.8M</li></ul>; null,OAC Virtual Aerospace Matchmaking Platform and Intelligence Hub; Project location: Pickering, ON<br/>Project partners: Ontario Aerospace Council; <ul><li>Ontario Aerospace Council (OAC) has designed a Virtual Aerospace Matchmaking Platform and Intelligence Hub branded <ul><ul>aero+b2beematch<ul><ul> that will be a dedicated space for aerospace SMEs and industry clusters to network globally, gather market intelligence, and share innovation challenges. The platform?s analytical tools will deliver valuable insights on the sector?s demographics, capabilities and funding gaps enabling OAC to provide increased support to its member ecosystem. OAC?s added internal digital capabilities will help to further promote the growth of Ontario?s aerospace capabilities and develop collaborative partnerships across Canada and around the world.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.46M / GIC funding: $0.08M</li></ul>; null,CAMM Transformation Virtual Program; Project location: Windsor, ON<br/>Project partners: Canadian Association of Moldmakers Inc.; <ul><li>This project will develop a digital platform that will allow moldmakers to shift their business plans to include a hybrid of virtual and in-person strategies. This will provide SMEs with access to international markets and help them become more globally competitive. CAMM also anticipates that the virtual platform will attract new members, increasing revenues and allowing for more investment in critical programs for CAMM members.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.16M / GIC funding: $0.08M</li></ul>; null,Precision Molded Personal Protection Visor; Project location: Toronto, ON<br/>Project partners: Molded Precision Components (MPC), Sterling Industries, supply chain contractors; <ul><li>This project will produce a fully recyclable two-piece face shield design that will be cost effective, address the short term need for frontline healthcare PPE and create a long term supply chain. The goal is to produce 48 million face shields annually.  </li><li>Total project budget: $5M / GIC funding: $5M</li></ul>; null,Advanced Manufacturing for Highly Adaptive Manufacturing Environments; Project location: Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC<br/>Project partners: 
MDA Corporation, Promark Electronics, AV&R ; <ul><li>This project seeks to transform the Canadian manufacturing landscape by applying advanced manufacturing technologies into production environments where constant changes and the ability to maintain high levels of flexibility are essential competitive advantages.  The collaborating partners will develop technologies that include the integration of artificial intelligence, industry 4.0, data sharing, predictive maintenance, collaborative robotics and manufacturing process self-optimization through the use of data and dynamic production planning.</li><li>Total project budget: $11.26M / GIC funding: $5M</li></ul>; null,Advanced manufacturing applications in mining and mineral processing; Project location: Calgary, AB<br/>Project partners: Exergy Solutions, Suncor Energy, Precision ADM Inc.; <ul><li>This consortium will develop new oil sands and mineral processing technologies that will reduce energy intensity and resulting greenhouse gas emissions. It will also develop cleantech solutions that will mitigate the environmental impacts of using solvents, significantly reducing water usage and eliminating the need for tailings ponds. </li><li>Total project budget: $4.82M / GIC funding: $2.14M</li></ul>; null,Leadership in Gene Therapy; Project location: Toronto, ON<br/>Project partners: iVexSol Canada, Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine, GE Healthcare; <ul><li>Project partners will develop an advanced manufacturing process for gene-editing tools that have been successfully used to fight cancer and repair a variety of rare and inherited genetic disorders in both children and adults. The new manufacturing process advanced by this project will address the challenges that face the current production of this gene therapy tool, such as outdated and inefficient processes, and will minimize the cost and footprint in manufacturing, while maintaining a high level of quality and safety. This project aims to establish Canada as a world leader in gene-editing tools and technology.</li><li>Total project budget: $4.26M / GIC funding: $1.89M</li></ul>; null,Manufacturing capacity scale up COVID-19 Reagents and Test Kits; Project location: Toronto, ON<br/>Project partners: International Point of Care Inc. (IPOC), Precision Biomonitoring Inc., Immune Response Diagnostics Inc., Suncor Energy Inc.; <ul><li>This project will expand IPOC's manufacturing capacity to cope with increased demands of COVID In-Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) products.</li><li>Total project budget: $4.34M / GIC funding: $2.17M</li></ul>; null,Roll to Roll Continuous Printing of Transparent Conductors and Heaters; Project location: Waterloo, ON<br/>Project partners: Nano Cnet Ltd., Evercloak Inc.; <ul><li>This project will develop an automated system that can manufacture flexible, transparent electrodes and heaters utilizing Nano Silver Strand technology with a diverse range of clean technology applications such as batteries, electronics and solar cells.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.5M / GIC funding: $0.25M</li></ul>; null,Aerospace & Automotive Advanced Air Mobility Manufacturing; Project location: Vancouver, BC<br/>Project partners: Canadian Advanced Air Mobility; <ul><li>This project will result in a zero-emission aviation solution that will fuse the expertise of Canada?s existing automotive sector with that of the aerospace industry in manufacturing and operating new zero-emission aircraft in Canada. This will place Canada at the forefront of zero-emission aircraft manufacturing.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.15M / GIC funding: $0.07M</li></ul>; null,N95 Respirator Mask Automation; Project location: Cambridge, ON<br/>Project partners: Eclipse Automation; <ul><li>The project will expedite the Canadian-based manufacturing of N95 respirator masks which are federally and provincially identified as PPE (personal protective equipment) in ?critical-need" for healthcare workers.</li><li>Total project budget: $2.45M / GIC funding: $2.11M</li></ul>; null,Real-time Overall Equipment Effectiveness Monitoring & Optimization; Project location: Vancouver, BC<br/>Project partners: Panevo Services Limited, Accuenergy Canada Inc; <ul><li>Project partners will develop and pilot a software platform which utilizes the latest IIoT technologies to enable cost-effective, real time monitoring of production assets to help manufacturers identify inefficiencies, boost productivity and reduce waste.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.26M / GIC funding: $0.13M</li></ul>; null,Delivering a Transformative Industry 4.0 Capability Enhancement for the East Coast Battery Materials Development & Manufacturing Sector ; Project location: Bedford, NS<br/>Project partners: Novonix Battery, Well Engineered Incorporated; <ul><li>This project aims to help Canada establish itself as a major player in the global battery sector as it aims to create a Canadian electric vehicle (EV) value chain to meet the current lithium-ion battery manufacturing demands related to the adoption of electric vehicles and grid energy storage. The bulk of this manufacturing is currently done in Asia and employs established, wet-chemical processes. In this project, Novonix will employ its patented dry synthesis process and technology that will be less costly than the traditional wet-chemical processing, while also reducing chemical waste streams.</li><li>Total project budget: $17.75M / GIC funding: $1.68M</li></ul>; null,COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine; Project location: Toronto, ON<br/>Project partners: Providence Therapeutics Holdings Inc., Northern RNA Inc. ; <ul><li>This project will develop a made-in-Canada COVID-19 mRNA vaccine by expanding Providence's vaccine manufacturing capacity in Canada to meet the needs of Canadians. It will establish mRNA vaccine manufacturing capacity within Canada and build a raw material supply chain that supports an exciting new industry.</li><li>Total project budget: $10.1M / GIC funding: $5.05M</li></ul>; null,Integrating Automation for Scale up of Carbon Fibre Cascade Production; Project location: Burlington, ON<br/>Project partners: Formula Solutions Inc. (FSI), AXYZ Automation Group, Promation, Weber Manufacturing
; <ul><li>This project consortium is working to integrate automated vacuum infusion technologies to scale up the production of engineered carbon fibre parts while reducing production costs. The scale up period, which will extend to the end of 2021, will position Canada as a leader in the production of aerospace components, securing long term employment and technological capabilities for Canadians, as well as securing the Canadian supply chain for complex material manufacturing.</li><li>Total project budget: $8.17M / GIC funding: $3.63M</li></ul>; null,Automated Slitter Table Technology with Weight Compensation; Project location: Concord, ON<br/>Project partners: Macrodyne Technologies Inc., Ridgetech Automation, Linear Automation; <ul><li>This project will develop an automated slitter table with weight compensation technology for reducing scrap rate and reducing labour costs for compression molding of Sheet Molding Compound, with a particular focus on the Electrical Vehicle sub-sector of the Automotive Industry.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.25M / GIC funding: $0.13M</li></ul>; null,Asphaltene Carbon Fiber Feasibility Study; Project location: Calgary, AB<br/>Project partners: Exergy Solutions Inc., Suncor Energy Oils Sands Limited, Archer BD Inc.; <ul><li>This feasibility study will see project partners investigate and develop a commercial asphaltene derived carbon fiber advanced manufacturing process. The main goal is to determine the pilot plant design, capital and operating costs to inform the go-forward decision.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.17M / GIC funding: $0.08M</li><ul>; null,AI Powered Visual Quality Inspection; Project location: Kitchener, ON<br/>Project partners: AIXEL Inc., Riverside Natural Foods Ltd., Axiom Plastics Inc., Terra Cotta Foods Ltd. ; <ul><li>Project partners have come together to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) powered plug and play camera solution that automates visual quality inspection for manufacturers. This project will use vision systems and AI as part of an automated manufacturing process to ensure higher product quality than could be achieved using human inspection methods. The technology can be used in a wide range of industries spanning automotive, plastics, and food and beverage manufacturing.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.2M / GIC funding: $0.1M</li></ul>; null,COVID-19 RNA Test Kit; Project location: Fredericton, NB<br/>Project partners: LuminUltra Technologies; <ul><li>This project will support the development of a novel SARS-CoV-2 test kit based on nucleic acid (RNA) detection of novel corona virus; including associated advanced manufacturing scale-up to meet national and international demand. </li><li>Total project budget: $4.99M / GIC funding: $3.1M</li></ul>; null,Autonomous Adaptable Robot System; Project location: Aurora, ON<br/>Project partners: Stronach Centre for Innovation (a division of Magna International Inc.), Maple Advanced Robotics Inc.; <ul><li>This project will result in a novel robot integration solution for manufacturers who require flexible solutions for their growing product mix, but may not have the scale of work or capital resources needed to justify larger investments in automation systems. Using the latest in 3D vision technology, software and robotics, the solution will allow operators to easily modify the robot path and workspace.</li><li>Total project budget: $5.98M / GIC funding: $2.62M</li></ul>; null,Development of large-scale additive manufacturing capabilities for next-generation, eco-friendly hybrid rocket engines; Project location: Montreal, QC<br/>Project partners: Reaction Dynamics Lab, Amrikart Ressource Cybernetique; <ul><li>This project aims to develop a Canadian, in-house manufacturing solution that will allow the deployment of a comprehensive value chain in developing and manufacturing large-scale metal 3D-printed pieces for high performance rocket engines.</li><li>Total project budget: $4.89M / GIC funding: $1.51M</li></ul>; null,Virtual Photon Cluster; Project location: Quebec City, QC<br/>Project partners: Canadian Photonic Industry Consortium Inc.; <ul><li>This consortium is creating a virtual photon cluster that will provide information and insight into the application of photonics in different industry sectors and will foster collaboration by bringing together photonic and manufacturing companies, academia, and research institutions. The cluster aims to accelerate the growth of the Canadian industry through photonics.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.06M / GIC funding: $0.03M</li></ul>; null,Feasibility of a New and Innovative Production End-of-Line Tester; Project location: Vaughan, ON<br/>Project partners: Kepstrum Inc., Stackpole International Engineered Products Ltd. ; <ul><li>This feasibility study will identify analytical algorithms that will create a system capable of identifying compound production problems that cannot be detected by current quality control processes. This will help address the increasing levels of recalls that the Canadian automotive manufacturing industry is experiencing as a result of unidentified product failures during production.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.28M / GIC funding: $0.1M</li></ul>; null,Manufacturing & Export Enhancement Cluster (MEE); Project location: Red Deer, AB<br/>Project partners: Central Alberta Access Prosperity; <ul><li>Central Alberta Access Prosperity has formed the Alberta Manufacturing & Export Enhancement (MEE) cluster to bring together Alberta?s manufacturers to create opportunities, share best practices, solve common challenges, build partnerships, and enhance growth. Through networking, economies of scale and educational events, manufacturers will gain access to expertise and information that will strengthen competitiveness, encourage innovation, and help companies generate new commercial opportunities in domestic and global markets.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.21M / GIC funding: $0.08M</li></ul>; null,Advanced Systems for High Purity Alumina (HPA) Production; Project location: Oakville (Ontario)<br/>Project partners: Polar Sapphire Ltd., Nature Alu Inc., Dynamic Concept; <ul><li>This project aims to develop and advance novel systems to produce HPA, a critical mineral that is suitable for new and emerging electronic applications used in electric vehicles (EV), as well as future battery design components.</li><li>Total project budget: $5.01M / GIC funding: $2.22M</li></ul>; null,3D BioFibR Advanced Biofiber Manufacturing  ; Project location: Halifax, NS<br/>Project partners: 3D BioFibR Inc., Dalhousie University; <ul><li>This project will result in the development of an advanced biofiber manufacturing process capable of producing spider silk sutures for microsurgery, woven collagen tubes for nerve repair and other protein-based fibers that have the lengths, linear density, and strengths necessary to be processed using industrial weaving and braiding equipment. Current production processes yield a maximum fiber length of 5 meters, whereas this new process could yield fibres as long as 100 meters - a gamechanger in the advanced biomaterial space.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.21M / GIC funding: $0.07M</li></ul>; null,Canadian Nanomedicine Cluster; Project location: Edmonton, AB<br/>Project partners: NanoCanada; <ul><li>NanoCanada has formed the first Canadian nanomedicine cluster, Nanomedicine Canada connecting a community of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in the nanomedicine supply chain. The new cluster will be a hub for collaboration and partnerships, provide a database of expertise and capabilities, and showcase Canada?s leadership on the global stage.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.16M / GIC funding: $0.08M</li></ul>; null,RNA Viral Detection Kits ; Project location: Guelph, ON<br/>Project partners: Precision Biomonitoring, Evik Diagnostics; <ul><li>This project will set up a manufacturing facility in Ontario for point-of-care COVID-19 test kits, replacing imports from the U.S. and elsewhere. The project positions Canada for world leadership in the manufacturing of mobile test kits and provides a secure supply for the health authorities.</li><li>Total project budget: $4.99M / GIC funding: $4.99M</li></ul>; null,Advancing Ablation Processes for Automotive Applications; Project location: Oshawa, ON<br/>Project partners: CG Belle Industries Inc., 2.	Spectral Devices Inc. ; <ul><li>This project will develop an advanced manufacturing process to remove various coatings from metal surfaces using laser technology, eliminating the need for the toxic chemicals or hazardous materials typically used in this application. Although the initial target of the project is the automotive industry, the knowledge and expertise developed in this project will create a localized cluster for laser ablation technology applicable to multiple industries.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.37M / GIC funding: $0.17M</li></ul>; null,Mycionics robotic mushroom harvester; Project location: Putnam, ON<br/>Project partners: Mycionics Inc., Whitecrest Mushrooms Ltd., Piccioni Brothers Mushroom Farm Ltd.; <ul><li>This project will fully automate the mushroom harvesting process using novel advanced robotics. The entire harvesting process will be optimized through the application of data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. As a complete system, the robotic harvester will increase the yield of a growing room through a ?smart graze harvesting? strategy, picking over a 24-hour period and allowing the system to pick each mushroom at the optimal time instead of being restricted to harvesting only during normal working hours. Additionally, the ability to harvest robotically and the use of data analytics will increase food safety, traceability and disease detection.</li><li>Total project budget: $3.88M / GIC funding: $1.72M</li></ul>; null,Disinfection Service Robot (DSR) Solution; Project location: Toronto, ON<br/>Project partners: Global DWS Corp; <ul><li>This project will provide a fully autonomous service robotic platform that is spatially aware and capable of seamlessly navigating any given one-level space while avoiding obstacles to ensure human safety. It is equipped with virus disinfectant and UV-C lamp capabilities to provide sanitization solution to essential businesses and public workplaces by eliminating 99.9% of bacteria and viruses without any human intervention needed. The project will leverage cognitive capabilities (custom vision, voice interaction and autonomous navigation) and the integration of multi solutions on a single, integrated and secure platform.
</li><li>Total project budget: $2.09M / GIC funding: $1M</li></ul>; null,Manufacturing medical grade surgical masks; Project location: Calgary, AB<br/>Project partners: Fidelity Machine & Mould Solutions, Fidelity Medical Manufacturing, Sentient Tools Engineering Corp; <ul><li>This project will use advanced manufacturing technologies to make improvements to mask manufacturing machines, develop fully automated production equipment, create a recycling module to reuse waste materials, and use alternative materials to produce filtration layers.</li><li>Total project budget: $3.4M / GIC funding: $1.51M</li></ul>; null,Repurposing Anaesthesia Machines to Ventilators; Project location: Dartmouth, NS<br/>Project partners: DMF Medical; <ul><li>This project will enable the modification of anesthesia machines for ICU ventilation applications using memsorb? medical membranes, instead of chemical reactions to filter CO2 from the circuit. This eliminates the current need for mandatory replacement of devices after 8 hours of use, allowing for continuous use for 12 months. </li><li>Total project budget: $0.55M / GIC funding: $0.28M</li></ul>; null,Scaling up antimicrobial textile material manufacturing for use in PPE applications; Project location: Etobicoke, ON<br/>Project partners: Fine Cotton Factory, Microbonds Inc. ; <ul><li>The project will update and scale the manufacturing processes for antimicrobial textiles to achieve mass production of reliable, washable and reusable materials for PPE applications in order to address the critical need in Canada. </li><li>Total project budget: $3.13M / GIC funding: $1.39M</li></ul>; null,Development and Industrial Demonstration of Metal Casting Digital Twin with Integrated AI-Driven Optimization ; Project location: Vancouver, BC<br/>Project partners: Cast Analytics Inc., Empower Operations Corp., Applied CCM, Inc.; <ul><li>Project partners will be working together to develop a software as a service solution for metal casting. The project will create a metal casting digital twin with integrated artificial intelligence driven optimization capabilities that will offer practical and cost-efficient manufacturing process optimization services for the Canadian and international manufacturing sector. These services will help the manufacturing industry improve productivity and product quality and reduce development times and costs.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.24M / GIC funding: $0.1M</li></ul>; null,Driving Advanced Manufacturing Practices Through Supply Chain Resilience Analytics; Project location: Toronto, ON<br/>Project partners: ThinkData Works, Palantir Technologies, Martinrea International; <ul><li>Project partners will collaborate to build a data and analytics solution for the Canadian manufacturing sector. The Supply Chain Resilience Platform will house a global database of trade, trends, supply, and environment information to perform enhanced analysis of supply chain data. This solution will enable manufacturers to leverage predictive modelling and introduce data-driven decision-making capabilities that will transform advanced manufacturing practices and ensure Canadian manufacturers are not left behind through the global restructuring of supply chain practices.</li><li>Total project budget: $8M / GIC funding: $3.55M</li></ul>; null,AI-enabled RoboticHand with Human-level Dexterity for Assembly; Project location: Vancouver, BC<br/>Project partners: Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp., ForceN Inc., Dr. Christopher Doherty M.D. MPH FRCSC (Western University); <ul><li>This project aims to engineer a robotic hand prototype capable of mimicking the mechanical abilities of a human hand for small part assembly and object manipulation. This has the potential to transform the advanced manufacturing industry by allowing for a greater percentage of assembly processes to be automated, addressing a key barrier to the use of robotic technology in complex manufacturing processes. This technology will have broad based applicability across numerous market categories beyond manufacturing and demonstrates Canadian leadership in aspects of Industry 4.0.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.51M / GIC funding: $0.25M</li></ul>; null,Creating an antimicrobial (silver nano particles) fabric; Project location: Mississauga, ON<br/>Project partners: McRae Imaging, Dot Automation, Lumentra Inc.; <ul><li>This  project will develop an advanced manufacturing facility to produce nanomaterial functionalized fabrics for integrated antimicrobial shields and a UV light accessory.</li><li>Total project budget: $4.41M / GIC funding: $1.8M</li></ul>; null,Development and implementation of an autonomous novel bottle/pump insertion solution; Project location:Concord, ON<br/>Project partners: Petra Hydienic Systems International Limited, Sidac Automated Systems Inc.; <ul><li>The purpose of this project is to build new machine vision technology that will be applied to collaborative robots (COBOTs) used for randomized product selection. This new vision computing software, leveraging machine learning, will enable the COBOT to pick up randomized pumps with high speed precision.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.74M / GIC funding: $0.25M</li></ul>; null,Cluster Digital Transformation Program; Project location: Hanover, ON<br/>Project partners: Blue Water Wood Alliance; <ul><li>This project will enable Blue Water Wood Alliance (BWA), a not-for-profit wood manufacturing cluster, to undertake a digital transformation program to help SMEs grow and run their businesses through virtual access to BWA?s programs and activities. Anticipated economic benefits include increased sales and productivity, engagement and suport of remote SMEs, and process improvements for member companies both inside and outside the cluster. The program will also foster collaboration with other organizations involved in the Canadian wood industry, further strengthening the wood manufacturing ecosystem.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.13M / GIC funding: $0.07M</li></ul>; null,Technology Feasibility Demonstration for Stroke Diagnosis; Project location: Waterloo, ON<br/>Project partners: Artificial Intelligence Imaging Sensors (AiimSense Inc.), Sorena Tech Corporation 
; <ul><li>This project will see partners develop a prototype for a portable brain scanner based on electromagnetic imaging and artificial intelligence that will allow for the diagnosis of stroke faster and earlier than is currently possible.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.11M / GIC funding: $0.06M</li></ul>; null,Development of bacterial frameworks for biomanufacturing of industrial and therapeutic products; Project location: Toronto, ON<br/>Project partners: Mediphage Bioceuticals Inc., Ardra Inc.; <ul><li>This project aims to build a platform for rapid construction of framework strains of E. coli that can be readily adopted into commercial production of target products in gene therapy. Ministring DNA (msDNA) is a novel non-viral gene therapy technology that paves the way for personalized, redosable genetic medicine that is safe, durable, and accessible for patients worldwide. The outcomes of this collaboration represent a foundation for the scaled up production of these homegrown innovations, applied to novel products addressing high-demand food industry and biopharmaceutical needs.</li><li>Total project budget : $0.57M / GIC funding: $0.24M</li></ul>; null,High speed temperature measurement for aluminum strip processing; Project location: Calgary, AB<br/>Project partners: Hazelett CASTechnology ULC, Aluminum Valley Society; <ul><li>This project will install and commercialize a new high-speed thin-strip twin belt demonstration/pilot line at a manufacturing facility in Kingston that will produce high quality aluminum alloy sheet at a fraction of the conversion cost and carbon footprint of conventional processes.</li><li>Total project budget: $1.25M / GIC funding: $0.25M</li></ul>; null,Scaling up the manufacturing process for BrainPrint Bioink; Project location: Victoria, BC<br/>Project partners: Axolotl Biosciences, Starfish Medical; <ul><li>This project will use patent pending drug delivery technology to develop a novel, patent pending bioink called BrainPrint which generates reproducible and functional human neural tissues derived from stem cells that function similar to brain tissue. Partnering with Starfish Medical, this project will scale up the production processes associated with manufacturing the bioink, using microfluidic devices, generating new knowledge, and intellectual property related to these advanced manufacturing processes.</li><li>Total project budget: $0.41M / GIC funding: $0.16M</li></ul>; null,Cleanbot; Project location: Aurora, ON<br/>Project partners: Crosswing; <ul><li>This project will manufacture Cleanbot UV and Cleanbot MIST, two next-generation robots  that will deliver targeted UV light to where it is critically needed and a precisely measured spray dose to all common pathogen hotspots. </li><li>Total project budget: $3.2M / GIC funding: $1.6M</li></ul>; null,Producing nanofiber meltblown material; Project location: Waterloo, ON<br/>Project partners: The Big-Nano Corp., Swenco, IPC Technologies dba Prescientx, APC Filtration, Titan Clean Energy Project Corp ; <ul><li>This project will use Big-nano's technology to reduce Canada?s reliance on foreign suppliers for critical nanofiber meltblown material for PPE and air purification filters by developing world-class material, creating a globally competitive cost structure and mass production capacity in Canada.</li><li>Total project budget: $3.53M / GIC funding: $1.76M</li></ul>; null,DPX-COVID-19: Manufacturing and scale up of neutralizing-epitope based synthetic vaccine; Project location: Dartmouth, NS<br/>Project partners: Immunovaccine Technologies Inc. ; <ul><li>This project will aim to establish a complete end-to-end Canadian supply chain for the development and manufacturing of synthetic vaccines allowing the production of large scale quantities of the DPX-COVID-19 vaccine. The production objective of this project is to manufacture 25 million doses per year.</li><li>Total project budget: $5.05M / GIC funding: $2.5M</li></ul>; null}