Top 10 Reasons to Locate in the OntarioEast Wood Centre & Eco-Industrial Park

1. A responsible choice: environmentally sound business practices in a supportive, like-minded business community

2. A stable place for business: a widely shared vision that includes prosperous enterprise

3. Land to suit: available light/medium industrial land in lots of varying sizes

4. A firm business footing: the support of mentoring entrepreneurs and researchers whose projects are relevant to business

5. Operating cost savings: shared support system and service costs

6. Easy market access: superb road, rail and sea routes to national and international markets

7. Plentiful raw materials: more than 1-million cubic metres of wood, acess to certified forests

8. Family-oriented communities: reasonable housing prices, life at a rural pace and short drives to major cities in Ontario and Québec

9. Infrastructure in place: from water and wastewater infrastructure to roads, from supportive local companies to friendly local government

10.Recreation options: a wide range of land and water recreation options in a land with a rich culture and heritage

Call today

If your company is involved in producing value-added wood products,discover the opportunities at the Ontario East Wood Centre & Eco-Industrial Park. Call Russell Trivett at 1-866-848-9099, today—and lookover our web site, www.WoodCentre.ca

Township of Edwardsburgh/Cardinal18 Centre Street, P.O. Box 129, Spencerville, ON K0E 1X0Tel: 613-658-3055 or 1-866-848-9099Email: info@woodcentre.ca

www.WoodCentre.ca

Imagine an environmentally attuned complex designed for research, development and demonstration and the

manufacture of value-added wood products destined fordomestic and international markets.

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A Profitable Union of Industry, Research,Government

The opportunityA company involved in manufacturing value-added wood products will locatehere for good reasons:

• A stable business environment, thanks to the strength of a shared guiding vision and an integrated research focus

• High-quality, light/medium industrial land in lots of .5 to 10 or more acres, with water and wastewater infrastructure, local machine and welding, and trucking and container facilities

• Reduced operating costs, due to shared support systems and services costs, and naturally arising inter-company synergies

• Easy access to national and international markets

• Adjacent to North America’s largest contiguous mixed hardwood forest

• Access to certified forests

• Enviable quality-of-life in communities with a culture of their own based on a rich heritage, plus a wide range of recreation and housing options

• Convenient access to Toronto, Ottawa and Montréal from the security of a rural setting

• Support from researchers in government, industry and academic institutions in Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston, Montréal and Syracuse

• Support from mentoring entrepreneurs

• Nearby established enterprises, including GreenField Ethanol’s Johnstown plant and a development-friendly local government

Introducing the Ontario East Wood Centre

Environmental insightThe Ontario East Wood Centre has been designed to help businesses employ environmentally and economically sound practices as they manufacturevalue-added wood products. Businesses will worktogether here, to develop mutually beneficial processes and products with the support of research and government organizations.

Value-added wood productsProcessing makes wood products about six times as valuable, on average. Value-added wood productsinclude furniture and boards—and also foods, health products and bio-products. Some 59,000 people work in Ontario’s value-added wood industry.

Mutually beneficial processes, productsWood processing by-products can be used to generate energy.Energy and other wood processing outputs feed biorefining. Biorefining creates materials for use inchemicals, bioplastics, building materials,auto parts and pilot plants. By-productscan feed processing and biorefining.

Critical supportSupporters of the Ontario East WoodCentre & Eco-Industrial Park conceptinclude:

• Eastern Ontario Model Forest

• Township of Edwardsburgh/Cardinal

• Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources

• United Counties of Leeds and Grenville

• Port of Prescott

• Canadian Forest Service

• University of Toronto, Faculty of Forestry

• Eastern Ontario Development Program

• National Research Council Canada

The locationThe Ontario East Wood Centre & Eco-Industrial Park will run northfrom County Road 2 on about 50 acres of land within the 370-acreEdwardsburgh/Cardinal Industrial Park, adjacent to the Port of Prescott.

“This is a potent combination in today’smarketplace when people are concernedabout the economy, the environment, climate change and our quality of life.”

Jim McCready, President, Eastern Ontario Model Forest.

Top 10 Reasons to Locate in the OntarioEast Wood Centre & Eco-Industrial Park

1. A responsible choice: environmentally sound business practices in a supportive, like-minded business community

2. A stable place for business: a widely shared vision that includes prosperous enterprise

3. Land to suit: available light/medium industrial land in lots of varying sizes

4. A firm business footing: the support of mentoring entrepreneurs and researchers whose projects are relevant to business

5. Operating cost savings: shared support system and service costs

6. Easy market access: superb road, rail and sea routes to national and international markets

7. Plentiful raw materials: more than 1-million cubic metres of wood, acess to certified forests

8. Family-oriented communities: reasonable housing prices, life at a rural pace and short drives to major cities in Ontario and Québec

9. Infrastructure in place: from water and wastewater infrastructure to roads, from supportive local companies to friendly local government

10.Recreation options: a wide range of land and water recreation options in a land with a rich culture and heritage

Call today

If your company is involved in producing value-added wood products,discover the opportunities at the Ontario East Wood Centre & Eco-Industrial Park. Call Russell Trivett at 1-866-848-9099, today—and lookover our web site, www.WoodCentre.ca

Township of Edwardsburgh/Cardinal18 Centre Street, P.O. Box 129, Spencerville, ON K0E 1X0Tel: 613-658-3055 or 1-866-848-9099Email: info@woodcentre.ca

www.WoodCentre.ca

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manufacture of value-added wood products destined fordomestic and international markets.

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