Your Contacts:
W.T. (Bill) Elliot, Director, Business Development

(519) 747-2541 x403
Catharine Gerhard, Business Development Officer

(519) 747-2541 x407

Manufacturing has been at the heart of Waterloo Region’s success from its early days. From buttons to rubber to solar power applications, manufacturing in the Region has been, and continues to be, characterized by reinvention. Today, Canada’s Technology Triangle is the most diverse and perhaps the most dynamic concentration of advanced manufacturing in Canada. With over 1200 manufacturing operations employing over 61,000 people, you are good company in Waterloo Region. Advanced manufacturing operations include 3L Filters, AMI Semiconductors, Automation Tooling Systems (ATS), Babcock & Wilcox, Brock Solutions, Canadian General-Tower, COM DEV, Eclipse Automation, Fischer Canada, Leoni Elocab, Meikle Automation, NCR, Ontario Drive & Gear (ODG), Research In Motion (RIM), Rockwell Automation, Siemens, Strite Industries, and Teleflex GFI.

As of 2004, some 26.3% of the area’s total labour force was in employed in manufacturing as compared to 16.5% in Ontario and 13.9% in Canada. It is a remarkable concentration of talent.

Manufacturers in the Region are on the forefront of creating and integrating leading edge technologies, materials and advanced processes including aerospace and satellite products, intelligent systems and controls, interfaces and integration systems, machine vision and sensor devices, rapid prototyping and robotics. Manufacturers in the Region have been particularly successful at being highly responsive to niche needs.