Industrial Bioproducts
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The Canadian and Provincial governments' recent choice of Sarnia-Lambton as the site of The
Bioindustrial Innovation Centre of Canada reaffirms our area's leadership in the field of industrial
bioproducts. The Bioindustrial Innovation Centre is located at The Research Park in Sarnia-Lambton
The Park, run by the University of Western Ontario, is augmented by world-class college research
facilities.
Sarnia-Lambton is an active participant in the Ontario Chemistry Value Chain Initiative. Made up of
companies, associations, and individuals representing the chemistry value chain, this group is
working to established Ontario as a global leader in innovative, environmentally sustainable,
chemical products, technologies and processes.
Companies are taking advantage of Sarnia-Lambton's strengths in the development of industrial
bioproducts. Suncor Energy's $120 million ethanol facility produces 200 million liters of ethanol
annually. Plans are already underway for Suncor to double the capacity of this plant. Click here for media release.
Note - Suncor announced on January 09, 2009, that this project has been placed on hold for 12 months, with construction to resume in early 2010, with an expected completion date in the first quarter of 2011. The company stressed that this was a deferral, not a cancellation.
Northern Ethanol is planning to begin construction on a new 400 million litres a year ethanol facility
in Sarnia-Lambton in 2008.
Sarnia-Lambton is a national and international leader in refining and petrochemical products.
Combined with the talent of world-class engineers, the infrastructure used to make these products is
also used for industrial bioprocesses.
Sarnia-Lambton is an important agriculture centre, and an Ontario leader in the production of
soybean, wheat and corn, which can be used in the production of grain-based fuels and chemicals.
As technology evolves, potential exists for cellulose-based chemicals.
Southwestern Ontario Bioproducts Innovation Network (SOBIN) is dedicated to advancing new bio-
products and finding new uses for bio-based feedstocks in manufacturing primarily in the
automotive, chemical and energy industries.
Located on the automotive corridor between Toronto and Detroit, Sarnia-Lambton is home to five
automotive parts suppliers and 25 automotive assembly plants are within a 3-hour driving radius of
the region. Given the proximity between feedstock, industry, and the presence of The Research Park
in Sarnia-Lambton, there is great potential for the development of bioplastics and biocomposites in
the production of automotive parts.
