One of the country’s top entrepreneurship incubators has signed on to offer a series of workshops for local startups and the business community in Sarnia-Lambton. Toronto-based MaRS Innovation is hosting a trio of multi-workshop events at Lambton College’s Suncor Sustainability Centre, starting with a two-parter Nov. 19 and 26 about lean start-up strategies for early … Read More
BioAmber Inc., the operator of one of Sarnia’s newest industrial plants, says the local plant has surpassed its operational targets for the year. “Our third quarter was an exceptional one from an operational standpoint,” said Jean-Francois Huc, the company’s CEO in a release outlining BioAmber’s performance in the period ending September 30, 2015. “The plant … Read More
Lambton College is expected to break ground on two new buildings this spring. “We’re going to have a great opportunity to construct the health building and the athletic fitness centre together,” college president and CEO Judy Morris said in an update to Lambton County council Wednesday. Plans are for the $30-million Nova Chemical Health and … Read More
Lambton College on Friday received the largest single corporate donation in its 49-year history. And the feeling was mutual for Nova Chemicals. The $2 million it donated to the Lambton College Foundation’s Envision Tomorrow Capital campaign was its largest educational investment so far. The money will be used to help fund the construction of a … Read More
Lambton College landed just outside the top 10 in a recent ranking of Canada’s research colleges. The Sarnia school — focused on bio-industrial research as well as instrumentation and control processing, water and wastewater treatment, advanced materials and renewable energy — is 11th on this year’s Research Infosource Inc. top 50 list, up six spots … Read More
The Lambton County community is among the world’s brightest, according to a recently released long list for Intelligent Community of the Year. With feathers in its hat like bio-based chemistry research at the Western University Research Park, entrepreneurship initiatives like The Cube at Lambton College, and social programs like Circles, Lambton County has cracked the … Read More
The CEO of Ubiquity Solar Inc. is optimistic his company will build a plant worth more than $100 million in Sarnia in three years. Ian MacLellan says many details need to be worked out but the Chemical Valley is the logical place to commercialize new technology Ubiquity has developed for the solar energy industry. Ubiquity … Read More
Sarnia ranked high in “business friendliness” in a report released in the spring by fDi (foreign direct investment) Magazine, from the Financial Times. The community ranked eighth in the category of business friendliness for small communities in the magazine’s top 10 American Cities of the Future study. Sarnia was among 37 North American communities with … Read More
