My Active Snacks is a Toronto-based- snack food start-up expanding the marketing for healthy snack food options. The challenge Support with recipe development and ingredient sourcing to develop a tasty snack puff that meets the strict keto diet requirements. The result Fanshawe College’s Centre for Research and Innovation (CRI) researcher Josie…
Meet Angad and Prabhpahul Singh, co-founders and the brains behind LeanSuite, a software development company that offers lean manufacturing and process improvement solutions for manufacturers and companies in other sectors. The Brampton, Ont.-based company was created to specifically fulfill the needs of small businesses in terms of operations management and…
Ryan Billinger is the Program Manager for the Product Development Exchange (PDx) at George Brown College. His role is to ensure students, industry partners and faculty have all the resources required for successful project execution from the beginning to the end of the project. We asked Ryan some questions so…
The Challenge Simcoe, Ont.-based Meadow Lynn Farms is a mixed farming enterprise that includes cash crop, dairy, CSA market gardens and strawberries. The farm has been family-owned for 73 years. The owners wished to capture a niche market for the thousands of pounds of wasted strawberry seconds (imperfect, under-or over-ripe…
Meet Olivia Uildersma, a Mechanical Engineering Technology – Design & Analysis student at Conestoga College Conestoga Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Olivia made a big difference in helping SMEs grow through Research & Innovation across southern Ontario. Why did you apply to work in Applied Research at your school? What first…
Research has shown that it’s beneficial to talk to plants but wouldn’t it be nice if the plants could talk back? Leveraging support from the Southern Ontario Network for Advanced Manufacturing Innovation (SONAMI), EarthOne Inc. collaborated with Mohawk College’s Additive Manufacturing Innovation Centre (AMIC) applied researchers to give plants a…
For many Canadians, flashbacks to March 2020 conjures images of panic buying and empty grocery store shelves. However, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic affected the food supply chain in other, less obvious ways. During the first wave, Canadian farmers experienced many difficulties hiring temporary foreign workers due to border…
Liliana McIntosh is a recent graduate of the Mechanical Engineering Technology Co-Op program at Niagara College. As a student she worked with SONAMI at Niagara College’s Walker Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre (WAMIC). Currently, Liliana works at WAMIC as a Mechanical Engineering Research Associate. Along with Project Managers, Project Leads and…
Vegan ice cream enthusiasts are flocking to Four All Ice Cream, a Kitchener-based artisanal ice cream brand with a cult following that was dreamed up by entrepreneur Ajoa Mintah. The small-batch ice cream manufacturer places customers at the core of its business and creates natural, local, and mindful ice cream…
Lianna Genovese is a Biomedical Engineering and Health Sciences student at McMaster University and is also working for the McMaster Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI). With SONAMI and MMRI, Lianna helped companies in Southern Ontario de-risk their investment in innovation, turning ideas into product prototypes through state-of-the-art technology and SONAMI’s funding….
