Root Your Forest-Based Business in the Heart of Canada

We Help You Navigate

Guiding forestry and bioeconomy ventures through every stage — connecting you to industry partners, essential regional resources, and scale-up capital.

Connections

Business Development Support

Labs
Testing
Advanced Manufacturing
Marketing Intelligence
Industry Partners
1st Customer
Market Validation
Sector Mentoring

Resources

Natural resources and ecosystem assets

Forest Policy
Fibre Supply
Industry Base
Support Network
Innovation
Market Access

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Growth

Access to Scale Up Funding

Our Forestry-specific accelerator program will help your early-stage business scale quickly through:

Application period opens September 1st, 2026 and closes December 14th, 2026
12 Week Program starting February 1st, 2027
$40k funding
Connections to Industry & Expertise
Office Space & Prototyping Space

Land your growing forestry business in our region and:

Integrate into a mature forestry cluster
Leverage underutilized forest fibre
Access office and R&D space
Connect with stakeholders, investors, & customers

Industry Opportunities

Our forest industry leaders have identified specific areas of opportunity which complement existing operations. Businesses building regional capacity in the following areas can expect to be prioritized for program supports:

Fibre supply chain synchronization: matching information and physical flow from bush to mill

Electrification and automation of harvesting, silviculture, and transportation equipment

Valorization of available residual fibre streams into new product lines

Integration of AI and machine learning into key harvest, transportation, processing steps, e.g. real-time fibre quality feedback, log measure & scaling

Sustainable silviculture treatments, e.g. organic herbicide