Tag: Agriculture
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What’s on in November.
There are plenty of trade events scheduled across Canada next month, for sectors ranging from aerospace, technology, and human resources. Links and information to these events are below. iTech Conference – “Canada’s leading IT conference & exhibition” covers infrastructure, cloud, security, data centre virtualization, AI, and machine learning. There are two shows this month –…
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A look at vertical farming in Canada.
Vertical farming is an emerging, innovative, and developing industry – with a lot of global growth. Vertical farming is a method of growing crops indoors in vertically stacked layers, set in buildings such as factories, skyscrapers, old mines, and even repurposed shipping containers. Products typically grown and produced include leafy greens, micro greens, and herbs.…
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A look at automation in Canada.
Canada is positioned slightly above the world average in robot density in manufacturing, as per the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). According to Manufacturing Automation magazine, the 2020 World Robotics Report (based on 2019 statistics) ranks Canada 18th in the world for robot density, with 165 units installed per 10,000 employees. Next Generation Manufacturing Canada…
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A who’s who of the WEDC Virtual Trade Venture to Canada.
The WEDC Virtual Trade Venture to Canada starts in exactly two weeks! We’ve been busily preparing for this event by making Canadian connections for our Wisconsin client companies. Below is a list of venture participants; feel free to contact us if you’d like to learn more about them. Arbré Technologies Inc. Established in 2016, Arbré…
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Time to talk food trends for 2021
Nourish Food Marketing released its 2021 Trend Report, and it’s quite the read. Last year’s prognosticators had their 2020 predictions hastily kicked out the door by COVID-19. Nourish Food Marketing has addressed this year’s pandemic-induced shift in work, family life, food production and supply, and looks at which trends might hold, including: A return to…