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Industrial Ecology


Sorel-Tracy offers investors a most attractive business climate. Its geographical location gives it a significant advantage, given an incomparable access to resources and markets-the U.S. border is only an hour by road, while specialized professional services in Montreal are readily accessible.

As well, Sorel-Tracy has shown extraordinary leadership in environmental matters, a leadership based on exceptional cooperation between big business, SMEs, the city of Sorel-Tracy, and the MRC de Pierre-De Saurel. For example, the Sorel-Tracy region has become the community that leads Canada in recycling industrial waste, along with a recovery rate of household waste above 75%, a rate greater than any other in Quebec.
 
The region offers what is virtually a web of diverse expertise: a cluster of waste-recovery businesses, a large pool of sub-contractors in industrial processing and manufacture, a skilled labour force, research groups in industrial ecology, and specialized educational centres. These organizations and businesses make available to investors an exceptional reservoir of competencies.   

Research support

Sorel-Tracy is unique due to two research and technology transfer centres (with their strong orientation towards eco-industrial applications), a technocentre in industrial ecology, and a BRIQ grant program (Bourse des résidus industriels du Québec):

 

 


  • The Technocentre en écologie industrielle is an ÉCOCARREFOUR, a transfer centre that brings together first-rate partners and guides businesses and communities in their initiatives at the strategic and operational level so as to improve their performance with regard to sustainable development.

 

  • BRIQ has the objective of promoting product development related to recovery of industrial waste. By basing itself on the principle that what is waste for one can become a primary resource for others, BRIQ provides a data base service for businesses that hopes to improve their management of residual materials. This enables them to establish exchanges that lead to diverting significant amounts of residual material away from landfills. A fine example of a concrete application of industrial ecology!