The Road to 2030
Ontario is on its way to becoming a global leader in advanced wood-based materials & building solutions. We’ve compiled an overview of Ontario’s opportunities in forest bio-refining from now through 2030.
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Wood Fibre Insulation in Ontario: A Roadmap for Market Growth and Adoption
The future of building isn’t just about reducing impact—it’s about revaluing our materials. Wood fibre insulation turns residuals into performance, and waste into opportunity.
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Advanced Forest-Based Biomaterials Roadmap
Ontario’s vast forest resource is emerging as an unprecedented opportunity for low-carbon building materials. Since mass timber can provide a 70% reduction in embodied carbon along with durability and speed, our forestry sector is well positioned to support Ontario’s building sector beyond timber.
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Ontario Wood Biofuel Roadmap
A significant portion of Ontario’s allowable forest harvest, including unmarketable wood, represents an immediate, sustainable source of feedstocks that can be used to produce low carbon renewable liquid fuels.
CRIBE with the Canadian Fuels Association have written a report detailing this opportunity.
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Unlocking Hardwood Potential: Investment Opportunities in the Thunder Bay Region
The Thunder Bay region has a substantial opportunity to attract investment in the bioeconomy due to an underutilized supply of poplar and birch.
With support from CRIBE, our partner Silvacom has conducted a study investigating the potential of this opportunity.
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Biochar Primer and Market Assessment
Biochar is consistently touted as a potential high-volume product that could be used to diversify Canada’s forest product industry.
This market assessment identifies the ways in which biochar can be added onto existing forest operations, or the roles biochar production might play in future biorefineries.
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Biofuels Energy Market Study
Unmarketable wood within Northwestern Ontario constitutes an untapped resource with significant potential for biofuels production.
This study aims to create a business and market case for establishing a forest biomass-based biofuels facility in Northwestern Ontario, enabling industrial decarbonization and regional economic growth through sustainable fuel production.
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Thunder Bay Wood Energy Roadmap
Northern Ontario has the wood. Ontario needs the power. This Roadmap makes the case that connecting those two facts with a long-term commitment is one of the smartest energy investments the province can make right now.
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Fibre Utilization Pathways – Northern Ontario
The province of Ontario has an abundance of available fibre that is currently underutilized. There is an opportunity to put wood to work, with close to 16 million m3 of merchantable material and an additional 6 million m3 of unmerchantable available.
This roadmap aims to support the current sawmill industry to find new markets or use for residual sawmill material within Ontario and to find product solutions for low grade hardwood fibre, with the goal of making the full forest work.
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Unlocking Value in Forest Biomass: Opportunities in South-Central Ontario
South-Central Ontario is ready, willing and able to help investors prosper. Here’s how to get started.
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Abundant High Value Wood Fibre Supply
Ontario boasts more than 71 million hectares of forest land, roughly 2% of the world’s forest resources. Forty percent of Ontario’s forests are managed public forests which are managed through our world-class management framework. This framework mandates long-term sustainability, the maintenance of ecosystem values and processes, public consultation and accountability.
Want to learn more about Ontario’s wood fibre supply and forest composition?
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Existing Forest Sector Infrastructure
For generations, the forest industry has been an important driving force of Ontario’s economy. Our forest sector infrastructure consists of the logging, wood products manufacturing, and the paper and allied industries. Experienced supply and service firms support each of these sectors.
Learn more about Ontario’s existing infrastructure on the ForestEDGE
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Research Capacity
Ontario is home to a robust ecosystem of research institutes, universities and colleges working at the forefront of research & development for forest-based products.
Several of these research organizations are a part of our collaboration network, Nextfor.
Partnerships
Ontario’s sustainably harvested forest resources provide low-carbon solutions for heavy industry and other key sectors. Several of these strong, cross-sectoral relationships have been developed through our collaboration network, Nextfor.
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Skilled Workforce
Ontario’s long-established forest industry has created and sustained a highly skilled and knowledgeable workforce. The province also boasts a robust network of secondary mechanical, civil, and trades companies that have supported the forest and mining industry for generations.
Strategically Located
Ontario is strategically located next door to the world’s largest economy. In 2018, Ontario exported almost $6.5 billion (CAD) in forest products to the United States, accounting for more than 96% of the province’s total wood product exports. But Ontario’s opportunity doesn’t end at the U.S. border. In 2018, Ontario exported more than $6.7 billion (CAD) in exports worldwide.
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