EMC collaborates with the top names in Canadian manufacturing.

Collaboration is at the core of everything we do at EMC. That's why, when we need support, we partner with some of Canada's leading organizations across a broad range of industries. These experts help us provide Canadian manufacturers with the highest level of support, guidance, and resources, and keep our activities modern and effective. We pride ourselves in building strong relationships with others, and maintain one of the largest manufacturing networks in North America.

Partners

Our Partners

If you're looking to join Canada's largest, most reputable manufacturing network, a partnership with EMC is right for you. Work and grow alongside the nation's manufacturing leaders, build life-long relationships with a diverse variety of businesses, and promote your organization's services throughout the entire Canadian manufacturing sector. Maintaining a strong manufacturing community is our greatest goal, and we can’t do it without your help.

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We are a different kind of bank. We are BDC, the Business Development Bank of Canada and the financial institution devoted to Canadian entrepreneurs.

With 100,000 clients across Canada, BDC helps create and develop strong Canadian businesses through financing, advisory services and capital, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.

- We support entrepreneurs in all industries and at all stages of development from business centres across Canada and online at bdc.ca.
- We’re committed to the long-term success of Canadian entrepreneurs and we understand that a business is more than just dollars and cents.
- We complement the role played by private-sector financial institutions and have been serving Canadian entrepreneurs since 1944.
- We are a financially sustainable Crown corporation and we operate at arm’s length from our sole shareholder, the Government of Canada.

Visit our website below to learn more about BDC's solutions and resources specifically designed for Canadian manufacturers.

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Business Development Bank of Canada

Empowering a nation of dreamers and doers to build a better tomorrow for all.

The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC) is a national, non-profit organization focused on addressing human resource issues facing agricultural businesses across Canada.

The Council represents farming in all its forms: raising traditional and non-traditional livestock; producing, cultivating, growing, harvesting or collecting conventional and non-conventional agriculture commodities; and any practices performed as an integral part of an agricultural operation. 


The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council is a national, non-profit organization focused on addressing human resource issues facing agricultural businesses across Canada.

Canadian Agriculture Human Resource Council

The Canadian Council for Aviation and Aerospace (CCAA) is the only national association in the country dedicated to attracting and developing workers with the skills the Canadian aviation and aerospace industry needs to meet the demands of the current and future workplace.

The Canadian Council for Aviation and Aerospace (CCAA) is dedicated to help industry attract and develop workers with the skills the Canadian aviation and aerospace industry needs to meet the demands of the current and future workplace.

Canadian Council for Aviation & Aerospace

BioTalent Canada supports the people behind life-changing science. Trusted as the go-to source for labour market intelligence, BioTalent Canada guides bio-economy stakeholders with evidence-based data and industry-driven standards. BioTalent Canada is focused on igniting the industry’s brainpower, bridging the gap between job-ready talent and employers, and ensuring the long-term agility, resiliency, and sustainability of one of Canada’s most vital sectors.  

We strengthen Canada’s bio-economy by providing valuable, evidence-based labour market information and the best job-ready human resources available.

BioTalent Canada

NGen is the industry-led, non-profit organization leading Canada’s Global Innovation Cluster for Advanced Manufacturing. One of five national networks supported by Canada's ambitious Global Innovation Clusters Initiative.
We are founded on the principle that digital transformation in advanced manufacturing will enrich the lives of Canadians, delivering better products and good jobs while generating the economic growth essential to a better future.

NGen

Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC)

New Brunswick Community College

Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

Province of British Columbia

Holland College

CareersNOW

Province of Ontario

Magnet

Simon Fraser University

Employment and Social Development Canada

McMaster University

Information and Communications Technology Council

Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration and the Workplace Education Initiative 

### **Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration**

The Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration helps people prepare for job opportunities and build the skills they need. We promote safe work environments and help employers and employees know their rights and responsibilities.
The department works with partners and other levels of government to support people immigrating to Nova Scotia. We provide programs to help newcomers. We also provide career information, employment services and learning programs that support the labour market.

**More Information:**
[https://beta.novascotia.ca/contact/labour-skills-and-immigration](url)


### **Workplace education initiative**

The Workplace Education Initiative (WEI) provides business skills training for working Nova Scotians. This training enhances individuals’ workplace skills and supports businesses and organizations to be more successful, open to change and ready for growth. This program is offered by the Department of Labour, Skills & Immigration (LSI) in partnership with business, industry, and community organizations. It is primarily funded by the Government of Canada through the Canada–Nova Scotia Workforce Development Agreement (WDA).

**More Information:**
[https://novascotia.ca/lae/workplace-education/docs/WEI-Info-from-Policy-Manual.pdf](url)

Government of Nova Scotia

Centre of Excellence 

Future Skills Centre

GSJ & Co is a leading national food law firm, which services clients of all sizes in Canada and around the world at every stage of the food value chain.  The firm provides exceptional advice and thought leadership when clients are faced with complex legal issues, relying on its significant knowledge and experience with Canada’s food law regulatory regime and commercial norms.

G.S. Jameson & Company 

Manufacturing Masters Partner

Helping organizations capture and share best practice.

Mitchell Industries


With more than 30 years in the industry, our holistic approach to end-to-end energy management delivers the highest value to our clients. ECNG provides:

**Industry Intelligence**

The perfect balance of smart people working with solid data enables us to always maintain our leadership position.

**Unique Service Offering**

Extensive range of expertise that encompasses every aspect of the energy supply chain enables us to deliver the best solutions and support to clients.

**Dedicated Client Service**

Our dedicated account managers ensure service of the highest quality – our clients love us and stick with us.

**Systems and Reporting**

Our technology processes are tailored to the specific needs of the energy management industry.


Our holistic approach to end-to-end energy management delivers the highest value

We are ECNG Energy Group
Canada's largest and longest standing provider of energy management solutions for commercial, industrial and institutional markets.

ECNG Energy

Western Union pioneered the idea of moving money around the world and has been connecting people globally for over 164 years. As one of the world’s leading providers of cross-border business payments, Western Union Business Solutions is transforming how businesses can expand globally through one of the largest and most diverse payment networks in the world.

Western Union

Through its strategic platform brand, WebWSIT provides easy to use interactive multimedia courses to industrial, commercial and service sectors of the Canadian workplace. Together with worker knowledge retention and validation tests and tools, it provides complete record management of training required, re-certifications, as well as incidents and accidents. WebWSIT offers an entire suite of Health & Safety Courses designed specifically for the manufacturing sector.

WebWSIT Limited is an ALL Canadian designer, developer, and deliverer of web-based on-line Health & Safety Training and Due Diligence systems.

WebWSIT Limited

We can help you ‘see’ the hidden waste, provide practical solutions to reduce or eliminate it and then optimize the time you have for improved productivity and efficiency. Visualiz delivers Professional Development Workshops and Keynote & Public Speaking Presentations as well as Facilitation & Consulting Services for businesses in the areas of organizational effectiveness, process improvement and change management.

Visualiiz is focused on helping organizations be more productive. 

Visualiiz

We are a consulting and training company serving North American corporations in manufacturing and service industries. Our team's expertise in Lean Enterprise, Six Sigma, Team Building, Leadership Development and Coaching give us the ability to assist you need to get the results you want.  Our goal is to create self sustaining capabilities within your organization.  

Value Stream Solutions Inc. was founded on the premise that companies should have the skills and abilities to continuously improve their performance year over year by engaging People, focusing on the Process, and delivering superior Product to their markets. 

Value Stream Solutions Inc.

Our solutions combine hardware, software, and services, covering a wide range of needs - from energy efficiency, productivity and uninterrupted supply to safety, comfort and communication. Schneider Electric products, solutions and services are present at every link in the energy value chain for building, infrastructure, industrial and residential markets. We help our customers ensure their energy performance and comfort while at the same time taking into account environmental and efficiency issues. A major focus at Schneider Electric is also on innovation. We devote more than 5% of global sales to research and development.

With 112,000 employees world-wide and operations in 190 countries, Schneider Electric is the world's power and control specialist.

Schneider Electric

We train your order desk or inside sales team to increase revenue by up-selling and cross-selling additional products, services and warranties. We also help companies retain clients. Reducing customer turnover by 5% can increase profits by 25-125%. We train your customer service team on the skills needed to calm irate customers and improve client loyalty. Our lead trainer, Mike Aoki was chosen by ICMI.com as one of the "Top 25 Thought Leaders for 2021." He was awarded the Canadian Institute of Management's Quality Service Award for leadership. He also co-authored the Amazon #1 bestselling leadership book, "Called to Action."

Reflective Keynotes Inc. provides training to help manufacturers improve their sales and customer service results. 

Reflective Keynotes Inc.

With a hands on, roll up your sleeves approach believing there is always a solution to a problem, the team has been successful in meeting the needs of employers with services in Human Resource Policy & Procedure, Training, & Employee Development, Coaching & Facilitation, Health & Safety and Local & Foreign Recruitment.

Striving to empower business and the people who drive it, the PHRS team has brought practical solutions to challenges facing manufacturers for over 25 years.  

Practical HR Solutions Inc.

As experts in government funding, we build strong relationships with our clients and leverage our experience across sectors to help clients through every step of the government funding process. With our turnkey solution for maximizing the return on investment through government programs, we can help companies achieve their funding goals by taking the burden of funding identification, application, audit and tracking off of them so they can spend more time building their businesses. Our top priority is to fulfill the client's needs through the delivery of service excellence, professional expertise and reliability, the preservation of the utmost integrity, and the passionate encouragement of teamwork and employee development.

A full-service provider for government funding with a proven track record successfully claiming SR&ED tax credits and other government grants and loans.

Northbridge Consultants

As a Practice-Centred Business, we strive to be creative in our solutions, focusing on delivering the highest quality product for our clients, while meeting their business objectives. As an employee-owned company, MTE offers value-added civil, environmental and structural capabilities to its clients. The company employs more than 220 engineers, scientists, technologists, technicians, toxicologists and specialized support personnel.

MTE enhances the value of our clients' projects by providing innovative solutions and management expertise in a personal, cost effective and timely manner. 

As Ministry of Labour accredited providers and consistently one of the top safety training companies in Ontario, we take immense pride in delivering the best discussion based training courses our clients are looking for. Our talented team of Trainers and Consultants possess a wide variety of professional backgrounds ensuring firsthand knowledge and experience pertaining to the course subject matter. Not to mention our team of Account Managers which provide the highest quality of customer service in the industry. Safety compliance is effortless as a client of ours, because we care about safety and we care about you.

Industrial Safety Trainers Inc has provided health and safety training and consulting across Canada for almost 20 years. 

Industrial Safety Trainers Inc.

Our unique approach works because any successful long-term sustainable change begins with a shift in mindset. First, we develop a leadership mindset then we work with teams to apply that shift in thinking to the real-world business challenges your team or organization faces. The result is a self-sustainable solution to the challenge. And because the shift in mindset stays with your business, our interactive and practical approach allows your teams to solve the challenges of today as well as tomorrow. Our work has many applications including building cohesive leadership teams, strategy development and implementation, change management, workplace innovation, workplace equity, leadership development, and solving unique business challenges. All our work is designed around your challenges and goals. And we deliver in a way that works for you – through video conferencing, in person, or a combination of the two. 

Innate Leaders is a management consultancy with a strong, global track record with organizations such as NASA, Microsoft, Coca Cola, Bayer and Lockheed Martin. 

Innate Leaders

Our efficient approach to problem solving has proven effective in reducing workplace injuries and their associated costs in industrial and office environments. Ergonomic Consultants at ERGO Inc. are certified, have strong academic qualifications, as well as professional experience and skills in a broad range of areas related to kinesiology, biomechanics/physiology, human performance, safety, business, research and training.

ERGO Inc. is an International Ergonomics & Safety Consulting Training firm that has been providing companies with practical solutions to real problems for over a decade.

ERGO Inc.

 As a Certified Psychological Health and Safety Advisor she has worked with organizations from a wide variety of industries across the country, changing the way thousands of Canadians think about mental health.  Mental health impacts every workplace.  With a proactive approach to employee wellness and organizational culture, improved engagement and reduced absenteeism and turnover are just a few of the benefits.  Elizabeth offers customizable training packages to meet the unique needs of your team, leaders and organization on topics that will lay a solid foundation for a psychologically safe and healthy work environment for one and all.  As the owner of eastern Canada’s largest public provider of standardized mental health training such as the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s Mental Health First Aid program, Elizabeth’s service menu is one-stop shopping for your organization’s mental health education needs.

Elizabeth Eldridge helps people help people. 

Elizabeth Eldridge

He helps his clients – busy Leaders and professionals – carve out more time for the priorities that will most help them grow and succeed by raising the bar in how they make choices, achieve focus and stay resilient. In business for over 20 years, his clients include Seneca College, University of Toronto, Laurier, Western University, BMO, Scotiabank, Bank of Canada, Roche, Bayer, 3M, Enbridge, The Globe & Mail, Toronto Hydro, PwC and many more.

Doug is an Adler Certified Professional Coach and Personal Productivity Expert who thrives on provoking individuals and teams into discovering a better way to work and a better way to live. 

Doug Heidebrecht

With headquarters in British Columbia, we help industrial organizations and manufacturing innovators across North America generate more leads, increase conversion rates and uncover growth opportunities through targeted digital solutions. With over 35 years of combined experience, our team's passion is providing technical strategies and marketing expertise, so our clients can focus on the big picture.

BlackBean is a full service B2B industrial marketing and development agency. 

BlackBean Marketing

Having recently acquired many of the CLB Media properties, Annex now includes more than 50 business-to-business publications, web sites and a host of marketing opportunities and services including custom publishing, business lists, research, web development and industry events. EMC members are encouraged to sign up for free subscriptions to Annex publications such as: PEM Plant Engineering & Maintenance, Design Product News, Canadian Electronics, Manufacturing Automation, and Canadian Occupational Safety. Visit: [www.annexweb.com](https://www.annexweb.com) to subscribe.

Annex Publishing & Printing is one of Canada's leading providers of information and marketing services to business professionals in a wide range of industry sectors.

EMC collaborates with the top names in Canadian manufacturing.

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