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[av_heading heading='We’ve added to our team!' tag='h1' style='' size='' subheading_active='' subheading_size='15' padding='10' color='' custom_font=''][/av_heading] [av_textblock size='' font_color='' color=''] We want to welcome Ryan Tabone to the Bluewater Wood Alliance. He fills the new role of Program Coordinator/Advisor and started this week at BWA. Ryan comes with a nice mix of education and experience in the wood industry. He is a Conestoga Wood Program alumni and employed with Krug for the past 12 years. At Krug, he first worked as a CNC operator, and more recently as a product engineer technologist. He is also involved with the PAC committee at Conestoga College. This marks a significant...
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After six months of working with various industry sector leaders, academia, and other partners, the Bluewater Wood Alliance is representing the value-added wood products sector in the biggest manufacturing supercluster in Canada! Navdeep Bains, Canada’s Minister for Innovation, Science and Economic Development, announced Thursday that the Next Generation Manufacturing Supercluster was one of the successful bids. What this means for our wood products manufacturing industry, is that we are at the table with other big industries in Canada like automotive, aerospace, IT, robotics, and other major sectors. Our profile is now raised higher, along with the importance of our wood products...
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After six months of working with various industry sector leaders, academia, and other partners, the Bluewater Wood Alliance is representing the value-added wood products sector in the biggest manufacturing supercluster in Canada! Navdeep Bains, Canada’s Minister for Innovation, Science and Economic Development, announced Thursday that the Next Generation Manufacturing Supercluster was one of the successful bids. What this means for our wood products manufacturing industry, is that we are at the table with other big industries in Canada like automotive, aerospace, IT, robotics, and other major sectors. Our profile is now raised higher, along with the importance of our wood...
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Cluster organizations are the centre of cluster development in practice March 08, 2017 In Working Paper 26, Clusters in Ontario, the Institute advocated for a bottom-up (i.e., firm-led) approach to cluster development. However, what does this look like on the ground? Who takes charge of this work? The answer: cluster organizations. We look at three examples of these organizations based in Ontario and explain how organizations like these will foster the growth the province’s clusters need. What is a cluster organization? A cluster organization focuses on developing cluster initiatives to achieve objectives such as building a cluster identity, strategy and...
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As many members and followers of the Bluewater Wood Alliance may be aware, the BWA recently returned from an export development exercise representing seven Southwestern Ontario wood manufacturers at Index 2013, a major trade show in Dubai (UAE). Read on for details and pictures! As many members and followers of the Bluewater Wood Alliance may be aware, the BWA recently returned from an export development exercise representing seven Southwestern Ontario wood manufacturers at Index 2013, a major trade show in Dubai (UAE), as a result of a research project conducted in partnership with Laurier University for export development, in an...
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After many months of planning and preparation, 7 BWA companies will be represented at the Index 2013 trade show in Dubai UAE. Read on for details of the latest press release! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ONTARIO WOOD CLUSTER DEVELOPING NEW EXPORT MARKETS May 8, 2013 Walkerton, Ont. – Bluewater Wood Alliance Inc. (BWA) is representing seven Southwestern Ontario wood manufacturers at Index 2013, a major trade show in Dubai (UAE), in an effort to develop new export markets for value-added Ontario wood products. For wood manufacturing companies in Southwestern Ontario, this is a huge opportunity that they could not otherwise...
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Bogdon & Gross hosted BWA’s April Plant Tour Focus Group with an exercise for Continuous Improvement! Read on to learn more! The Bluewater Wood Alliance conducts regular facilitated plant tour focus groups where members get to see and experience another wood manufacturing operations while also focusing on a challenge that the host is experiencing to drive waste out of their process. These events begin with a review of Lean Principles, the Value Stream Map, and how they apply to the various wastes in production and some of the Lean Tools used to reduce that waste. This is followed by a...
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It is nice to have the media on our side and help the BWA with its message. Thank-you to Adam Hofmann for representing BWA. Read on! Here is the link: http://www.woodworkingcanada.com/r5/showkiosk.asp?listing_id=4585894Alliance to focus on growth, member services At a Bluewater Wood Alliance Networking Meeting. The Bluewater Wood Alliance, a cluster of woodworking companies and suppliers in Midwestern Ontario, has its sights firmly set on growing the organization. Formed two years ago, the alliance was designed to see if competitors could work together for the good of all members and to strengthen and promote economic growth and sustainability in the local...
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The Bluewater Wood Alliance was presented with a special award at the Wood Manufacturing Council Annual Awards banquet on October 3 in Ottawa. Ottawa, October 3, 2012 – The Wood Manufacturing Council annually gives awards to recognize exemplary activities in the area of human resources development. This year, one of the awards was given to the Bluewater Wood Alliance in recognition of the work done to promote the establishment of the WoodLINKS program in two high schools in the Bluewater District School Board. WoodLINKS is a two-year program that teaches the fundamentals of industrial woodworking to students who are interested in pursuing a...
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Bernie McGlynn Lumber helps local schools with wood for shop projects. Mildmay, Ont. – Bernie McGlynn Lumber, and division South Bruce Flooring, in Mildmay, Ont. recently donated a large amount of hard- and softwood for use in school projects to a number of high schools in the Grey – Bruce – Huron area. This wood is being used by shop classes in schools that offer the WoodLINKS program, which provides two years of training for careers in the furniture, cabinet and millwork industries. McGlynn has also donated wood to shop programs in the Catholic school board. According to South Bruce...
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