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Industrial Bioproducts Value Chain Roundtable

Bioproducts provide an opportunity to transform agricultural crops and non-food biomass (for example, straw, flax and hemp stems, purpose-grown crops) into high-value products such as bio-based chemicals, biomaterials, biofuels, and bioenergy. Bioproducts support innovation and enhance the competitiveness of Canadian farmers, help address environmental issues and reduce Canada's overall greenhouse gas footprint, and create clean jobs across the Canadian economy in research and development, agriculture, and value-added manufacturing.

Contact us

If you have any questions or would like more information, please email us at aafc.roundtable-tableronde.aac@canada.ca.

Working groups

Biomass Quality and Supply
Regulations and Policy
BioContent Canada
Investment Readiness

Upcoming meeting

The next Roundtable meeting will take place in 2020.

Meeting summary

Members

Co-chairs

Murray McLaughlin – BioIndustrial Innovation Centre
Matt Parry – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Industry

Steve Fabijanski – Agrisoma
Mike Cey – AgWest Bio
Anne Waddell – BioIndustrial Innovation Centre
Meaghan Seagrave – BioAtlantech
Jennifer Green – Canadian Biogas Association
Ron Boch – BIOTECanada
Ron Bonnett – Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Stu Porter – Renewable Industries Canada
Doug McCartney – Composites Innovation Centre
Ian Affleck – CropLife Canada
Jim Grey – IGPC Ethanol Inc.
Paul Antoniadis – Good Natured Products Inc.
Tracey Maconachie – Life Science Association of Manitoba
Terry McIntyre – Metagenomics enabled discovery of applications and processes of the Arctic Microbiome (MEDAPAM)
Pete Desai – Mustard 21 Inc.
Tyler Whale – Ontario Agri-Food Technologies
Don McCabe – Ontario Federation of Agriculture
Rory Francis – PEI BioAlliance
Salah Zoghlami – Producteurs de grains du Québec
Jeff Schmalz – Oilseed Innovation Partners
Samuel Kanes – BioIndustrial Innovation Centre
Hamdy Khalil – Woodbridge Foams

Provincial governments

Hong Qi – Alberta Agriculture and Forestry
Steve Price – Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions
Colleen Colwell – British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture
Chris Dickie – New Brunswick Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries
Steven Tattrie – Nova Scotia Agriculture
Jeff Kraynyk – Manitoba Department of Agriculture
France Brunelle – Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec
Kevin Ferraro – Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Rural Affairs
Glenn Payne – Saskatchewan Agriculture

Federal government

Nathalie Durand – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Carla St. Croix – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Benoit Girard – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Cindy Pearson – Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Sabrina Kim – Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Charlene Wheatley – Global Affairs Canada
Emilie Bergeron – Global Affairs Canada
Sonia Martin – National Research Council
Michael Barré – National Research Council
Alex MacLeod – Natural Resources Canada
Chanchoura Schmoll – Natural Resources Canada
Russell Girard – Sustainable Development Technology Canada

Reports

Inventory, Case Studies & Recommendations: Agricultural Industrial Bioproducts Clusters

This report identified international best practices for creating agricultural biomass supply chain clusters and used them as a model for forming regional biomass supply chain clusters in Canada.
Author: The Agricola Group – Strategy and Communications
Date: June 2015

Roundtable research reports are available by special request by writing to: aafc.roundtable-tableronde.aac@canada.ca. The Industry Engagement Division reserves the right to withhold documents that contain sensitive or proprietary information.