CRIBE is Ontario’s leading forest-based innovation accelerator.
Project Support
Looking to grow your idea?
CRIBE facilitates the deployment of first-in-kind, commercial-ready forest-based technologies and products
Nextfor
Looking to collaborate?
CRIBE’s collaboration network brings together innovators across sectors to build value and drive innovation within Ontario’s forest bio-economy
ForestEDGE
Looking to learn about Ontario’s wood supply?
CRIBE’s geospatial tools inform and support economic development opportunities utilizing Ontario’s forest resources
CRIBE supports and develops a sustainable, profitable provincial forest bio-economy. We bring together researchers, the forest sector and end users to create and commercialize innovative forest-based, low-carbon solutions. We are an independent, non-profit corporation.
Our four strategic priorities:
Demonstrate solutions by supporting research, development and pilot projects.
Lead economic development and a culture of innovation and competitiveness.
Deploy commercial-ready forest-based technologies and products.
Sustain a high-performing organization through good governance and effective management.
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CRIBE catalyzes the conversion of Ontario’s sustainably harvested forest resources into profitable, high-quality, low-carbon solutions. We are committed to creating jobs, opportunity and prosperity by supporting projects that drive the future of Ontario’s forest sector and developing Ontario’s bio-economy.
$
27
million
In CRIBE funding support has leveraged
$
130
million
In industry investments
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This project will explore the transformation of underutilized forest biomass through pyrolysis to biochar and pyroligneous acid for use primarily in the agriculture sector. Additionally,...
Read More on Catching Carbon – Transforming Ontario’s Underutilized Biomass
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The project aims to fully displace fossil fuel carbon that is used in EAF steelmaking with CO2 neutral biocarbon. This project will address two key...
Read More on Biocarbon Utilization in the Electric Arc Furnace at ArcelorMittal Dofasco
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This project intends to reduce the CO2 footprint in production of automotive and packaging parts by sustainably commercialization and inclusion of forest-based feedstock in thermoplastics...
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The primary objective of this project is to prove the efficacy and commercial deployment of a drone based aerial seeding solution for forestry in Ontario.
Bringing innovators together to advance low-carbon, forest-based solutions.
Nextfor is CRIBE’s collaboration network. Nextfor brings innovators together to build cross-sectoral partnerships and to identify opportunities for Ontario’s forest bio-economy. Join the network today!
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Connecting the dots, using public data, to support economic development in Ontario’s forest bio-economy.
ForestEDGE uses geospatial tools to map opportunities for economic development in Ontario. CRIBE developed ForestEDGE to provide investors and innovators with information related to the province’s forests, catalyzing the development of new low-carbon solutions that utilize the province’s sustainably harvested forest resources.
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Through our funding challenges, CRIBE facilitates the deployment of first-in-kind, commercial-ready forest-based technologies and products.
Opportunities
We work with innovators and accelerators around the world to identify opportunities for collaboration.
Nordic Colab