Grants and Contributions

Founded in 2019, CRT is a Pending B Corp, Canadian clean tech startup with a mission to enable infinite reuse of the world’s rubber. Globally, 20 million tonnes of rubber is used annually to make new tires, and the majority is ultimately landfilled or used in low grade applications at the end of their life. CRT’s proprietary process converts end-of-life industrial tires into high quality natural rubber reclaim that can be substituted for natural virgin rubber. A truly circular Tire-to-Tire Solution. Our high quality product, clean process, global supply chain network, and fully traceable solution provides tire manufacturers with a sustainable alternative to virgin rubber at stable lower cost levels with a significantly lower carbon footprint.   In 2023, CRT is constructing its first commercial facility in Alberta whilst continuing to innovate and scale its global operations to achieve significant growth.

Clir Renewables’ data and analytics software provides intelligence on performance and risk to investors in utility-scale wind and solar projects, improving returns and encouraging further investment in clean energy. The company's wind platform is already an established leader and is used by owners on more than 20 GW of wind farms across four continents. With the rapid development of large-scale solar projects, and the limited experience in the workforce, Clir’s enhanced solar platform will give investors and asset management teams the insights and tools they need to optimize solar project returns.

Perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyls, better known by their acronym “PFAS”, have always been used and released into the environment, mainly through the use of fire-fighting foams. Worldwide, the potential effects of PFAS on humans and the environment, and their ability to migrate, have given rise to considerable concern. Studies have already shown their potential harmful effects on humans. Some PFAS (PFOA and PFOS) are now regulated in several countries around the world. More standards are to come, as governments work on tighter criteria that will affect more compounds.
At present, there is no economically viable technology with minimal environmental impact to address this issue.
An electro-oxidation process has been developed by E2Metrix to degrade persistent refractory contaminants (known as “emerging contaminants”), including PFAS. Electro-oxidation with ECOTHOR-AOP uses highly conductive, chemically inert electrodes to effectively destroy these contaminants. The system is powered by solar energy. The system is controlled remotely and parameters are adjusted automatically using the integrated E2net platform (IOT).
E2metrix offers a new, efficient turnkey approach that will cut costs by 90-95%.

Enedym is a Canadian company at the cutting edge of electric motors and controls. Its proprietary technology will revolutionize the deployment of electric motors in clean energy production, transportation and industrial drives. The company’s patented Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) technology offers robust, highly reliable and low-cost solutions to many sectors from clean energy production, to transportation, to industrial applications. SRMs do not use permanent magnets, which are sensitive to operating temperature and require rare earth materials with their associated challenges in global supply chains.
The technology will be demonstrated first in wind energy applications, through a partnership with windmill operators, manufacturers and installers. It will validate its robustness and reliability in the control of the wind pitch turbine blades, considered a harsh environment and where operational reliability is critical. The increased reliability of wind turbines significantly cuts GHG emissions by displacing fossil fuel generated electricity with clean energy from existing and future installations. The potential use of these motors in other sectors is enormous offering substantial climate change benefits.

RECIRCUIT has developed and patented an innovative, efficient and economically viable process for recycling critical and strategic materials (CSMs) from printed circuit boards (PCBs). Thanks to pilot plant development, this process will be refined and optimized. By tapping into the urban mine, the construction here in Montreal of the first 5000 Tm/year commercial plant will aim to recover the PCI discarded and reclaimed by existing networks to revalue the SCMs using a low-GHG hydrometallurgical process.Thanks to SDTC, RECIRCUIT will eventually commercialize its process to show that, with its vision, it is possible to bring as much of the SCM recovered from PCI into the circular economy as possible, so that it can be reintroduced into the production chain worldwide.Thanks to a very high extraction efficiency rate (95%), RECIRCUIT is pioneering the use of hydrometallurgy to recycle low- and medium-grade PCI in order to extract SCMs. This innovative process counteracts the landfilling or export to certain developing countries of this electronic waste, while preserving the environment and the health of workers and citizens alike.

EMS’s Crop Sense technology enables crop producers to track water, fertilizer and carbon across the broad acres of farmland that make up the world’s breadbaskets. The Crop Sense is a revolutionary soil sensor that agronomists and farmers can use where they wish, and for as long as they wish to answer the questions that keep them up at night. EMS’s decision support system links seamless with today’s farm management systems enabling producers to optimize food production while minimizing greenhouse gas emission and fertilizer runoff. In partnership with SDTC, EMS is building tomorrows soil sensors that will form a key component of the sustainable agriculture technology stack needed to reduce greenhouse gasses from production, while maintaining farm profitability and production capacity.

Cobric proprietary High Temperature Metal Recovery technology (HTMR) is designed to recycle of Electric Arc Furnace Dust (EAFD) generated by Steel Mill Industry. The process is based on thermo-separation of zinc from other metal components present in the feedstock. Typical application for HTMR is Zinc recovery from raw materials such as Electric Arc Furnace Dust, Zinc dross, Zinc ash and other secondary Zn sources. The technology is in tune with Canadian green industry initiatives to develop and demonstrate of new sustainable recycling technologies to deal with climate change, clean air, clean water and clean soil challenges.
The technology has the potential to demonstrate significant and quantifiable environmental and economic benefits for Steel Mills who generate zinc bearing EAF Dust. The technology will provide Steel Mills with a new alternative to reuse/recycle the EAF Dust on site or in close vicinity of the Steel Mill Production which is currently not available.
The technology has very high potential to be an attractive opportunity for its end users ( steel mills and recycling service companies). Successful demonstration and completion of the HTMR prototype technology will provide a blueprint to replicate the process elsewhere in the ready world market.

Their technology opens the door to reducing the weight of vehicles and aircraft – which leads to enhanced fuel economies and reduced GHG emissions.

e-Zinc is a zinc-air battery company based in Toronto. The company’s energy storage system can be up to 80 percent less expensive than comparable lithium-ion systems for long-duration applications. Importantly, its energy storage system can operate in cold and hot climates and is made of abundant and recyclable materials.

The project will be hosted at Eurus Energy America Corporation’s (EEAC) Bull Creek wind facility in Borden County, Texas (Bull Creek). The pilot program will store excess wind generation capacity in the e-Zinc battery system at Bull Creek. EEAC can then use the stored energy to power buildings at the local facility. e-Zinc’s system is expected to store power for 24 hours, an order of magnitude longer than typical batteries, and is better suited to the intermittency of wind generation than typical batteries. The pilot project will deliver firsthand experience with e-Zinc’s disruptive technology, and potentially lead to future manufacturing, supply chain and commercial opportunities between TTCI and e-Zinc. Additionally, TTCI will apply its unique capabilities to support installation, integration, and system O&M.

The project proposed by Ferme d'Hiver Technologie inc (FHT) and its technical and academic partners aims to set up two vertical farming production rooms and use the excess heat produced by lighting these rooms to heat an adjacent greenhouse.