Grants and Contributions

Extract Energy will design, build, and validate a solid-state cooling system that operates without refrigerants and improves energy efficiency.

Smarter Alloys is integrating AI to unlock insights from its rich materials and production data, enabling predictive modeling and real-time optimization to improve quality, manage risk, shorten time to market, and accelerate revenue growth through faster, more efficient product development and deployment.

Our technology has the potential to reduce GHG emissions by over 1 GtCO2e/year by 2050. This would be equivalent eliminating all cars from the planet!

Smarter Alloys will expand its existing Quality Management System (QMS) to include raw NiTi wire production, ensuring compliance with medical device standards while supporting new product development. By integrating raw wire production into the QMS, we will achieve operational efficiencies through digitalization, yield tracking, and production improvements using 5S principles. This initiative will enable Smarter Alloys to meet growing market demand, accelerate time-to-market for innovative devices, and support ongoing validation of new products. The project will also foster talent development and strengthen Canada’s position in advanced manufacturing technologies.

To support the acquisition of manufacturing equipment to increase efficiency.

Smarter Alloys is advancing the development of ultra-fine wire for automotive and aerospace actuation applications. Our project focuses on creating ultra-fine wire that meets high mechanical and cyclic performance standards.
We are developing specialized manufacturing processes to achieve precise wire dimensions and ensure consistent quality through rigorous testing and continuous monitoring. Key efforts include optimizing die sequences, evaluating lubricants, exploring cooling techniques, and integrating automated quality control systems.
These advancements will enhance wire performance and support innovation in high-precision automotive and aerospace applications.

As part of the international consortium project “Breakthrough Light-weight Actuators for Zero Emission Automotive and Aerospace Applications”, this project, Germany ZIM Call 11 - BLAZE - Breakthrough Light-weight Actuators for Zero Emission Automotive and Aerospace Applications, will focus on the diverse applications of SMAs and their exceptional properties which hold immense potential for technological advancement in various industries, including automotive and aerospace. To accelerate the commercialization of SMAs, this research project will develop a novel high-temperature shape memory alloy (HTSMA) wire, solidify the manufacturing process, and integrate the HTSMA wire into a standardized SMA actuator working with our German partner, Hoffmann Kunststoffe.

The purpose of this CanExport SMEs agreement is to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for activities related to export market development that are part of an export business case for a specific target market, particularly where activities are targeting departmental priority markets and sectors.

Smarter Alloys has a breakthrough technology that can push the operational temperature ranges of shape memory alloy actuators for aerospace and automotive applications. In consultation and through design iteration with our industry partners, Smarter Alloys has determined that a defining characteristic for actuators in this space is to function at temperatures greater than 80C. We have identified a ternary alloy that allows for the mechanical properties desired within this space. This project will support the research into the mechanical characteristics and properties of this shape memory alloy, as well as the effect of shape-based design elements to increase both yield and mechanical output.

This project is mostly related to technology research and development.