Low costs, high profits: Canada services North America

Canada is the prime investment location for plastics manufacturing companies serving the North American market.

Offering the lowest production costs for the plastics sector among G-7 countries, costs in Canada are 6.4 per cent below those in the United States.

• Canada is also one of the world’s lowest-cost regions for producing high-volume synthetic resins.
• Canada is the second-largest exporter of moulds and seventh-largest exporter of machinery and auxiliary equipment, which are crucial to the competitive manufacturing of plastic products.

“We have top-notch scientists and engineers on staff who graduated from very good Canadian schools. Furthermore, research costs here are 30-40 per cent lower than our U.S. competitors.”

Ash Sahi, President and CEO
Liqui-Box, a DuPont Canada subsidiary

Canada offers several clear-cut advantages in plastic manufacturing:

• Industry : A dynamic, growing plastics sector
• Cost Advantage : Canadian business climate and cost advantage
• R&D; : An excellent knowledge and research base
• Investment Opportunities : An excellent investment platform
• Markets : Access to the huge North American market
• Success Stories

Key Web Resource

• Industry Canada: Plastics Industry
  Industry Overview, contact information, resources, statistical information

Publications

• Investment Opportunities in the Canadian Plastics Industry
  A 13-page presentation profiling the Canadian plastics manufacturing industry. PPT
  
  
• PLASTICS. MOULDING A VISION FOR GROWTH.
  A two-page fact sheet that showcases Canada's positive sector-based results in the KPMG 2006 study and also highlights Canada's non-cost location advantages. PDF

Contact an investment specialist from the plastics sector
John Margeson
Tel: (613) 954-3016
or:
Dennis Shanley
Tel: (613) 954-3247