“Canadian Autoparts Toyota Inc. (CAPTIN) located in Delta, British Columbia is one of Toyota’s fourteen vehicle and parts manufacturing sites in North America. We depend on team members to be flexible and to perform a number of jobs. Locating here has enabled us to access a pool of skilled and talented labour.”

- Gary Smallenberg, President, CAPTIN (Toyota), Canada

“The appeal of locating our largest operation here in British Columbia is due in part to the excellent engineering talent that is produced by the local universities. The province also has an attractive tax and cost structure, and an unsurpassed lifestyle, which helps keep our retention levels best-in-class.”

– Bob Bailey, President and CEO, PMC-Sierra

• Access to a growing pool of over 50,000 top-notch engineering, technical, and production workers
• Operating cost savings of up to 20 per cent compared with U.S. locations
• Automatic property tax exemption for production machinery and equipment
• Generous R&D tax credits totalling 28 per cent of qualified R&D expenditures
• Research excellence in mechanical and electrical engineering
• Proximity and duty-free access to the U.S. market
• Proximity to low-cost Asian suppliers of components and materials
• Reliable, low-cost power

• Industrial machinery, process control technologies, and automation systems
• Industrial electrical equipment
• Electronics manufacturing services
• Power technologies – fuel cell systems and components; power measurement, control, and conversion devices
• Transportation equipment – aerospace and automotive components, sub-sea vehicles, ship, and boat building
• Specialty plastics
• Medical equipment and supplies
• Emergency and safety equipment