Three Foodtech Startups Receive $294K from The Canadian Food Innovation Network

Adapted from original post The Innovation Booster funding will help the Canadian companies accelerate food safety, processing, and emissions-reduction projects. GUELPH, ON — The Canadian Food Innovation Network (CFIN) is awarding $294,497 to three foodtech projects through the organization’s Innovation Booster Program. Industry will match these funds, resulting in a total of $588,992 in funding across the three projects.   The Innovation Booster funding recipients are:  Project Lead: Bliq Photonics (Quebec)  Project Title: Coagulation Measurement Probe for the Cheese Industry  Funding: $99,992  Bliq Photonics is proposing a significant advancement for […]

Harvest Systems and Pizza Pizza Establish Commercial Relationship

HAMILTON, ON  – Harvest Systems Inc. is proud to announce that they have secured an initial order commitment from Pizza Pizza Limited for its POWER (Pizza Oven Waste Energy Recovery) system following a successful demonstration of the product within the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Harvest’s clean technology system, installed and commissioned at three Pizza […]

Restaurants are having their biggest year ever

By Jennifer A. Kingson, author of Axios What’s Next (Adapted from original post) 2024 will be the U.S. restaurant industry’s biggest year ever in sales — $1.1 trillion by the end of December, per National Restaurant Association estimates. Why it matters: The COVID-19 pandemic devastated the restaurant industry, but sales are now far higher than before […]

A Second Life for Leftover Heat

By Jeff Cowan, President and CEOHamilton Community Enterprises Everyone, everywhere likes to reduce waste. It’s how we conserve resources, save money and prepare for a rainy day. Affordability concerns, uncertainty in energy markets and the growing threat of climate change are all driving us to reduce the amount of energy we consume. This is especially […]

Inside Innovation: Capturing, storing and reusing lost heat becomes a global phenomenon

John Bleasby Across Canada, the number of days that buildings of all sorts require heating far outnumbers those that require cooling. According to data gathered by James Cotton, professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University and associate director of the McMaster Institute of Energy Studies, the ratio in Toronto, for example, is about […]

Three innovative McMaster startups awarded seed funding

Three McMaster startup companies – HARvEST, A.I. VALI Inc. and Esphera SynBio – have each received $256,000 in the third round of McMaster Seed Fund investments. Co-founded by mechanical engineering professor, James Cotton, and research lab manager at the McMaster Institute for Energy Studies, Jeffrey Girard, HARvEST aims to support decarbonization of the restaurant industry […]

HARvEST Systems demos waste heat recovery from Pizza Pizza ovens

By Canadian Pizza Hamilton, Ont. – HARvEST Systems has successfully demonstrated its innovative waste heat recovery systems within the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. The company’s clean technology system, installed and commissioned at three Pizza Pizza locations, enables the restaurants to efficiently manage their energy usage, cut down on operating costs and reduce emissions. Developed […]