Leading Advanced Manufacturing Players in Vaughan* Automotive Food and Beverage Building Materials Furniture International Automotive Arla Foods Inc. JELD-WEN Windows & Doors Décor-Rest Furniture Ltd. Components Group Concord Confections Royal Building Products Global Furniture Group Magna International Inc. Kisko Products Toro Aluminum Gracious Living Corp. Martinrea International Inc. Riverside Natural Foods Ltd. Vision Group Teknion Multimatic Anton Wholesome Harvest Vinylbilt Windows SSH Bedding Canada Co. Woodbridge Group Baking Ltd. & Doors Group (Serta, Simmons Bedding)
Supported by Organizations such as: • Canadian Manufacturers • Excellence in • Building Industry and and Exporters Association Manufacturing Consortium Land Development Association (BILD) • Automotive Parts • Trillium Network for • Food and Beverage Ontario Manufacturer’s Association Advanced Manufacturing • Vaughan Chamber of Commerce
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Advanced manufacturing business locations (1,626) 50 in Vaughan
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CITY OF TORONTO * Listed above are top employers. For a full listing, visit yorklink.ca/york-region-employment-survey. Manufacturing
City of Vaughan Economic and Cultural Development 905-832-8526 2141 Major Mackenzie Dr. North America toll-free: 1-844-832-2112 Vaughan, ON, Canada L6A 1T1 [email protected] Advanced Manufacturing The Advanced Manufacturing Sector in Vaughan has been, Diversified and Strong and will continue to be, a significant part of the city’s economic base. As one HIGHLY SKILLED LABOUR FORCE • Direct access to Highways 427, 400 STRONG ECONOMY of Canada’s advanced manufacturing hubs, Vaughan is also an integral part Manufacturing Base • Seventy per cent of Vaughan’s population AND UNPARALLELED GROWTH of the newly announced Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster, building up and 407. Highway 401 is minutes away. Transportation over the age of 25 has a post-secondary • 6.6-kilometre expansion of Highway 427 is • Part of the Greater Toronto Area’s $332- next-generation manufacturing capabilities, incorporating technologies such 4 Equipment certificate, diploma or degree – surpassing expected to be completed by 2020. billion economy with 6.4-million people – as advanced robotics and 3-D printing. Manufacturing: the largest consumer market in Canada. 54 both the provincial (65.1%) and national • Canada’s busiest airport, Toronto Pearson COMPANIES 1 Fabricated 6,922 averages (64.8%). International Airport, is located on the • Largest economy in York Region LARGEST SECTOR with Metal Product employees Within a one-hour drive from Vaughan, southwestern boundary of Vaughan, within with an estimated GDP of more than OVER 5 Manufacturing: 291 businesses have access to: 10 kilometres. $21 billion in 2019. 48,795 employees COMPANIES % Furniture and • eight colleges and seven universities, • One of Canada’s fastest-growing accounting for 22 of 6,703 Related Product collectively producing 220,646 university and A ROBUST municipalities, expected to reach Vaughan’s total employment. $19 employees 6 250 Manufacturing: 113,669 college-enrolled students annually.2 INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM close to 500,000 people by 2041. BILLION COMPANIES Plastics • Niagara University, which has relocated its • Access to nearly 84,000 Science, Technology, • Surpassed the $1-billion mark in construction in annual exports 6,110 Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) activity in eight of the last 10 years.7 and Rubber employees bi-national presence to the Vaughan responsible for Manufacturing: 92 students enrolled in the Greater Toronto COMPANIES Metropolitan Centre (VMC). SOURCES: Contributes % and Hamilton Area.4 58.7 of Vaughan’s Food and • a labour force of more than 3.9 million.3 1. Statistics Canada, Census 2016. 6,045 MORE THAN Beverage • Through the Test City Program, local and 2. Common University Data Ontario (CUDO) Access to superior total exports employees & Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. 125 Manufacturing: SUPERIOR TRANSPORTATION international businesses have access to $4.5 billion COMPANIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE Colleges and universities within a one-hour radius include: or 21.7% to end-to-end a host of unique opportunities including Centennial College, Durham College, George Brown College, Machinery 5,096 • Home to the country’s largest international Georgian College, Humber College, Seneca College, Sheridan Vaughan’s GDP. supply chain solutions. the use of the City’s infrastructure, data, Manufacturing: employees rail carriers – the Canadian National (CN) College, McMaster University, Mohawk College, Niagara equipment and land to test or demonstrate University, Ontario College of Art and Design, Ryerson 135 COMPANIES MacMillan Yard and the Canadian Pacific their innovative or emerging technologies, University, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Vaughan has the most concentrated 3,699 Non-metallic (CP) Railway Vaughan Intermodal Terminal. University of Toronto and York University. manufacturing sector in the employees products or services. 3. Environics Analytics, Demostats 2018. Mineral Product • The only urban growth centre in the Greater • Expected to be completed in 2020, 4. Toronto Global. Greater Toronto Area. 140 Manufacturing: COMPANIES Toronto Area, outside of Toronto, that has Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital will be the 5. Conference Board of Canada, 2019 real GDP estimates. Wood Product 2,712 subway access and an innovative intermodal fully 6. York Region 2041 Preferred Growth Scenario, Nov. 2015. first hospital in Canada to feature Manufacturing: employees transit system. 7. City of Vaughan, Building Standards, 2009-2018 Location Quotient integrated ‘smart’ technology Bubble size represents 2018 jobs in each region Source: EMSI, Analyst 93 (issuance of Building Permits). COMPANIES systems. 2.4 1,940 employees Chemical 2.2 49 Manufacturing: 2.0 COMPANIES Printing and 1,556 Universities and Colleges 1.8 MANUFACTURING Related Support employees Airports with 1.6 (2.13 LQ) Services: Lake Simcoe 130 County of COMPANIES Scheduled Commercial Service Simcoe 1.4 1,359 Other Intermodal Terminal 1.2 employees Manufacturing:
and Rail Yard LQ 2018 1.0 267 COMPANIES 6,653 0.8 400 employees City of Peel Kawartha Lakes 0.6 York VAUGHAN 0.4 1,626 companies Lake Scugog 401 Halton 0.2 401 Durham 0.0 employing 427 48,795 -1.5% -1% -0.5% 0% 0.5% 1% QEW Toronto 401 Hamilton 404 2018-2019 Per Cent Change LQ Downtown Toronto Manufacturing Arts, entertainment Management of Vaughan is the ‘Silicon Valley’ of plastic extrusion. and recreation companies and enterprises Wholesale trade Resin suppliers, equipment manufacturers, and Real estate rental Professional, scientific “ Construction Lake Ontario and leasing and technical services a strong talent pool in extrusion operators and 3.9 Transportation MILLION and warehousing Retail trade mechanics, tool and die makers, and CNC punching NORTH Location quotient (LQ) is a way of quantifying how concentrated a particular industry, machinists are all located within a 10-kilometre labour cluster, occupation, or demographic group is in a region compared to the nation. It can radius. Our manufacturing presence in Vaughan One-hour reveal what makes a particular region “unique” in comparison to the national average. over many years is largely because of this reason. force radius Many economists consider an area’s industry to be concentrated if its LQ is above 1.2. ~ Nuform Building Technologies Inc.”