Most of the world's largest chemical companies have operations in Ontario, concentrated in three regions: Sarnia, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Eastern Ontario.
Sarnia
Sarnia has Canada's largest cluster of chemical, allied manufacturing and R&D facilities including:
Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
Many industry leaders have their Canadian head offices in the GTA including:
Chemical companies in the GTA produce lubricants, paints, medical gases for home and hospital use, laundry detergent, adhesives and more. As Canada's business centre and financial capital, Toronto is a prime location for corporate headquarters.
Eastern Ontario
Companies in Eastern Ontario - from Belleville to Brockville - produce products which go into fleece jackets, seatbelts, airbags and many other high-tech fabrics and products.
Recent developments
- NOVA Chemicals invested $300 million to modernize and increase the ethylene capacity of its Corunna facilities and is now investing more than $100 million to upgrade its polyethylene plants in the Sarnia-Lambton region.
- LANXESS completed a $70 million expansion project of its butyl rubber plant in Sarnia.
- Suncor Energy built a $275 million diesel desulphurization facility and a $240 million ethanol plant in Sarnia.
- GreenField Ethanol (formerly Commercial Alcohols), is building additional ethanol plants in Hensall (145 million litres-per-year) and Johnstown (200 million litres-per-year).
- Shell Canada invested $20 million to expand its lubricant-oil blending and packaging facility in Brockville.
