Category: Innovation

2022 Political Wish List: Don’t miss out on a Great Solution for Supply Chain Disruption

February 22, 2022

Author:  Bruce R. Burrows, President and CEO, Chamber of Marine Commerce Supply chain disruption has been the business buzz phrase of 2021 and now 2022 – and for good reason.…

Council of the Great Lakes Region (Canada) Announces New Board of Directors

January 12, 2022

OTTAWA, ON and CLEVELAND, OH / January 12, 2022 – The Council of the Great Lakes Region (CGLR), a Canadian not-for-profit forum of business, government, academic, and non-profit leaders committed…

Skilling the Workforce and Leading an Equitable Clean Energy Transition

November 24, 2021

Manufacturing regions have long been looking for a spark to revitalize communities and bring jobs to areas that have lost workers to automation and market transition. In Normal, Illinois, that…

Sustainable Great Lakes: A Regional Assessment of Sustainability in the Binational Great Lakes Megaregion

October 19, 2021

For over fifty years, governments around the world, including in Canada, have discussed the importance of sustainability or sustainable development. One of the more prominent undertakings was the Rio Summit…

Bringing the Circular Economy to Life in the Great Lakes
UBQ Technology Converts Plastic & Waste to New Plastic

April 5, 2021

By Derek Schaefer UBQ Materials Inc. is a certified B Corp headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, committed to the circular economy, with unique manufacturing technology to convert waste into thermoplastic material…