在B.较低的哥伦比亚地区，创新伙伴关系正在支持开发一组先进材料和冶金公司，利用机会减少浪费并创造新价值。
Metal Tech Alley is an economic development initiative started by the Lower Columbia Initiatives Corporation with the goal of supporting the development of a cluster of industry and technology companies in the Trail region. Teck Trail Operations is supporting the initiative as an industry partner. This partnership aims to capitalize on over 100 years of metallurgical expertise in the Kootenays, established supply chains, as well as the region’s livability and access to nature.
Metal Tech Alley brings together leaders from industry, research groups, nonprofits, post-secondary institutions and government to spearhead business opportunities in digital fabrication, advanced materials and metallurgy, industrial recycling, the industrial Internet of Things, and big data technology.
Metal Tech Alley aims to build a regional circular economy, where waste is designed out, and where value is created throughout the product life cycle. The circular economy is based on the four “R”s: reduce, reuse, recycle and recover, with the goal of keeping both products and value in the economy.
“Transitioning to an Industrial Circular Economy is more than good business sense—it’s a necessity for manufacturers to remain competitive in today’s evolving landscape,” says Tim Grouette, Executive Director, Lower Columbia Initiatives Corporation.
金属科技巷的主要成员包括Teck的Trail Operations，Fenix高级材料，Selkirk学院，Kootenay科学和技术协会，以及HUB I4C的工业互联网。万博手机版注册账号这些组织支持研究和开发，商业化和生产先进技术。Metal Tech Alley目前计划于6月2021年6月举办工业循环经济会议（ICE 2021），这是一个混合虚拟/内部会议，将在该领域带来商业领袖和专家探索新的机会。
Metal Tech Alley members are innovating to realize new business opportunities and address global sustainability challenges. At Teck Trail Operations, recycling programs for lead batteries, zinc alkaline batteries, and cathode ray tube glass are a strong example of circular principles at work. Teck works to actively support studies on the refining of intermediate products from Trail Operations to seed new business opportunities.
Fenix Advanced Materials is another company improving the circularity of metals manufacturing. Fenix sources refined cadmium and indium from Teck Trail Operations and produces ultrahigh purity forms of these metals for the manufacture of semiconductor-based devices.
Metal Tech Alley is creating the collaborative opportunities to turn waste from one process into fuel for another and, by doing so, create new value while reducing environmental impacts.
Learn more atmetaltechalley.com.
