Toronto Industry Network

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The Toronto Industry Network (TIN) is a group of manufacturers and manufacturing associations with operations in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Manufacturing industrial activity producing goods for sale using labor and machines

Manufacturing is the production of products for use or sale using labour and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation, and is the essence of secondary industry. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial design, in which raw materials from primary industry are transformed into finished goods on a large scale. Such finished goods may be sold to other manufacturers for the production of other more complex products, or distributed via the tertiary industry to end users and consumers.

Toronto Provincial capital city in Ontario, Canada

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the most populous city in Canada, with a population of 2,731,571 in 2016. Current to 2016, the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA), of which the majority is within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), held a population of 5,928,040, making it Canada's most populous CMA. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,245,438 people surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.

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According to the organization, Network organizations employ 25,000 people directly and another 100,000 indirectly through suppliers and customers in the Toronto area. [1] Operating since 2001, TIN provides the manufacturing community access to the City of Toronto, participating in the formulation of city policies that affect the industry. TIN is focused on making Toronto more competitive in manufacturing with Canada and foreign countries.

List of members

Company members

  • Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.
  • Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.
  • Campbell Company of Canada
  • Canadian Fuels
  • CBM Readymix
  • DEL
  • Gay Lee Foods
  • Irving Tissue
  • K+S Windsor Salt Ltd.
  • Lafarge
  • Lincoln Electric Company of Canada
  • Mondelez Canada
  • Owens Corning Insulating Systems Canada LP
  • Redpath Sugar
  • Sanofi Pasteur
  • Siltech Corporation
  • The International Group, Inc.

Source: Toronto Industry Network. [2]

Association members

Source: Toronto Industry Network. [2]

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References

  1. "What is the Toronto Industry Network?". www.torontoindustrynetwork.com. Toronto Industry Network. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
  2. 1 2 "TIN Members". www.torontoindustrynetwork.com. Toronto Industry Network. Retrieved October 9, 2019.