PLAEX News

  • Maritime startup invents Lego-style bricks made from recycled plastic

    CBC

  • The Building Block of Tomorrow

    Construction in Focus

  • PLAEX continues to build momentum as virtual Volta Cohort company

    VOLTA

  • Information Morning - NS with Portia Clark

    CBC Radio

  • PLAEX blocks: The Legolution in the sustainability of building materials

    Salix

  • Turning Waste Plastic into Bricks

    Entrevestor

  • New Product Aims To Eliminate Job Site Waste

    Country 91.4

  • Interlocking plastic bricks could be a ‘game-changer’

    Daily Commercial News

  • Unique ways people are saving the environment

    CBC Kids

  • Upcycled Building Blocks

    Trend Hunter

  • Shoreline, island clean ups net more than 190,000 pounds of ocean trash in tri-counties so far in 2022

    Saltwire

  • Employer finds an excellent architectural designer

    YMCA

AWARDS

  • VOLTA 2021 Cohort Winner

    Volta Cohort provides mentorship, resources and investments of $25,000 through a microfund co-founded by Volta, BDC Capital, Innovacorp and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

  • Solar Impulse: Efficient Solutions 2022 Winner

    The Solar Impulse Foundation is an environmental non-profit that assesses and boosts the adoption of profitable & sustainable solutions to protect the environment.

  • Energia Ventures Cohort: 2021 Winner

    Energia Ventures is a three-month intensive accelerator for entrepreneurs with an innovative business in the energy, smart grid, artificial intelligence, cleantech, and cybersecurity sectors. We provide funding, mentoring, and programming to take your business to the next stage. Some of the great benefits you'll receive by participating in the program include:

  • Supporters of the MEP 2040 Challenge

    An independent initiative, led by the MEP 2040 Steering Committee, with the mission of dramatically reducing the embodied carbon emissions associated with Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) systems.

  • Foresight Canada 2022 Accelerator Program

    Foresight Canada brings together innovators, industry, investors, government, and academia to address today’s most urgent climate issues and support a global transition to a green economy.

  • SparkNB Venture Validation 2021 Cohort

    The goal of SPARK NB is to find and support high potential, early stage knowledge-based companies, and encourage entrepreneurial activity across the province.

  • Seed Funding Envelope of $1.6M

    Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) invested in 16 Canadian companies that are developing critical environmental solutions, PLAEX included.

  • South East Asia CleanTech CTA 2021 Cohort

    CleanTeach CTA helps businesses to maximize resource efficiency, improve access to necessities such as water and energy, incorporate climate change resilience in infrastructure and more.

  • ACOA Grant

    The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) works to create opportunities for economic growth in the region by helping businesses become more competitive, innovative and productive, by working with diverse communities to develop and diversify local economies, and by championing the strengths of Atlantic Canada.

  • Marquis Who's Who

    Marquis Who’s Who was established in 1898 and promptly began publishing biographical data in 1899. More than 120 years ago, our founder, Albert Nelson Marquis, established a standard of excellence with the first publication of Who’s Who in America.

  • Newcomer Employment Champions

    The Newcomer Employment Champions (NEC) program aims to support local employers beyond Cultural Competency Training by giving them the support, resources and practical tools to hire, onboard, and retain newcomers effectively.

  • Microsoft for Startups

    Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub helps remove traditional barriers to building a company with free access to the technology, coaching, and support you need to hit your next milestone.

  • UltraHack Upcycling Plastic Waste Innovation Challenge

    Ultrahack helps organizations globally to innovative and build new digital business by leveraging our unique end-to-end open innovation model and an international community of over 10 000 digital innovators.

  • Top 100 Resilience Solutions Award

    Rising above over 650 applications coming in from over 80 countries. Award presented by Leading Cities.

COLLABORATIONS

  • MIND YOUR PLASTIC

    The Circular Economy Ambassador Program is an annual program that Canadian teachers carry out in their classrooms to educate children and youth about the harmful effects of plastic pollution and what they can do to have a positive impact.

  • CBDC Hants-Kings

    Community Business Development Corporation (CBDC) with support from ACOA, offers entrepreneur and business planning, training and consulting.

  • UNB Fredericton

    The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is a public university with two primary campuses in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick. They have supported PLAEX by providing lab testing on our material.

  • ENERGIA

    Energia Ventures is a three-month accelerator for entrepreneurs in the energy, clean tech, and cybersecurity sectors based in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

  • VOLTA

    Volta is Canada's largest East Coast Innovation hub and Co-Working Space. We connect tech entrepreneurs with programming, resources and space to scale and grow their companies in the tech and innovation ecosystem.

  • NBIF

    New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is an independent non-profit corporation that specializes in venture capital and research investments.

  • LearnSphere

    LearnSphere is a a recognised and awarded Registered Training Organisation (RTO). They integrate existing and new educational data and analysis repositories to offer the world's largest learning analytics infrastructure.

  • ONB

    Opportunities New Brunswick (ONB) is accelerating growth by attracting global business, strengthening exports, and empowering local companies and entrepreneurs.

  • BioNB

    BioNB offers a range of business services from proposal editing to collateral design and business plan development to pitch coaching.

  • Ocean Legacy

    OLF is a non-profit based in Canada, pioneering an EPIC Plastic Pollution Emergency Response™ program to help mitigate and transform ocean plastic.

  • Colum Consultants

    Focused on helping small and medium-sized businesses to grow and thrive in the Maritime region through research and innovation.

  • Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

    The department of the Government of Canada with responsibility for policies governing the production, processing, and marketing of all farm, food, and agri-based products.

  • The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

    ACOA works to create opportunities for economic growth in the region by helping businesses become more competitive, innovative and productive, by working with diverse communities to develop and diversify local economies, and by championing the strengths of Atlantic Canada.

  • LAMOR

    A Finnish family-owned company focusing on environmental services and products. In 2020, Lamor's key business areas included oil spill response, waste management and water treatment.

  • P.I.B

    Based in Nigeria, PIB Global is an environmental consulting firm. Offering services to private and public institutions in the Lagos area, PIB supports sustainable projects relating to plastic waste clean-up ad alternative fuels among others.

  • NRC IRAP

    The National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program provides advice, connections, and funding to help Canadian small and medium-sized businesses increase their innovation capacity and take ideas to market.

  • AR3C

    Dedicated to educating and compelling people, communities and governments to encourage awareness and mindfulness regarding how its policies, actions, and mandates impact Social, Environmental and Economic outcomes at the local, regional and global levels.

  • ARCDFabrication

    A New Brunswick owned and operated welding, fabrication, and motorcycle shop specializing in custom work

  • FGCAC

    Fishing Gear Coalition of Atlantic Canada words to develop sustainable solutions for end-of-life and abandoned, lost, and discarded fishing and aquaculture gear.

  • AIA

    The American Institute of Architects is the voice of the architectural profession and a resource for its members in service to society.

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