PLAEX News

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    Maritime startup invents Lego-style bricks made from recycled plastic

    CBC

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    The Building Block of Tomorrow A Bold New Future

    Construction in Focus

  • A black and white line drawing of a girl with a large bow in her hair, looking curious or surprised.

    PLAEX continues to build momentum as virtual Volta Cohort company

    Volta

  • CBC Radio One logo with red and black text and a red circular symbol.

    Information Morning - NS with Portia

    CBC Radio

  • A digital illustration of a large green weeping willow tree with drooping branches and a thick trunk on a grassy patch.

    PLAEX blocks: The Legolution in the sustainability of building materials

    Salix

  • Entrevestor logo with a stylized bird design

    Turning Waste Plastic into Bricks. Gagetown, NB-based PLAEX is developing building materials made from recycled plastic.

    Entrevestor

  • Logo for CHSJ Country 94 FM 91 featuring red and black text with a maple leaf

    New Product Aims To Eliminate Job Site Waste

    Country 91.4

  • Logo for Daily Commercial News by ConstructConnect with white background, navy blue and light blue text.

    Interlocking plastic bricks could be a ‘game-changer’

    Daily Commercial News

  • CBC Kids logo with a red geometric design resembling a smiling face and the text 'CBC Kids' beside it.

    Unique ways people are saving the environment

    CBC Kids

  • The logo for Trend Hunter, featuring the words 'TREND' in black and 'HUNTER' in red, with a red semicircle around the 'T'}

    Upcycled Building Blocks

    Trend Hunter

  • SaltWire Network logo in black text.

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

    Saltwire

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    Employer finds an excellent architectural designer

    YMCA

AWARDS

  • Black background with the words "Volta Cohort" in bold white letters.

    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.

  • An aircraft flying above the clouds with a logo and message advocating for solar energy. The logo reads 'Solar Impulse Label, Efficient Solution' and the message says 'We are part of the #1000solutions to change the world'.

    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.

  • Energía Ventures logo with a multicolored geometric icon on the top left. Text on a red background states: 'NB innovators are thriving in emerging sectors'.

    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:

  • Logo for MEP 2040 with the tagline 'Committing to Zero'.

    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 logo with stylized circular design and text in black and orange.

    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.

  • Spark NB logo with a blue underline and a yellow asterisk to the left.

    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.

  • Logo with a stylized leaf made of geometric shapes in green and blue, featuring text in both English and French that reads 'Sustainable Development Technology Canada' and 'Technologies du Développement Durable Canada.'

    Seed Funding Envelope of $1.6M

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

  • Red background with white text reading 'Canadian Technology Accelerator' and a maple leaf icon in the top right corner.

    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.

  • Logo combining a blue stylized 'A' with a pathway and a red maple leaf, representing the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.

    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.

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    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.

  • Logo of Newcomer Employment Champions with a blue and red design featuring a gear and stars.

    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 logo with a rocket icon and the text 'Microsoft for Startups'.

    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.

  • Online UltraHack logo with red and white text

    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.

  • Blue banner with logos of QBE, AcceliCity, and cityscape outline, promoting the Resilience Challenge powered by Leading Cities.

    Top 100 Resilience Solutions Award

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

COLLABORATIONS

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    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.

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    CBDC Hants-Kings

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

  • UNB logo with red sailboat graphic, black text 'UNB,' and 'EST. 1785' in small black font.

    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.

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    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.

  • Logo with the letters 'NBIF', featuring a blue triangle as part of the 'N'.

    NBIF

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

  • LEARN SAVOIR SPHERE logo with text and a circular design element.

    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.

  • Logo of Opportunities NB featuring the acronym ONB with a red maple leaf replacing the letter 'A' and text below reading "Opportunities | Opportunités NB".

    ONB

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

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    BioNB

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

  • Black and white drawing of a cat sitting with its tail curved around its body, and a small crown on its head.

    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.

  • Logo for Column Consultants with the tagline 'Simplifying SMBs' in a modern font.

    Colum Consultants

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

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    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.

  • Logo of Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency with a stylized 'A' featuring a lighthouse and a maple leaf.

    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.

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    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.

  • A logo featuring a yellow human figure with arms raised, surrounded by green leaves, over a brown ground with small green sprouts. The text 'P.I.B' in large green letters, 'GLOBAL SERVICES' below it, and a tagline in cursive 'global ideas for sustainable planet'. Two black arrows form a circular motion around the figure and leaves.

    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.

  • Logo of URC CRC Canada for the NRC Industrial Research Assistance Program, featuring a stylized star, a red maple leaf, and a blue oval with the program name.

    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.

  • Logo of AR3C Construction Services Ltd with a robotic arm graphic and the company name in black and blue text.

    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.

  • ARC Fabrication logo in black and white

    ARCDFabrication

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

  • Logo of the Fishing Gear Coalition of Atlantic Canada, featuring a fishhook with a fish silhouette.

    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.

  • Red circle with the white letters 'ATA' centered in it.

    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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