Sudbury

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Municipalities throughout the Manitoulin Lacloche area are establishing key business opportunities to assist in the expansion of their economic development initiatives.

Companies often expend a great deal of energy leafing through phonebooks scouting for suppliers of products and services to help make their conference or trade show a success. Now the landscape of the event-planning industry has changed.

A consortium of First Nations communities have finalized the sale of the assets of Algoma Mill Works to build a specialty plywood mill on the North Channel of Lake Huron. Algoma-Manitoulin MP Brent St.

By IAN ROSS A proposed birchwood fibre mill slated for Lake Huron’s North Shore will likely proceed under Aboriginal ownership.

A new regional trade association has been formed to promote Greater Sudbury’s fastest growing sector.

By IAN ROSS In promoting Elliot Lake as a four-season vacation destination, the city is preparing to introduce new seasonal cottage lots to the marketplace this summer.

By IAN ROSS Being prepared with readily available space for technology-based companies is the business case behind renovations at Sudbury’s expanded downtown Technology Centre.

By ANDREW WAREING While the real estate market in Northern Ontario is showing signs of improvement, there is reason for cautious optimism.

By IAN ROSS The beginnings of a biodiesel manufacturing plant could take shape in Sudbury as early as this year as an Ottawa-based green technology company prepares to set up shop as an anchor business in the city’s eco-industrial park.

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Plans to implement an energy program at Cambrian College in Greater Sudbury are taking shape.