For over 150 years, Canada has been more than just a great neighbour to the United States – we’re the U.S.’s best customer, closest security partner, and largest supplier of energy. Beyond our common North American geography, we share values and interests, and deep connections with powerful, multi-layered economic ties.
Canada is the largest customer for the majority of states and is the United States’ top export market, with 2-way trade and investment totalling over $1 trillion in 2019.
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Canada’s Magna International, the world’s third largest auto supplier, has operated for over a decade in Birmingham, Alabama. In recent years, the company completed a $60 million expansion of its Kamtek plant, adding 250 new jobs.
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Canadian company, eCamion, a turn-key solution provider for the community energy storage industry, helped the municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, make electric vehicle history through the purchase of Alaska’s first commercial electric waste disposal truck.
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With in-state operations dating back to 1976, Canada’s Bombardier employs over 850 Arizonans across four sites in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona. Its Tucson facility is the largest of Bombardier’s aircraft service centers worldwide.
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Canadian company Structurlam Mass Timber Corporation, the leading mass timber manufacturer in North America, is expanding its operations into the United States, with a plant in Conway, Arkansas, set to open in mid-2021.
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CarbonCure is a Canadian company that is reducing the global carbon footprint by using recycled CO2 in the manufacturing of concrete. Its initial foray into the United States began with a partnership by a concrete masonry supplier in San Francisco, California, in 2012.
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As long as there has been a Hollywood, Canadians have played a major role in it. Top movie, TV, and music industry stars imported from Canada include: Seth Rogen, Rachel McAdams, Jim Carrey, James Cameron, Nia Vardalos, Sandra Oh, William Shatner, Drake, The Weeknd, Michael Bublé, and Neil Young.
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Hosted by the Colorado Cleantech Industries Association, the 2020 Challenge was won by Canadian nanotechnology firm FLITE Material Sciences. Its laser technology protects surface materials from corrosion, rusting and ice by altering the surface topology of materials to attract or repel water and oil without the use of chemical coatings.
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In spring 2020, Connecticut-based Lydall’s Canadian division, in conjunction with local Canadian partner, Atlantic Coated Papers, designed and tested prototypes, pass through rigorous Personal Protective Equipement (PPE) testing requirements, and found U.S. manufacturers to ramp up production — all on a crisis timeline.
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For three decades, Delaware’s Ultrachem sold lubricants to customers in many sectors across Canada, making Canada its longest tenured and most significant export destination.
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Canadian buyers are by far the largest non-U.S. investors in Florida’s residential real estate market. According to a survey by Florida’s Realtor Association, Canada was again, in 2019, the top international buyer, with an estimated transaction volume of $3.3 billion, bringing the total residential real estate portfolio held by Canadians to over $60 billion.
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Canada’s Irving Consumer Products, one of North America’s leading manufacturers of household paper and baby diaper products, opened a $470 million tissue plant in Macon-Bibb County, Georgia. The strategic location of the facility employs more than 200 people and produces ultra-premium quality bath tissue and paper towel.
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In 2018, a combined venture between California-based Pomona Farming LLC and Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board purchased 41,000 acres of what was once sugar land on the island of Maui, Hawaii, for a whopping $262 million. The plantation will be used to cultivate a broad range of food crops, including coffee, fruits and vegetables for both local consumption and export.
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Canadian company McCain Foods recently completed a $200 million expansion project of its Burley, Idaho distribution center. The expansion increased annual French fry capacity by more than 400 million pounds and created more than 180 new jobs.
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Canada’s BMO Financial Group employs over 13,000 people across the U.S. through its subsidiary BMO Harris Bank, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, for over 160 years.
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VanWyn, an entrepreneurial Canadian company in aerospace logistics, and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis’ Purdue School of Engineering and Technology are collaborating on finding a breakthrough in the next step for space-to-earth power beaming.
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Iowa City’s Marlowe Companies Inc. recently expanded into Canada by acquiring a call center in Sydney, Nova Scotia — renaming it The Sydney Call Centre, Inc.
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The crown jewel of the Canadian aerospace industry, Bombardier, has deep business operations across the United States, but nowhere more strongly felt than in Wichita, Kansas. Bombardier’s Wichita facility is a world-class, multi-faceted site that includes a premier service center as well as the company’s Flight Test Center and also Specialized Aircraft operations.
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Canadian businesses love to call Kentucky home and have deep connections to the communities in which they are located. So it may come as no surprise when Canada’s Solutions 2 Go stepped up to help in Kentucky’s fight against the pandemic in 2020 with some much needed Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
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The 2019 highly-automated sawmill from LaSalle Lumber Company, which employs 115 people, is a joint venture between Hunt Forest Products of Ruston, Louisiana, and Tolko Industries, Ltd., a Canadian company that produces a wide range of forest products for customers around the world. Along with skilled job opportunities, this partnership will provide a local outlet for the abundant inventory of southern yellow pine.
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LL Bean, the iconic outdoor outfitter from Freeport, Maine, has integrated into the Canadian market with several successful endeavors since 2018. They launched a Canadian e-commerce site in 2018, followed by the launch of a Canada-specific catalog and the opening of the first Canadian store in Oakville, Ontario, in 2019.
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Canadian company Stantec, has nearly 9,000 professional services staff across the United States. The long-established 200-person Maryland team brings deep experience and a broad range of services in infrastructure, buildings, water, environmental services and energy.
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In 2013, the Consulate General of Canada launched its Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) in Boston program. [email protected] is an award-winning federal accelerator program that connects selected Canadian Information Technology (IT) and Life Science companies to U.S. customers, strategic partners and investors and provides them with high-impact advisory services.
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Anticipated to be completed in 2024, the largest infrastructure project on the Canada–U.S. border will offer a new transportation choice between Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario, and will create a direct highway-to-highway connection between I-75 and Canada’s Highway 401.
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The City of St. Cloud, Minnesota, partnered with two Canadian companies, Ostara and Lystek, to implement a project to convert its waste streams into valuable fertilizer for farmers.
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Through its U.S. subsidiary, Recurrent Energy, Canadian Solar, one of the world’s largest solar power companies, will develop a 100-megawatt solar photovoltaic project in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Construction of the solar plant is expected to create approximately 360 jobs.
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Bausch + Lomb, a leading global eye health subsidiary of the Canadian company Bausch Health Companies, has a surgical unit, which includes ophthalmic surgical devices, instruments and equipment based in St. Louis, Missouri. The unit employs nearly 550 people at its three manufacturing plants in the Show-Me State.
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Goods and services that cross the shared border daily are critical to the Montana economy, but so is another (sometimes overlooked) revenue stream: tourism. Binational treasures such as Waterton Glacier International Peace Park — as well as other tourist attractions in the Big Sky State — enjoy visits from hundreds of thousands of Canadians each year, the most from any international destination.
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Over 1 billion acres across the U.S. and Canada are farmed annually, and farmers have long known that soil health is a key success factor in agriculture. Deveron helps North American farmers make data-enabled decisions to increase yield and improve their soil health and employs regionally and rurally-based technicians including in Nebraska.
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Canadian-owned businesses — from leading food brands like Coldstone Creamery to professional service providers like TELUS International and Mitel — employ over 8,500 Nevadans across the state. Canada is not only the largest employer and foreign direct investor in Nevada but also engages in $2.3 billion worth of bilateral trade annually.
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In 2019, seven organizations in New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and Quebec, Canada launched an effort to promote mountain biking and boost the area’s economy. The effort, entitled “Borderlands,” has a goal to make seven mountain biking areas encompassing 220 miles of trails more prominent by putting them under one marketing entity.
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PamTen Software Solutions, headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, is an award-winning Information Techjology (IT) solutions company recently which expanded its operations to Montreal, Canada, a key Artifical Intelligence (AI) hub that will allow it to continue to grow.
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Canadian startup, Smart Cone Technologies, has expanded operations into Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2020 after securing a finalist spot with the U.S. Army’s 2019 Hyperspace Challenge. SmartCone develops IoT (Internet of Things) technologies to make safety more intelligent, cost-effective, adaptable, scalable, and mobile, all at the highest standards of security and privacy.
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Li-Cycle, a Canadian cleantech company, and its recent $175 million expansion into the Eastman Business Park in Rochesterm New York, will create over 100 local jobs and make it the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, operating in a way that creates an economically viable resource from something that is otherwise considered a waste.
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Canadian manufacturer, AirBoss Defense Group (ADG), has been awarded more than $123 million in contracts to supply personal protective equipment to U.S. Government agencies. Their respirators, filters and hoods will be part of the inventory for the Strategic National Stockpile. ADG has increased staffing in their Scotland Neck, North Carolina, facility to help meet this need.
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Burgeoning agricultural technology (agtech) sectors on both sides of the border are creating investment and technology partnership opportunities for both North Dakota and Canada. At the Cultivate Conference, held annually in Fargo, North Dakota, innovative Canadian companies present their agtech products each year to hundreds of Midwestern farmers, industry employees, and investors.
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To combat algal blooms in Lake Erie, the Canadian and U.S. governments have each issued domestic action plans to reduce the amount of nutrients entering Lake Erie by 40 percent, compared to 2008 levels, by 2025.
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Since 1979, Canadian Armed Forces personnel have been stationed at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in support of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). As partners in NORAD, the only bi-national command of its kind in the world, the U.S. and Canada work side-by-side to carry out aerospace warning and control, as well as maritime warning, in the defense of North America.
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The Portland Winterhawks of the Canadian-based Western Hockey League (WHL) have found new ownership. Saskatchewan natives Kerry Preete and Mike Frank teamed up with U.S.-based businessman Michael Kramer and National Hockey League executive Peter Luukko to purchase the franchise.
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Founded in 1918, Pennsylvania-based United States Metal Powders/Ampal is North America’s largest producer of aluminum powder. With customers around the globe, this well-established company has a special two-way supply chain relationship with Canada. It sources high quality aluminum from Canada that it atomizes into aluminum powder.
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Canadian-owned companies, including Ocean State Power, TD Bank and Putnam Investments are major contributors to Rhode Island’s economy employing Rhode Island residents in every sector of the economy, paying taxes locally and contributing to the local economy through these salary dollars.
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Canada’s DIRTT Environmental Solutions, an interior construction company that designs, manufactures, and installs prefabricated interior solutions for use primarily in commercial spaces, is building a new 130,000-square-foot facility in York County, South Carolina. The $18.5 million investment is expected to create more than 100 jobs, and will include the development of a new tile and millwork manufacturing facility.
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South Dakota’s Prairie AquaTech has invested nearly $100 million in product development, testing, and construction of a 30,000-ton per year protein ingredient production facility in Brookings, South Dakota. The company’s research and development bring significant benefits to both crop and aquaculture farmers in Canada and across North America.
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Canadian National Railway Company recently invested about $30 million across Tennessee, by way of yard upgrades, replacement of rail and ties, and maintenance of bridges, level crossings, culverts and signal systems.
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Canada’s Stantec is an international professional services company in the design and consulting industry with over 500 employees in Texas. Because of its annual investment of approximately $3 million to develop innovative technologies and approaches to environmentally friendly technologies, Stantec is considered a leader in eco-conscious designs.
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Due to coronavirus restrictions, trade missions looked a little different in 2020 than in years past. One notable success was a virtual trade mission organised by the Utah World Trade Center Canada and the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce.
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Since July 2017, Rogers Sugar, one of Canada’s leading food companies, has been the parent company of Websterville, Vermont-based Highland Sugarworks. Highland holds a valuable foothold of production and distribution of branded and private label all-natural maple syrup products to retail and wholesale markets throughout the U.S., operates out of a 37,600 square foot facility and employs 24 people.
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Volvo’s 1.6-million-square-foot New River Valley assembly plant, located in Dublin, Virginia, is the largest Volvo truck manufacturing facility in the world. Year over year, Virginia exports thousands of tractor-trailer trucks to Canada enabling thousands of jobs in and around Dublin, Virginia.
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In 2018, Canada’s Silfab Solar acquired manufacturing assets in Bellingham, Washington, to better service its growing U.S. customer base that was previously served by Silfab’s Canadian operations. In early 2019, Silfab invested in upgrading the Bellingham facility within the existing footprint, and later expanded the facility to increase capacity.
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Component parts for Toyota Motor Manufacturing’s West Virginia plant come from all over North America, including from Canada, and the finished engines and transmissions are shipped across the continent, with approximately 30% headed to Canada to feed the manufacture and assembly of Toyota Corollas, RAV4s, and Lexus RXs.
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Recently, Canadian and American experts have established a non-profit consortium in Wisconsin to help young innovators navigate the process for transforming their ideas to a viable start-up.
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Canada-based, BluEarth Renewables, leads the charge for wind power in Wyoming, with the development of two new wind farms near Rock River and Medicine Bow. The Two Rivers Wind and Lucky Star Wind projects are expected to employ approximately 400 workers during construction and three dozen permanent employees ongoing, generating sales and property taxes for the state and local communities.
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May 13, 2020
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