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Toronto's key industry clusters: Aerospace |
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Toronto is a centre for commercial aircraft manufacturing and systems integration with a proud history of technology leadership. The regional aircraft designed and built here help link communities around the world. Local innovators developed breakthrough satellite technology that has enhanced communications globally. And Toronto-based companies were responsible for the famed Canadarm and other components of NASA's Remote Manipulator System. The aerospace cluster today continues to grow, generating significant exports and keeping Canada at the forefront of a key international industry.
 Aerospace strengths
Major players
Support systems
Contact information
Aerospace strengths
- The Toronto region aerospace cluster is the second largest in Canada, generating more than $6 billion annually in sales of aerospace goods.
- Toronto is one of only seven significant aerospace assembly centres in the world.
- More than 200 Toronto-area aerospace manufacturing firms employ a workforce of over 20,000 highly skilled and educated technicians focused on systems engineering, equipment production and integration. The region's aerospace enterprises provide a broad range of aerospace/aviation design, manufacturing and product support for markets worldwide. Toronto is also the global centre for production of regional commercial turboprop aircraft.
- Constantly setting standards in advanced manufacturing, the aerospace industry is crucial to economic growth in Toronto and in the province of Ontario. This key cluster generates significant exports and bolsters Canada's reputation as a research and development beacon within a thriving knowledge-based economy.
- Toronto's location ensures easy access to the world's largest aerospace market, the United States, while offering lower production costs than many competing locations - as well as the import-export advantages of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Major players
- Bombardier Aerospace, Goodrich Landing Gear, Honeywell, Interfast, L3 Communications, Luxell Technologies, Messier-Dowty, MDA Space Missions, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Magellan Aerospace, Northstar Aerospace.
Support systems
- The Aerospace Action Partnership (AAP), spearheaded by Toronto Economic Development, is a multi-stakeholder partnership between industry, labour, academia, and government to promote the health and growth of the aerospace cluster in the Toronto region. The AAP developed a province-wide cluster development strategy, Flight Path: A Vision for the Future, the first phases of which are currently being implemented.
- Toronto's aerospace cluster is supported by industry-led initiatives and organizations such as the Ontario Aerospace Council (OAC), as well as Canadian government departments and agencies including Industry Canada, Export Development Corporation, National Research Council, Canadian Commercial Corporation and the Canadian Space Agency. The sector is also bolstered by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.
- Several leading academic institutions - the University of Toronto's Institute for Aerospace Studies; Ryerson Institute for Aerospace Development and Innovation; York University; and the Association of Colleges of Applied Arts & Technology of Ontario - provide leading-edge aerospace education and training in the Toronto region, as well as facilities for advanced research and development.
Contact information:
Aerospace Cluster Specialist
Frank Bedard
Tel: 416-394-5498
Fax: 416-394-5537
fgbedard@toronto.ca
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