Honourable Gerry Ritz invests in Ontario's Green Technology Sector
Overview:
Congratulations to Amar Mohanty and Manju Misra on the announcement of $3M in funding by the Honourable Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in support of their work and collaborators through Growing Forward 2 funding. The project is to further the work that Competitive Green Technologies, a company that is marketing the use of composite plastics including Miscanthus fibre for the production of consumer items, such as flower pots and BioBins. The announcement was made at the Competitive Green Technologies facility in Leamington and included comments by minister Ritz, Mike Tiessen (the President of Competitive Green Technologies), Atul Bali (who acts as consultant to Competitive Green Technologies) and Amar Mohanty.