Nextfor hosted a Regional Clustering Meeting on January 28th, 2025 in Thunder Bay, ON to discuss next steps for regional clustering and bolstering investment in Northwestern Ontario’s forestry sector. The initiative brought together forest industry, economic development agencies and public institutions, who had been working with CRIBE on parallel, closely-related efforts, and synthesized and built on the learnings of these previous initiatives.

We would like to sincerely thank our attendees for their valuable perspectives and inputs as well as our facilitator Ian McCormack. CRIBE remains committed to working with a diverse range of stakeholders in the region and beyond to facilitate action on the needs, services and solutions key to driving the growth of Ontario’s bioeconomy.