EnviroTrec News
News from Precision ADM
Precision ADM Targets Growth with Appointment of New Sales Director January 10, 2017 - Precision ADM (PADM) has appointed a new senior sales director to help drive the company's aerospace growth plan. The appointment brings an aerospace industry veteran who brings...
Precision Agriculture and Aerospace
What do Precision Agriculture and Aerospace have in common? On December 13th, 2016, about 100 farm entrepreneurs, technology advisors, interested sector development people and others, gathered at Southport Manitoba to see how much the two sectors of Agriculture and...
U of M Engineering Capstone Project
EnviroTREC ready to send U of M Engineering Capstone Project back up north! EnviroTREC and its sponsors supported a U of Manitoba Engineering Capstone project for the fall of 2016. The purpose of this project was to direct sunlight to the turbine blades, to support a...
Canadian Space Summit 2016
The Canadian Space Summit was hosted by the Winnipeg Chapter of the Canadian Space Society (CSS), during Nov 14 and 15th of this year. Prior to the start of this Summit, the CSS sponsored a rocket building workshop, tours of a local aerospace company and a...
WordCamp 2016 and EnviroTREC
The Winnipeg WordPress community is a vibrant and helpful one. For three years now WordCamp has assembled local, national and international speakers to present talks on how to manage that increasingly more vibrant and important web development software. While these...
EnviroTREC Attends CBAA
The Canadian Business Aviation Association (CBAA) hosted its AGM and Chapter meeting in Winnipeg at Hangar 80 on Sept 22, 2016. Following the formalities, a reception was held during which new jets from Dassault-Falcon, Gulfstream, Cessna, and Bombardier were...
EnviroTREC hits Hole-in-One!
EnviroTREC hits Hole in One at Manitoba Aerospace Inc. Golf Tournament! We wish this were the case but it was far from it. EnviroTREC joined in with the Manitoba aerospace community to participate in the annual golf tournament. Our partners this year were from WAA...
CSS MB Team Planning Annual Summit
The Canadian Space Society - Manitoba Team is busy planning for the upcoming CSS Annual Space Summit. The CSS Manitoba Team met at the ITC this last Monday evening and went through the lineup of speakers and Gala Preparations. Planning is now well underway and all...
Sensor Quest for Manitoba
Manitoba Aerospace industry and academe members recently participated in a Sensor Workshop which was held in Ottawa on August 15th - August 16th 2016. Presenters for this workshop were Dr. Yimer (NRC), Jennifer Welburn (NRC), Bob Hastings (WestCaRD), Dr. Doug Thomson...
U of M Nanosatellite Success!
Stories from the 3rd Canadian Design Challenge The 3rd iteration of the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge was recently held in Ottawa. An impressive design by the University of Manitoba challenged conventional models for CubeSats by introducing a modular...
Partner News
Generous donation supports UWinnipeg computer revolution
Originally posted by the University of Winnipeg on June 27th 2018 Today, UWinnipeg officially opened the Dr. Ezzat A. Ibrahim GPU Educational Lab, a new cutting-edge research space for applied parallel computing. This new lab is led by the dynamic duo of Dr....
Ready to transition your company into Industry 4.0?
It should be a marathon, not a sprint Originally posted by Erik Leijon on Postmedia Content Works on June 4th 2018 Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither is a company’s transition into Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 — meaning an industrial revolution toward digital...
Industry 4.0: A View from the OECD
Our Aerospace and Manufacturing sectors in Manitoba had an impressive presentation in early March from Alistair Nolan, the Senior Economist for the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...
Rolls-Royce lean-burn combustion engine stars icing tests
Originally published by Rolls-Royce on March 23rd 2018 Rolls-Royce’s demonstrator engine, featuring a new lean-burn and low-emissions combustion system for future jet engine programmes, has started icing tests. The ALECSys (Advanced Low Emissions Combustion System)...
Rolls-Royce Readies For Advance3 Core Test
First all-new big core configuration in 50 years paves way for next-gen Advance and UltraFan Originally published by Guy Norris for Aviation Week on October 19th 2017 Just over 3.5 years after unveiling its future large civil engine development road map, Rolls-Royce...
Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97 Certified
Approval for A350-1000 aircraft engine follows Trent 1000 certification earlier in August Originally published on MRO-Network by James Pozzi on September 5th, 2017 Rolls-Royce’s Trent XWB-97 engine variant has received formal flight certification which the OEM said...
Feds to announce $10M investment in city’s aerospace industry
Originally published by Larry Kusch for the Winnipeg Free Press on August 1st 2017 The federal government is pumping $10 million into Winnipeg's aerospace industry, with the expectation that the innovation and training money will help create new...
2017 Paris Air Show in Photos
Originally published by Paul Ridden on June 21st, 2017 for New Atlas. The 52nd edition of the Paris Air Show has taken over Le Bourget Airport in Paris this week, with aircraft makers big and small trying to secure business deals before the gates open to the public...
Big Data Tipped to Transform Industry
An international law firm has tipped big data and predictive analysis to to transform aviation. Originally published by Alex Deber on June 29th, 2017 for MRO-Network Big data and predictive analysis are set to transform aviation in the next five years, according to...
Planning for the Future of Manufacturing in Winnipeg
On Tuesday June 13, 2017 Manitoba aerospace, manufacturing and related interests gathered to discuss how and what Factories of the Future (FOTF) would resemble in Manitoba. A name change is likely to take place for this project, but for the time being this is a well...