Peterborough
Quick Facts
Province: Ontario
Population: 74,898
The Greater Peterborough Area (GPA) is ideally positioned for growth. Just over an hour’s drive from the Greater Toronto Area, six million people reside within a 200 mile/320 kilometer radius of the region. The GPA’s proximity to major markets in Canada and the north eastern United States, combined with effective transportation systems that include an expanding commercial airport, rail links to North American markets and four-lane access to Canada’s major thoroughfare, Highway 401 less than 30 minutes away, makes Peterborough an unparalleled setting as a business location.
Key Advantages
- One of Canada’s leading advanced manufacturing communities, thanks to its reserve of skilled engineers, production workers, machinists, millwrights and tool & die makers
- Exploits its natural surroundings to develop noteworthy local expertise in environmental sciences while continuing to support the more established sectors of agriculture and food processing
- Emerging centre of excellence for DNA research and commercial development with the new DNA building on the Trent University campus fostering public and private sector collaboration
- Fully serviced industrial parks at strategic transportation nodes
- Major head offices already call Peterborough home—PepsiCo Foods Canada, Baskin Robbins, Sysco Food Services, Minute Maid, General Electric, SGS Lakefield Research, Siemens, Americredit and Automed Technologies (Canada) Ltd.
- Fast-growing manufacturing sector supported by a recently-introduced $850,000 Manufacturers Training Initiative
- Respected institutions such as Trent University and Fleming College offer R&D partnership opportunities
Sector Strengths
- Life Sciences: DNA and Biotechnology
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Food Processing
- Agriculture
- Tourism
