[citation needed] In early 2005, McMaster University announced its plans to build a research park on property previously used by an appliance manufacturing company.
CanmetMATERIALS is part of the Department of Natural Resources Canada and relocated from Ottawa to McMaster Innovation Park in 2011 to strategically locate itself at the center of the Canadian manufacturing sector.
South houses over 100 staff who undertake over 100 collaborative research and development projects per year with industry, academia and other government departments.
[3] The McMaster Automotive Resource Centre is one of Canada’s leading research facilities in electric and hybrid vehicles.
The $26-million facility occupies approximately 90,000 square feet on two floors and is one of very few in the world located in an academic setting allowing both private and public sectors to work together to develop, design, and test hybrid technology.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI, located in Leipzig, Germany, has the objective to find solutions to specific problems at the interfaces between medicine, life sciences and engineering for partners active in medicine-related industries and businesses.
Metrolinx plans to build an Operations, Maintenance, and Storage facility (OMSF) for the proposed Hamilton LRT which will run nearby.