Vision & Mission

To be the leading provider of environmentally and socially sustainable natural fibre products in North America.

Mission

Our mission is to deliver the most advanced natural fibre products to our customers, through environmentally and socially sustainable manufacturing practices.

Values

RESPECTFUL:

The strategy of TTS is about the convergence of its strengths, which were built since its inception in 1998, with an opportunity to develop a privately owned, fee-for-service, natural fibre incubator in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

A technology rich, natural fibre based industry is emerging worldwide. Canada has a distinct competitive advantage in many related opportunities given its rich allocation of fertile land, developed markets for the traditional uses of fibre crops, experience in agriculture and forestry, and the strength of technologies currently available. A key hurdle in accelerating the growth of this industry is capacity and experience in growing technologies up from the lab bench and into commercial production.

TTS has created an incubator for natural fibre technologies and companies. It is a response to the business opportunity that exists in helping companies develop technologies and create products. TTS is ideally suited to capture this opportunity: its experience in product development and process improvement and its strong network within the natural fibre industry make it a key partner; its technological assets and production capacity fill a critical resource gap for the industry; and its global reputation and understanding of opportunities emerging in the natural fibre space make it an asset in this important new industry.

The overall objective of TTS is to strengthen its capacity as an incubator. TTS is currently focused on pilot fabrication of composites to bridge the gap between basic lab-scale research and development and  commercialization of products and technologies in the natural fibre industry.