ST, HUBERT, Que. - A new aerospace research and training centre that will help to find ways to recycle materials from old aircraft is now operating near Montreal.
Labs at the newly opened Centre technologie en aerospatiale will be responsible for the recycling efforts.
The federal and Quebec governments gave $12 million to fund the centre's new research and development program.
Canada's aerospace industry generates annual revenues of $22 billion and employs nearly 80,000 Canadians.
Some of the country's major aerospace industry companies — from pilot simulator maker CAE Inc. to aircraft manufacturer Bombardier are global leaders in their fields.
Industry Minister Christian Paradis said the $3.2 million provided by Ottawa was part of a 2009 infrastructure job-creation program designed to deal with the impact of the 2008-2009 recession.
In a related development, the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, one of Canada's largest engineering schools, will get a $675,000 federal grant to study the management of aircraft at the end of their life cycle.
As part of the $1.4-million project, the school will use the new research centre's labs to explore and devise procedures for dismantling, parting out and recycling materials from old aircraft.
It's estimated that, over the next 20 years, between 250 and 300 commercial planes will be taken out of service every year.
The school said in a release that research will focus on getting maximum use out of recycled aircraft parts.
It's already been offered a Bombardier CRJ200 that has reached the end of its lifespan.
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