The unit is part of the Celestica Green Technology Centre of Excellence -- a hub for collaboration between Canada’s engineering, manufacturing and supply chain management experts. Celestica is also active in producing inverters for solar power and is planning inverter production for wind turbines in the last quarter of 2011, according to Mike Andrade, SVP, Emerging Markets, Celestica. Green energy products coming out of the Toronto facility are intended for North American consumption, Andrade explained.

At the Green Technology Centre of Excellence, Celestica is working with a number of companies to develop their ideas, accelerate their go-to market strategy, provide global supply chain expertise and ensure the delivery of quality products and solutions. 

As a result, companies such as Recurrent Energy, Sovello, SMA Canada and Advanced Energy Industries (AEI) are able to compete in this quickly growing sector by leveraging Celestica's global supply chain and engineering expertise.

At the same time, quality, knowledge-driven and manufacturing jobs are retained in the province. Over eighty per cent of Celestica’s focus in Toronto today is on growth opportunities in complex, knowledge-driven advanced manufacturing and related services.

Green technology is just one of the many examples. For instance, the site is providing commercialization services to emerging companies looking to compete on a global scale, after-market services for companies that require a local solution, and is expanding in the industrial and aerospace and defence markets as well.