Work will soon begin to spin off the National Research Council of Canada’s (NRC)’s Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (CPFC) into a commercial entity. According to the Canadian government, The future spinoff will attract private sector capital to scale the CPFC’s operations, expand the Canadian supply chain of photonic manufacturing capabilities, and provide more effective and timely services to Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises at the forefront of AI compute and quantum technologies.

Canada to Spin Off, Commercialize Photonics Fabrication Centre | Business | May 2026 | Photonics Spectra,
Future spin-off of the NRC’s Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre