Wood cutlery maker eyes northwest partnerships – Northern Ontario Business

July 24, 2014

A British Columbia entrepreneur, who makes award-winning compostable wooden cutlery, said he wants to expand his presence in northwestern Ontario.

Aspenware president Terry Bigsby sources poplar veneer from a First Nation-owned sawmill near Ear Falls and is looking to cultivate more Aboriginal fibre-based partnerships in the Western provinces and Ontario as his Okanagan Valley company continues to grow.

He’s still rekindling the idea of a factory in Northern Ontario to tap into the U.S. Midwest and southern Ontario markets, a concept he first proposed for the Dryden area in 2010.

“I wouldn’t start everybody’s wheels going if that didn’t have some merit.”