Pilot and Demo Plants
Services
Pilot and Demo Plants
LEADERS IN CREATING PATHWAYS TO COMMERCIALIZATION FOR OVER TWO DECADES
BCRI’s Technology Innovation and Commercialization Centre has a 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m²) facility that contains a pilot plant development and operations area with 30 ft (9.2m) vertical clearance, wet laboratory space, onsite state-of-the-art analytical chemistry equipment, engineering and design office space, as well as a fabrication shop and fenced outdoor piloting space. Technologies are scaled up from concept to pilot or demonstration scale in preparation for commercialization.
SERVICES
Built in Canada - Our Pilot and Demonstration Plants and Modular Systems are Designed, Constructed and Assembled in Canada
Design and Engineering
The Pilot Group is part of the BCRI/NORAM/Axton family and brings together a multidisciplinary team of engineers and designers to support clients’ pilot or demonstration plant projects. The group’s expertise is in the engineering and design of pilot and demonstration plants. This expertise is honed and enhanced by the regular cross-training that staff receives on different key areas of technology commercialization. This broad experience is an important part of the group’s success. The successful design of a pilot or demonstration plant hinges on important factors such as the interpretation and conversion of R&D data into practical design requirements or the careful consideration of “scalability” factors from bench-scale to pilot/demonstration/commercial plants. By choosing the Pilot Group, our engineers and designers can help your concept or technology grow to its full potential.
Construction and Assembly
Pilot Plant Hosting and Operations
WHY CHOOSE US?
The Right Design, The Right Solution
The Right Team, The Right Tools
The Right Experience
The Right Set Of Skills
The Pilot Group’s expertise is the design and assembly of pilot plants and demonstration plants. Through constant cross-training, skills and methodology are honed, leading to strong project execution and performance. Members of our group benefit from being regularly cross-trained at our family of companies: BC Research (R&D), Axton (fabrication, machining, assembly), and NORAM (engineering). This cross-training provides client’s pilot plant or demonstration plant projects with a team of engineers and designers that can:
– Properly interpret R&D data when designing a system.
– Understand the fabrication limits and consequences of a proposed design.
– Understand what data must be gathered from a pilot plant or demonstration plant to scale up a process or technology to full commercial size.
Our professionals set us apart, and their continuous training and improvements are key to our success.
DESIGN APPROACH
Why Leave It To Chance?
Every pilot plant, demonstration plant, or modular system, that our group supplies, follows a rigorous design approach. This design approach has been refined for over two decades, and it has at its core a stringent review process aimed at mitigating potential problems before construction and assembly begins. The process includes a vertically integrated approach from design through to commissioning, and well defined gate reviews for clients’ input along the way.
ABOUT
Pilot Group
The Pilot Group has been supplying pilot plants and demonstration plants for over 20 years to a wide range of industries. All engineering, construction and assembly work is done in Canada. The offices and pilot facilities are located in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Pilot Group has a multidisciplinary team of experts that strives to meet or exceed clients’ requirements. Our team’s objective is to work closely with clients to ensure that their pilot plants or demonstration plants provide the right data to allow moving projects into the next phase of the commercialization path.

