for the plant that’s been improving quietly for years —
SR&ED for manufacturing & process industries
The reforms reopened a decade of capital-heavy R&D.
Process control, new lines, hydrogen supply chain, scaling a method that had never been run at your volume. If the outcome was uncertain, the spend is likely recoverable.
What Bill C-15 changed
Capital’s back
Eligible again for property acquired or leased on or after Dec 16, 2024 — first time since 2014.
The Industrial Heartland is capital-expenditure-heavy — which is exactly what Bill C-15 brought back into scope.
Typical qualifying activities
Process control
Tuning, automating, or stabilizing a process where the optimal setpoints weren’t known.
Scaling a method
Running a process at a volume or tolerance it had never been proven at.
New materials & alloys
Qualifying a substitute material or treatment where performance was uncertain.
Hydrogen & clean energy
Tier-2/3 supply-chain work for the Heartland’s net-zero hydrogen build-out.
Custom tooling & automation
Building equipment or cells to do something off-the-shelf kit couldn’t.
Capital & pilot lines
Capital on equipment and pilot lines — eligible again under Bill C-15.
Client pattern · anonymized
An oilfield-equipment maker engineering for conditions that defeat standard instrumentation — measuring position and very high loads where conventional Hall-effect, proximity and strain sensors fail in a harsh downhole environment, to enable semi-automation. Genuine field R&D that had never been documented for SR&ED.
We mapped the technical uncertainty and the newly-eligible capital into one coherent narrative.
Real work we’ve claimed
Sound familiar?
Almost every one of these started the same way: the standard, off-the-shelf approach didn’t work, and nobody could tell them why. Figuring it out — including all the approaches that failed — is exactly what SR&ED is for.
A precision millwork shop needed a door that lets air through for pressure balance but still blocks sound — two things that fight each other, since sound travels on air. Off-the-shelf soundproofing didn’t do it. Figuring out a vent shape that cancels sound while passing air took a lot of experiments, and that’s the claim.
A shop had to machine big, smooth curved panels that a standard CNC simply can’t cut cleanly — too much material, too much tool wear, rough edges. They ended up abandoning machining altogether and inventing a way to bend the material instead. Every approach they ruled out along the way is documented evidence.
A finishing team wanted a flawless high-gloss finish in a normal, dusty workshop instead of an expensive clean room — where a single speck of dust shows. Thick coats cracked and bubbled. The layer-cure-sand recipe they worked out to beat that is real experimental development.
An electronics team was pushing a chip far past what they’d done before, and suddenly hit noise and glitches they couldn’t explain — it turned out the new processor’s memory behaved in ways the documentation didn’t spell out. Tracing that and engineering around it is squarely SR&ED.
A hardware shop chased a noise floor lower than almost anyone in the industry hits. That meant isolating power, signal, and control in ways the standard layouts don’t allow, and burning through plenty of designs that didn’t work first. All of that effort is recoverable.
An equipment maker needed sensors that keep working in a brutal field environment where the normal ones just fail. They had to improvise unconventional ways to measure position and load. That kind of “the standard part won’t survive, so we built our own approach” work qualifies.
Bought equipment since December 2024? Start there.
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