Research & Emerging Technology

Transforming Ideas into Environmental Action

Vertex understands the importance of developing technology to streamline processes and reinforce our position as a leader in the environmental services industry. Innovation and emerging technologies continue to play a vital role across all major industry sectors and have proven to be integral to environmental operations. Guided by long-standing core values, Vertex remains committed to continuous evolution and the creation of positive, long-term, and sustainable change.

Through innovation and collaboration with our clients, Vertex is dedicated to advancing research initiatives while embracing new and emerging technologies. We place equal emphasis on developing innovative tools and adapting proven nature-based solutions to better align with today’s environmental landscape.

• RESTART – Changing the Future of Reforestation

  RESTART is an innovative and cost-efficient approach to reforestation and revegetation. Vertex environmental professionals identify areas of forest floor that contain biodiverse and nutrient-rich compositions of desired plant species. Through a patented compression process, the forest floor is reduced in volume while concentrating biological material, enhancing vegetation growth, and improving storage and transportation efficiency.

  At Vertex, our goal is to deliver a simplified and cost-effective alternative to traditional reforestation and revegetation methods. RESTART provides a reliable source of native plants, seeds, and vegetation propagules, helping reshape the future of reforestation practices.

  Advantages of RESTART

  • Improves efficiency of direct placement
  • Maximizes use of forest floor, where one hectare of salvaged material can reclaim up to fifty hectares of disturbed land
  • Reduces transportation costs and simplifies logistics
  • Enables sharing of the forest floor between reclamation sites
  • Improves the survivability and competitiveness of establishing vegetation
  • Preserves seeds, propagules, nutrients, fungi, microorganisms, and organic matter
  • Can be applied beneath established tree cover where understory conditions are favorable
  • Creates microsites that support vegetation establishment
  • Applicable to peatland, native grasslands, and tundra environments

  

• Honey Bee Project

  The Vertex Honey Bee Project leverages the natural abilities of honey bees to support the restoration of disturbed landscapes. By integrating honey bees into reclamation programs, pollination of key plant species is increased, leading to improved genetic diversity and stronger ecological resilience.

  In addition to reclamation benefits, honey bees and their products, including honey, propolis, and wax are used to monitor ecosystem health. The project also creates local training and employment opportunities while supporting the recovery of declining global honey bee populations.

  

  An Environmental Partnership

  • Efficient and effective pollination
  • Supports ecosystem restoration
  • Enhances plant community development
  • Increases use of native plant species
  • Improves yields of native berry crops
  • Provides training and employment opportunities
  • May increase propagule content in topsoil
  • Applicable across a variety of ecosystems
  • Honey bee products create a value-added reclamation process
• Rootsicles

  Rootsicles are an alternative to traditional seedling planting methods and are designed to create greenhouse like conditions for root cuttings planted outdoors. This approach has demonstrated improved cost-efficiency and effectiveness when compared to conventional revegetation techniques.

• Vertex Growth Chamber

  Similar to growth chambers operated by government and academic institutions, the Vertex Growth Chamber provides industries with soil and seed analysis and testing. This facility supports successful reforestation and reclamation by allowing growing conditions to be evaluated and optimized prior to field application.