About 500 acrylic protective barriers will be produced each month
Ontario employer Guide Woodworking is investing nearly $300,000 in a new machining centre at its Mississauga facilities with support of nearly $75,000 from the Ontario Together Fund.
The joint investment will help the company gain the capacity to design and produce about 500 acrylic protective barriers each month for workplaces, including reception areas and service counters.
“Through the Ontario Together Fund, our government is making targeted investments in domestic manufacturers with the ideas and solutions to help us through this pandemic,” said Vic Fedeli, minister of economic development, job creation and trade. “Guide Woodworking and their new capacity to make acrylic protective barriers is another example of Ontario innovation at its very best. Ontario manufacturers continue to enhance our resilience to any challenge while strengthening our economy.”
Ontario has invested $50 million in the renewed Ontario Together Fund in 2021–22. The renewed fund is focused on supporting homegrown manufacturing and innovation to combat COVID-19 and provide other goods critical to the health, safety and security of Ontarians beyond this pandemic. It is doing so under the following strategic pillars:
- strengthening Ontario’s domestic manufacturing capacity
- supporting homegrown technologies and innovative solutions
- strengthening Ontario’s MedTech ecosystem
“The COVID-19 pandemic applied a very difficult strain on our business, and we are grateful for the Government of Ontario’s initiative regarding the Ontario Together Fund with respect to helping businesses like ours rise to the occasion,” said Bass Jubran, operations manager at Guide Woodworking. “By partnering with them through this program, we were able to upgrade our establishment to more efficiently deliver the products that are needed today, namely increasing our ability and capacity to manufacture the types of components and protective barriers that people rely on.”
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