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WINDSOR, ONT. MD Masks Inc. and Harbour Technologies are sharing their experience, engineering and knowledge to protect Canadians. “We all felt that the PPE marketplace is taken advantage of and it’s time to pull it in and create jobs,” says Andrew Glover, engineering manager for Harbour Technologies. “We re not competing here, we are trying to manufacture PPE and equipment in our own country, for our people and whoever else needs it,” says Maggie Gurun, owner MD Masks Inc Gurun and her husband Dario, started their business in mid-2020 after months of research into medical masks. She left retirement to start the business “he said why is it that we have to import them, we can do it here.”
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Windsor’s Harbour Technologies and its British Columbia partner Novo Textile Company are among the 12 national winners of the Next Generation Manufacturing Canada’s Strategic Supply Challenge for their development of Made in Canada protective gear used in the pandemic fight.
The partners developed the first Canadian-made N95/PFE95 and N99/PFE99 masks and the automated machinery to produce the cup-shaped respirators. With the win, the local firm gains access to over $1 million in support to further develop its concepts.
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