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A Windsor-based company is opening a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Chatham-Kent to produce top-quality surgical isolation gowns as it forges ahead with its goal of reducing Canada’s reliance of foreign companies to provide this vital person protective equipment.
Harbour Technologies announced Monday it is expanding its operations to the municipality.
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“The plan is to add production capacity with 11 robotic lines for isolation gown manufacturing in a 38,000-square-foot facility we’ve leased on Richmond Street in Chatham,” said Andrew Glover, Harbour’s co-owner and engineering manager.
CHATHAM More manufacturing jobs are coming to Chatham-Kent as Harbour Technologies is opening new production lines to make automated equipment for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). “The plan is to add production capacity with 11 robotic lines for isolation gown manufacturing in a 38,000 square foot facility we ve leased on Richmond Street in Chatham,” said Andrew Glover, Harbour s co-owner and Engineering Manager. “Once the plant is fully operational, we ll need about 80 full-time, skilled employees to help us meet growing demand for our products.” While traditional gowns feature hand-stitched seams, Harbour s are welded during automated assembly, offering end users superior clinical value, comfort and durability. The move places Chatham on the front lines of domestic PPE manufacturing, critical to rebuilding Canada s pandemic response capabilities.
December 23, 2020
Chatham-Kent’s mayor is trying to stay positive in the face of a province-wide lockdown to help stem the tide of COVID-19.
Darrin Canniff says it’s up to all of us to do our part.
“There’s a sense of frustration, we’ve been working really hard to keep our numbers lower here, but it’s ultimately we have a lot of people who move between Windsor-Essex and here to work,” Canniff says.
CK’s Mayor says no one is looking forward to another shut-down, but it’s for the greater good.
“I’m proud of how well the residents of Chatham-Kent have come together over the past 10 months to support and look after each other,” said Mayor Canniff. “This will hopefully be our last big push to get things heading back in the right direction and to keep everyone safe and healthy. I know that together we can do it.”
December 16, 2020
Chatham-Kent officials have a message for those in areas with higher COVID-19 caseloads – stay safe, but stay home.
Chatham-Kent is currently in the province’s Yellow-Protect level of COVID restrictions, while neighbouring Middlesex-London is in the Red-Control group and Windsor-Essex is in Grey-Lockdown.
There’s been some backlash on social media by those who believe Chatham-Kent should be more welcoming to potential shoppers and diners from other communities who can’t shop as freely in their own region.
However, Director of Economic Development Stuart McFadden says it’s not personal, it’s business.
“They say it’s us against them, Chatham-Kent is doing this, Chatham-Kent is doing that, they won’t allow us in and I’ll never shop there again…” McFadden says. “We want people to come to our community, we want our businesses to be in business, but we also recognize right now it’s very serious. It’s important that we don’t let our