The rise and fall of Canada's domestic PPE market

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Most Canadian businesses that answered federal and provincial calls during the pandemic to build up a domestic sector for personal protective equipment have…

He received about $2 million in grant money from Ontario and put in about $6 million to build a plant to make masks in Collingwood, Ont.

“I’m pissed off,” Irwin said. “We did nothing wrong, all we did was make a better product that’s been ignored.”Article contentPaul Sweeny runs Swenco in Waterloo, Ont., a business started by his father 60 years ago. Sweeny now has 11 machines in his plant, a massive clean room, automated packaging and robots. The plant has the capacity to make upwards of 25 million masks a month and employ 60 people. But that isn’t happening right now.Article content“Just give me an order so we can get the machines operational.”

Hunt runs a company that makes reusable and biodegradable respirators — made from corn — with no hard plastic or metal, and believed after conversations with the federal and provincial governments that he, and other Canadian companies, would get business from them.The province’s Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery did not answer questions about the deals with 3M and Quebec’s Medicom, or if it planned to help the struggling PPE companies.

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