NMA Members Re-tooling, Adding Lines and Donating Thousands to support the Northumberland community
It all started with an email from an NMA partner and a tweet from Canadian Chamber of Commerce Perrin Beatty – manufacturers are needed to manufacturer and produce PPE.
Over the course of 6 weeks, we have seen Northumberland Manufacturers step up in these extraordinary times and either re-tool or add to their lines; the ability to provide support for the medical supply chain. With the tremendous need of PPE in our local community and across the province, our manufacturers took this rare opportunity to show how flexible, integrated, and supportive we are of our overall County and the health of its people.
We have also seen local manufacturers give back to our community via donated funds or donate overstocked PPE or donating to local Food Banks - the list goes on and on.
“The community of Northumberland is so proud of our manufacturing industry. They moved quickly and efficiently to assess the needs of our local and provincial communities”, stated NMA Managing Director Darla Price.
Check out some of the amazing work we’re doing!
Sunspace Sunrooms
- currently building and installing hygiene barriers for retail and business locations
Millard Towers
– 3D printing parts for face shields
Belden Canada – 3D printing parts for face shields
MicroFactory Coop
– 3D printing parts for face shields, and assembly
MotionPac
- built the components for a web feeding system
Protoplast Inc
– producing parts for ventilators, development stage to produce face shields
Lakeland Multi-Trade
– installing hygiene barriers in the workplace.
Sabic Innovative Plastics
– donated important materials for PPE production
Canadian Wear Technologies
– 3D printing parts for face shields
Custom Plastics International
- design work for components for face shields, 3D printed prototypes and continue to print components as capacity permits. Developing a re-usable mask with replaceable filter element which is currently in testing.
Venture13
– location of 3D printing, assembly and sanitation
Cameco
- has committed $250,000 in relief funds to Northumberland and Blind River communities for charities and non profits.
Structural Panels
- Donor to Market Community Food Box program
We’d like to give a big shout out and thank you to our NMA partners who are driving some of these new initiatives:
Durham College, Northumberland Community Futures Development Corp., Northumberland Makers and BDC
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