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Covid-19

Made Smarter: Strategic Supply Challenge

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Other Closed Challenge Programs:

  • Autonomous Disinfection Robot Challenge

  • Covid-19 Rapid Response Challenge

Securing Our Supply Chains

In the summer of 2020, NGen challenged companies to employ advanced manufacturing technologies to build a sustainable, made-in-Canada, cost competitive supply of critical products that can be used in Canada’s fight against COVID-19 and beyond.

$27 M

NGen Investment

$60 M

New Manufacturing Capacity

Building Domestic Manufacturing Capacity

The challenge funding supports twelve Canadian companies and their project partners, representing a total combined investment of over $60 million to develop advanced manufacturing projects. Product categories include a made-in-Canada mRNA vaccine, biological reagents, environmentally friendly PPE, sanitizers & antimicrobials, surgical grade masks and respirators.

12

Project Consortia

30

Project Partners

Funding Recipients

Providence Therapeutics Holdings Inc., Toronto, ON 
The BIG-nano Corporation., Waterloo, ON 
McRae Imaging, Mississauga, ON
Fine Cotton Factory, Etobicoke, ON
Fidelity Machine & Mould, Calgary, AB
Prescientx, Cambridge, ON,
Molded Precision Components (MPC), Oro Medonte, ON 
Titan Clean Energy Project Corp., Craik, SK,
Carmina De Young Fashion Design Inc., London, ON
Artofix, Longueuil, QC
International Point of Care INC. (IPOC), Toronto, ON 
Novo Textiles, Coquitlam, BC  

Read the full press release here



 

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