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WINDSOR, ONT. The Ontario government is investing nearly $850,000 in a Windsor-based company to locally produce Pine-Sol Multi-Surface Cleaner-Disinfectant to expand the emergency stockpile. Dimachem Inc. is planning to manufacture about 12 million bottles of Pine-Sol per year and create 14 jobs. The province says the disinfectant has been proven to be effective in killing SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, on frequently-used hard, non-porous surfaces. The funding is being flowed through the Ontario Together Fund. Details were provided Wednesday by Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade. Ontario has strong supply chains, a skilled workforce and the manufacturing might to make the emergency supplies we need here at home, without having to rely on other jurisdictions, said Minister Fedeli. It is because of companies like Dimachem that Ontario is well-equipped with a reliable domestic supply of PPE and other ....