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To honour manufacturers’ efforts, Canadian Manufacturing, PLANT and EP&T hosted the Responding to COVID-19: Industry Leadership Honours. Photo: Stephen Uhraney When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across Canada and by March the country was shutdown, it was evident the healthcare system was short of personal protective equipment, ventilators and other safety supplies. Manufacturers and other suppliers responded to a federal government call to action by shifting their operations to produce COVID-related supplies, which meant buying equipment, securing suppliers and quickly ramping up production. Their innovations and agility resulted in a steady flow of safety supplies and the development of hospital equipment for frontline healthcare workers and consumers. To honour their efforts, Canadian Manufacturing, PLANT and EP&T magazines (Annex Business Media) hosted the Responding to COVID-19: Industry Leadership Honours, covering 10 categories. This virtual event was spon ....
Kickstart: Who s ready to be done with 2020? Who s ready to be done with 2020? Welcome to the final Kickstart of 2020. I d love to make some proclamation here declaring that we re leaving behind all that made 2020 so difficult, but we all know that the medical and economic trials aren t over yet. So I ll resist the temptation to put a tidy bow on the year that was. For the record, the first time Plastics News mentioned the coronavirus was the Jan. 24 Kickstart, when it was a flu-like illness that had appeared in Wuhan, China. Automakers and suppliers in the region were curtailing travel and keeping an eye on health guidelines. ....
Top 10 Canadian Plastics stories of 2020 A look at our top 10 most-visited news stories and feature articles of the year. December 22, 2020 Canadian Plastics It’s no surprise that COVID-19 dominated the news cycle in 2020, which is why most of our top 10 most-visited stories of the year centred around the fallout and the business impact from the pandemic, as well as the responses of several Canadian companies. But it wasn’t all COVID-19, however: single-use plastic bans and a series of transformative changes at the Canadian Plastics Industry Association also drew large numbers of readers. And then there’s that unique beach house in Nova Scotia… ....