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Coronavirus: Kitchener educational tech company now making protective equipment for health care workers
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Jeremy Hedges started a technology company called INKSmith four years ago selling educational toys for design thinking and coding to schools.
He said he never imagined he would be using that equipment to manufacture personal protective equipment for health care workers in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic.
Hedges said he currently has about 10 employees, but is looking to hire approximately 100 more workers as the company begins mass producing protective face shields.
After learning that Health Canada had approved his company’s prototype on Monday, the entrepreneur said he is now working with the federal government to laser cut as many face shields as possible. “I think in the short term, we’re going to scale up to meet the needs of
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