The business minds behind a medical mask manufacturing site in Kelowna, B.C., are hoping to be the leading edge of a made-in-Canada movement.
Sometime soon, Breathe Medical Manufacturing Ltd., will be producing 20 million masks a month at its 30,000-square foot facility in the Central Okanagan.
Construction of the building is finished, and, according to company president Warren Jones, the first orders of medical masks will be shipped in the first week of June.
According to Jones, the company will be hiring 30 people at first, and could hire up to 80 employees. The goal, he said, will be to produce up to 40 million masks a month. “We’ve always had that ambition to start this, and as soon as COVID-19 came into being, we wanted to make sure