COVID-19, so he’s invested half a million dollars renting warehouse space in Ottawa.He’s also hiring staff and importing a mask-making machine from China.
The hope is Canadian consumers will prefer to buy masks made in this country instead of another one.“If our material and our finished product is a comparable price to what they were paying before that, they’ll consider swapping over to a Canadian company to buy that product,” said Dugal in an interview with Global News.
His company, Viral Clean, is trying to stand out by making masks that will stand out. Dugal says they’ll be manufacturing masks in a variety of colours and patterns.