# 3M Canada expands Brockville facility for N95 respirator production

3M Canada, with $23.33 million from Ontario and federal governments and $70 million of its own capital, is expanding its Brockville, Ontario facility to produce N95 respirators. The project will create 30 jobs and supply 50 million respirators annually starting in early 2021.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2020-08-21
- Where: Brockville, Ontario, Canada
- Value: $52.5M (70.0M CAD)
- Jobs: 30
- Starts operating: Q1 2021
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 50 million respirators annually
- Products: N95 respirators
- Sectors: [Industrial Textiles](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-textiles.md)

## Companies

- [3M Canada](https://endata.com/companies/49330.md)

## Sources

- [news.ontario.ca](https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/58102/ontario-partners-with-federal-government-and-3m-canada-on-new-n95-respirator-manufacturing-facility), 2020-08-21: "The expanded facility will produce enough respirators to meet private sector, provincial and North American market demand throughout the pandemic and beyond."

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