EDMONTON — Alberta is cutting business taxes and pumping $10 billion into infrastructure projects to springboard its economy out of the financial crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Advancing Alberta’s manufacturing sector is the goal behind a new initiative launched by Central Alberta Access Prosperity this week.

While many countries have struggled with shortages of medical supplies during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, Canada has been able to maintain a functioning stock of vitally important personal protective equipment (PPE)-specifically face masks, isolation gowns, and examination gloves.

Alberta Health Services is receiving 200 ventilators, designed by a group of local companies, to bolster the province’s supply during the COVID-19 pandemic and ahead of any future waves.

The Alberta government is providing $40 million in funding to accelerate technology development for the agriculture, agri-food and forestry sectors.

Oil’s recent rebound is being linked to signs that demand for fuel is growing in China and North America

Manufacturing has been in the middle of the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) from the start. The impact is expanding as the virus spreads.

Industry stakeholders join forces to support a central supply and demand platform aimed at quickly addressing supply shortages of PPE and critical COVID-19 related products

February marked the opening of FPS Food Process Solutions Corp.’s newest manufacturing facility in Richmond. It added another 80,000 square feet of factory space for the Canadian producer of freezing and cooling equipment.

The state of manufacturing is always a combination of tried and true methods; improvements (sometimes dramatic) in traditional processes; and brand new technology few people even conceived of a few years ago.