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Invest Ontario x AsahiKASEI

Toronto, Ontario 

Daanish Hussain - Investment Project Lead - Invest Ontario

Daanish Hussain:
This investment is a monumental one, for, not just for Ontario but for Canada as well. It is the province's and the country's first industrial scale separator manufacturing facility, and of course separators are a primary component of EV batteries.

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Bolstering Ontario's EV supply chain with Canada's first EV battery separator plant

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Hon. Doug Ford - Premier of Ontario

Doug Ford:
Friends, I've said it before: Ontario is a world leader in the electric vehicle revolution.

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Sam Mills - President - Asahi Kasei Battery Separator Canada

Sam Mills:
We want to make the world a better place. We want to be a gamechanger for Port Colborne, Niagara, Ontario. We want to be a gamechanger for the people who live there.

Daanish Hussain:
They were looking to make possibly one of the biggest investments in the firm's history. They really needed somebody who was used to delivering mega projects

Sam Mills:
Invest Ontario did a wonderful job of sort of bringing together players at different levels and different organizations to ensure that we could move quickly and that they could break down any barriers or roadblocks to getting to 'yes'. They were solutions providers, they were answer providers.

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Opportunity Thrives Here

Daanish Hussain:
Invest Ontario supported Asahi Kasei in numerous ways. The first was delivering customized set of data on site specs, on regionally specific labour availability and data. The second was identifying site for this mega project which is a very complex thing. Third was developing a financial support package that met the very specific needs of the company while also staying within our mandate and providing excellent value to taxpayers.

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Hon. Victor Fedeli - Chair of Cabinet - Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade

Victor Fedeli:
This investment is a gamechanger for Ontario's emerging EV ecosystem

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Jim Bradley - Regional Chair - Niagara Region

Jim Bradley:
A project that will undoubtedly shape our local economy for years to come.

Doug Ford:
Together with great companies like Asahi Kasei we're building an end to end electric vehicle supply chain.

Daanish Hussain:
This is extremely, extremely important work. 

Sam Mills:
You don't often get a chance to say, hand on heart you're doing something that's actually changing the course of the planet. If you have a chance in your career, and in your life, to make a difference; you should do it.

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