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The following video includes scenes of the Toronto city skyline, and interiors of the Invest Ontario offices as well as interviews with both the Investment Project Lead for Invest Ontario, Daanish Hussain, as well as President of Asahi Kasei Battery Separator Canada, Sam Mills. Additional footage from a press conference is also included.

Invest Ontario x AsahiKASEI

Toronto, Ontario 

Daanish Hussain:
This investment is a monumental one, for, not just for Ontario but for Canada as well.

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Daanish Hussain - Investment Project Lead - Invest Ontario

Daanish Hussain:
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

Hon. Doug Ford - Premier of Ontario

A press conference in a warehouse with various dignitaries including Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Doug Ford, standing at a podium in front of several pieces of heavy machinery. The front of the podium reads: Strengthening our EV Supply Chain

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

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Continued interviews and footage of the Invest Ontario offices.

Sam Mills:
We want to make the world a better place. 

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Sam Mills - President - Asahi Kasei Battery Separator Canada

Sam Mills:
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.

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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The warehouse press conference continues, showing national and international dignitaries seated in front of  branded vehicles reading "Port Colborne", and "Niagara Canada"

Hon. Victor Fedeli - 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. 

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