Toronto Company Expands Ventilator Production Tenfold to Meet Demand

Toronto Company Expands Ventilator Production Tenfold to Meet Demand
A prototype of an emergency response ventilator is pictured at a lab in Vancouver on March 27, 2020. Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA—One of the companies making ventilators for the federal government is expanding its production capacity more than tenfold to meet demands created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Another one has never been part of making ventilators before but is working with several other companies to update an old prototype and get as many as 10,000 new ventilators built in a matter of months.