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How Canada can regain its former glory as a manufacturer of things the world will want to buy.
The order book of Canadian manufacturing company Can Art Aluminium Extrusion LP is nothing short of a catalogue of bids from most of the world's leading carmakers, who are now actively investing in electric vehicle manufacturing.
Anthony Caputo, CEO and co-owner of Can Art Aluminium Extrusion LP, plans that in the very near future his company, based in Brampton, Ontario, will become a leading engineering hub in the global auto industry production chain because it produces some of the most important auto parts: the aluminium bodies that protect the batteries of electric cars.
"Our company is actively involved in launching 50 percent of the electric car programs in North America," says Caputo. — Of course, there's Tesla Inc. as well as the Mustang Mach E with their battery-powered Ford Motor Co. The German carmakers Mercedes from Daimler AG and Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) are also developing in this direction. Now quite a few people are thinking about buying Tesla and other electric cars, and that's great, because we have room to develop.
Canadian auto industry
Indeed, Canada, which is now actively collaborating with major auto giants, looks like a contender to win the competition to build the next generation of cars. According to Caputo, the country has everything it needs to become a crucial part of the global electric car industry: the minerals needed to produce batteries, as well as a well-developed steelmaking industry.
Also, Lion Electric Co. of Montreal and NFI Group Inc. of Winnipeg are actively marketing their electric buses, and BRP Inc. of Quebec and new company Taiga Motors Corp. are preparing to produce electric snowmobiles.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford have already loaned hundreds of millions of CAD to Ford, General Motors Co. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to finance the refurbishment of those plants, located in Canada, to produce electric cars. And the Automotive Parts Association of Canada is sponsoring the Arrow project, which aims to create an electric-powered concept car by 2022.
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