The first unit has rolled off the assembly line at a manufacturing facility in Port Coquitlam.
It’s a military truck, one of several to be built under a 60-million-dollar defence contract.
Ray Castelli, the CEO of the firm building the trucks, Weatherhaven, says the contract has created about 100 new jobs in the region, “One of the key things we’ve trIed to do at Weatherhaven is to build the local supply chain to a level where they can do military-level specification work. And that’s very important because there’s a number of other procurements coming down the road in the future, like the shipbuilding contract, where they’re going to be looking for suppliers here in BC to do military-spec work.”
He says it’s the culmination of the last three years spent designing, constructing and testing out prototypes and preparing the facility for production.
The contract is meant to benefit nine companies on the Lower Mainland.
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