Feds give millions to B.C.’s STEMCELL Technologies and HTEC for facility construction
VANCOUVER — The federal government says it’s pumping nearly $100 million into two B.C. firms to support the construction of a hydrogen fuel facility and two “cutting-edge biomanufacturing facilities” for vaccines and other treatments.
The Ministry of Innovation, Science and Industry says North Vancouver-based HTEC, a hydrogen energy firm, is getting $49 million toward a facility that turns “industrial byproduct hydrogen” into fuel.
The ministry says the facility is part of the company’s plan to create a hydrogen fuel station network between B.C. and Alberta, which has also received support from the provincial government and a sizable loan from the Canada Infrastructure Bank last year.
Industry Minister Anita Anand also announced a $49.9-million investment in Burnaby-based STEMCELL Technologies, which will go toward two new biomanufacturing facilities to ramp up production of “specialized inputs that are critical to the development and manufacturing of vaccines, therapies and diagnostics.”
