ELORA – The Polycorp Ltd. plant in Elora has shut down for a few days for cleaning and sanitization after some employees reported contact with a person who was confirmed positive with COVID-19.
Peter Snucins, CEO of Polycorp, said two employees reported contact with the same person who had tested positive. He said it was not the 66-year-old man confirmed positive in Mount Forest.
He said they sent them home as they did to anybody else who had travelled.
He stressed that nobody at Polycorp, which employs about 240 people, has tested positive but they decided to shutdown the plant Monday out of caution.
“We decided to send everybody else home and also clean the plant over the next three days and re-open on Thursday morning,” Snucins said.
Snucins said the plant is being professionally cleaned and sanitized by “the same people we use at the hospitals.”
The aim is to have the plant reopen on March 26 because the polymer products manufacturer falls under the province’s list of essential businesses. Snucins said employee safety is a number one concern but the plant needs to carry-on with manufacturing.
“We hope the worst is over,” he said. “We’re doing all things humanly possible to make our people safe and to keep going.”
