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PAGE 8, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY APRIL 20, 1988 whitbybusiness NEW WHITB Y PLANT MAKES LA TEX GLOVES Demand exceeds expectations STEVEN ARLESS, (left), president of Smith and Nephew's Canada operations, shows his company's product to Alvin Curling, Minister of Skills Development. Curling was in Whitby last Tuesday to tour the McEwen Rd. plant which produces 400,000 latex gloves a day. Free Press photo New plant planned by KWS Energy Services By DEBBIE LUCHUK KWS Energy services and president William Skribe wants to be a part of future growth in the Whitby area, so they're joined Swish Maintenance in building newer, larger facilities. "There's an incredible amount of growth in Durham in the next 10 years and we Want to be a part of it," says Skribe. Skribe and golf buddy Mike Ambler bought 10 acres on the northwest corner of Hopkins and Burns for new facilities and for other industrial development. "We will expand our manufacturing capabilities. by building this new building," Skribe says. The company is now located at Wentworth and Thickson. KWS Energy Services installs heating, air conditioning, refrigeration, and gas piping, as part of their mechanical contracting for industrial builders. Electrical contracting, such as wiring, is also offered and KWS manufactures HAVC units, makes up air units, speciality units, and does auto cad design and layout. For their equipment, they have a fleet of service teams and if a company wants help making their plant more energy efficient or would like to set up new energy management systems, KWS can take an energy audit and analyse the areas to be addressed. KWS now employs 30 to 40 people, and has been in business since 1978. With growth "comparable to Mississauga," Skribe sees Durham's industrial future as well as KWS Energy Systems as bright in a new, larger home. Cinema recommended A six-screen cinema complex has been approved by Whitby's administrative committee for the northeast corner of Thickson Rd. S. and Champlain Ave. The cinemas are to be part of a future industrial complex to be built on the same property. The cinemas will have 439 parking spaces, or one space per six seats in the cinema. Parking concerns had been expressed at the recent public meeting. No building elevation accom- panied the application, but plan- ning department has met with the developer, Rick Gay, and has discussed potential designs such as a number of buildings or buildings ranging from one to two stories. The recommendation now goes to council for approval. Gas bar limit removed FROMPAGE 1 The OMB approved that bylaw. An OMB hearing is scheduled to start today (Wednesday) at the Whitby council chambers over a Canadian Tire application for a gas station at the corner of Dundas St. E. and Bowman Ave. Council turned the station down on Oct. 13, noting it would cause further congestion in the area. (Canadian Tire has planned to close its existing station on Brock St. N. if the new one was constructed, so that the Town's gas station limit would not be affected). Bugelli said he would like to see the Town fight the Province's decision and inform the minister the Town opposes the change. Application made for new gas bar The Dundas St. W. car wash owner who had previously received Town approval to expand the operation to eight bays has applied for a gas bar on the property. No comments were made at a public meeting Monday night on the application by Vito Lapolla. Ever-growing concern about AIDS and the risk of infection is creating a huge demand for latex gloves. And to meet that demand, a London, England-based company, Smith and Nephew, has opened a plant in Whitby. Last week, local, regional, and provincial politicians, including Minister of Skills Development Alvin Curling, took a tour of the $6-million plant located on McEwen Dr. The plant employs 60 people and is operating 24 hours a day to help reduce a three-month waiting period for latex gloves. "With AIDS, the demand for gloves is tremendous. We can't make them fast enough," said plant manager Bruce Haick as he led a tour through the 43,000- sq. ft. plant. Haick said the plant produces 400,000 gloves a day with room for expansion. But Curling appeared disa- ppointed when he heard that about 4 per cent of that amount are rejects. Haick told Curling the rejected gloves go to a plant in Ajax for thorough testing and if they are- again rejected, they are disposed as waste. But Haick added that the percentage for rejects will be brought down to one per cent. The plant, which opened recently, sits on five acres of land. In a speech following the tour, Smith and Nephew's chief executive officer Eric Kinder said the company has. grown because it is "honest and simple. "You either produce a quality product today or you die." Kinder said the demand for latex gloves has "exceeded expectations" and technology has had to advance in order to create a better product that will "reduce the risk for people." Kinder also made reference to the Canada-U.S. free trade deal. "When the trade barriers come down, this (North America) is going to be one big market. We will have to coordinate ail our plants and this will be a key plant in that strategy," said Kinder. Hospital day care begins A day care centre opened last week at Whitby Psychiatric Hospital. The work site centre, organized over the past two and a half years by hospital psychologist Maureen Gorman, president of the board of directors, and staff librarian Cathy Ward, vice president of the board, is licensed for 41 children (age four months to five years). So far, about 24 applications have been made. Centre super- visor Kathy Bennett says there's "plenty of room" for more. "It will be first come, first serve basis, says Ward, explaining that applicants need not be hospital employees. The day care facility is in the newly renovated building 16, formerly used for patient care. The cost of the centre was $70,000, with 80 per cent of that amount provided through provin- cial grants and the remainder, about $11,000, raised by hospital organizers through fundraising events. After much organization and planning, Bennett describes as "exciting" the opening of the day care centre, which also came as result of a study which deter- mined that such a centre was needed. 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