Business View Civil and Municipal | January 2021

155 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL JANUARY 2021 TOWN OF L INCOLN, ONTAR IO Ontario-made device that decontaminates up to 800 N-95 masks per hour, along with other personal protective equipment.” The Town was very proactive in helping Clean Works get their paperwork through to Health Canada to acquire the $2 million in resource dollars that were allocated to manufacture the device. The Town of Lincoln is also progressively becoming a destination for food and drink tourism, in collaboration with other tourism destinations in Niagara, such as Niagara Falls. They’re working hard to educate the public about their homegrown attractions like Dillon’s Small Batch Distillers, Bench Brewing, and over fruit production and grape growing, and houses the largest concentration of greenhouse operators in Canada, growing a wide variety of flowers for sale throughout Ontario, Quebec, and the U.S. Lincoln also has a strong advanced manufacturing industrial park that is home to many large multinational businesses, such as Ophardt Hygiene Technologies, Dorken Systems Inc., Champion Moyer Diebel Systems, and Cla-Val Canada, to name a few. The Town’s manufacturers produce some of the world’s best sanitization products, pistons, hydraulics, automatic control values, and advanced agricultural farm equipment. Lincoln’s manufacturing products are hot commodities for both domestic and international use. For a town with a population of approximately 24,000 and growing fast, Lincoln boasts a diversified economy – one of the main sectors being agriculture. Other primary sectors include manufacturing, advanced manufacturing, tourism, and value-added agriculture. “When it comes to our agricultural community, we have a large section of tender fruit being grown here,” says Paul Di Ianni, Economic Development Officer. “We have over 143 farms when it comes to grape production, 62 when it comes to peaches, 51 when it comes to pears, and close to nine million square feet of greenhouse space here in the community.” The flower industry in Ontario accounts for $800 million in sales (half of which gets shipped to the U.S.) and Niagara producers account for approximately 50 percent of province-wide production. Of those Niagara growers, the Town of Lincoln happens to be the biggest floriculture supplier. Some fruits and vegetables are being grown under glass as well. “During the pandemic, we had a couple of companies that were so innovative,” says Easton. “One of those was Clean Works, whose co-founder Paul Moyer was already using proprietary technology to sanitize fruits and vegetables against problems like E. coli. They completely reimagined that technology to create the Clean Flow Healthcare Mini – an