New $44M Oakville Plant Will Build 5G Parts Now Bought From the U.S.

A new Oakville plant will make a part the province currently buys from the United States. Concast Pipe is building a 100,000 square foot facility to produce the composite enclosure boxes that house 5G network equipment, and Ontario is putting $5 million toward the $44 million project.

The company, a precast concrete supplier, had been sourcing those boxes from U.S. manufacturers. The Oakville plant will be the first of its kind in Ontario, and it is expected to create 15 new full-time jobs while protecting 186 existing ones.

Premier Doug Ford announced the funding on November 10 and tied it directly to trade pressure from the United States, saying the government is doing whatever it takes to protect workers and businesses while tariffs hit Ontario's economy.

The facility will run structural foam and web injection production lines, which is what lets Concast serve the domestic market for telecom infrastructure parts. The provincial money comes from the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Competitiveness stream of the Regional Development Program, a program that has been helping businesses buy equipment and train workers since 2019.

Oakville MPP Stephen Crawford called the expansion a signal of confidence in the region's manufacturing capacity.