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The industry has more than $7-billion of new investment activity that remains underway or is scheduled to come into production in late 2021 or early 2022.

There are billions more in large-scale maintenance and other projects that have been put on hold, but will be restarted as soon as possible, writes Bob Masterson, president of the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada. Photograph courtesy of Unsplash
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