The Lucknow Sentinel, 2016-11-23, Page 66 Lucknow Sentinel • Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Gay Lea Foods spending $60 million to upgrade Teeswater plant
Denis Langlois
Owen Sound Sun Times
A plan by Gay Lea Foods
to spend $60 million to
upgrade its processing plant
in Teeswater will be the sin-
gle largest investment in
dairy in Ontario in more
than a decade, says the co-
operative's president and
CEO.
Michael Barrett said the
project, which will take two
years to complete, will lead
to the creation of more jobs
in Teeswater and also
secures the long-term future
of employment at the plant.
"I'm absolutely thrilled,"
he said in an interview on
Nov. 16, 2016.
"Number 1 because we're
leading in the dairy indus-
try. Number 2 because our
farmer board and our
farmer members are ready
to make this investment in
the sustainable dairy indus-
try. But also, we have a lot of
plants in a lot of small com-
munities and I know what
this means to the life and
the livelihood of the
communities.
"This is one of the best
days of my life as CEO of Gay
Lea Foods because this is the
right investment, in the right
time at the right place for the
right people."
Barrett noted that the
Canadian owned and oper-
ated dairy co-operative's
Teeswater location is an
inter -generational plant at
which many current
employees' parents and
grandparents also worked.
"And of course there's
always angst as to what
happens to an employer,
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especially when you've got
almost a single -employer
town there are always wor-
ries. And there are a lot of
happy faces around here
today because of the invest-
ments being made," he
said.
The project will involve
the installation of a new,
state-of-the-art milk dryer.
The co-operative has
already begun ordering
equipment for the upgrade,
with actual construction
expected to begin in the
spring, Barrett said.
Most of the work will be
done within the existing
footprint of the Teeswater
plant.
"It's kind of like renovating
the old farmhouse. The out-
side looks the same but the
inside is going to be all shiny,
new and modern," he said.
"We will be putting a new
dryer into this facility and
once that's done we'll be tak-
ing out the old dryer so there
won't be an interruption to
the milk flow, to employ-
ment or to the economic via-
bility of this plant over the
next 24 months:'
The work will nearly dou-
ble the capacity of the plant,
he said.
Barrett said it's too early to
say how many jobs will be
created once the upgrade is
complete. But he said dou-
bling the capacity doesn't
mean doubling the number
of employees, which cur-
rently sits at 85.
South Bruce Mayor Bob
Buckle said he is quite
pleased that Gay Lea Foods
will be expanding its opera-
tion in Teeswater.
"It not only will create jobs
but it will protect the 80 or so
jobs that are already here
and that's really important,"
he said.
South Bruce council, he
said, has been working
closely with the co-operative
for several years as it works
on an expansion plan.
Since the Gay Lea plant is
in a flood plain, regulations
limit the expansion of the
facility.
However, a project to
update flood plan mapping
in Teeswater is happening
now, according to the Sau-
geen Valley Conservation
Authority. General manager
Wayne Brohman said the
project is a priority.
Barrett said since most of
the work will be within the
plant's existing footprint, the
co-operative does not fore-
see any issues with the pro-
ject going ahead.
The Teeswater project is
the first phase of Gay Lea
Foods' plan to invest $140
million over four years to
"establish an innovative
nutrition and nutraceutical -
grade dairy ingredients hub
in Canada."
Phase 1 also includes
spending $3 million to build
a research and development
"Centre of Excellence" in
Hamilton. The co-operative's
Toronto -area food manufac-
turing facilities will also be
upgraded and expanded as
part of Phase 1.
Barrett noted that the
dairy industry is becoming
more and more
sophisticated.
Milk, he said, contains
thousands of components
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Gay Lea Foods will spend
$60 million to upgrade its
Teeswater plant over the next
two years.
and advancements in tech-
nology now allows compa-
nies to extrapolate compo-
nents for use in other
products.
For example, ingredients
can be extracted for nutra-
ceutical drinks and medi-
cines, like Ensure.
Based in Mississauga. Gay
Lea Foods currently employs
more than 950 people in
production facilities across
Ontario. It is comprised of
1,300 members, most of
which are rural farmers.
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