Premier Tech Chronos Expands Caraquet, New Brunswick, Production Plant
02/27/2018
“New Brunswick’s multi-year economic growth plan focuses our efforts on investing to help businesses in the province increase productivity so they can compete on an international scale,” said Premier Brian Gallant.
“It is wonderful to have a company like Premier Tech Chronos grow in New Brunswick, in large part, because of our strong workforce. These investments create jobs so more New Brunswickers can stay here and come back to the province,” he added.
The company, on the Acadian Peninsula near Chaleur Bay and the province’s Atlantic Coast, acquired plying computer numerical control equipment, as well as a milling machine. It also made other improvements to its processes and layout to help increase productivity.
Provincial and federal governments are combining to invest more than $1 million in the $2.25-million project as an incentive.
Opportunities NB is investing $250,000 in the form of a non-repayable contribution with funding from the Regional Development Corporation’s New Brunswick Economic Development and Innovation Fund.
Opportunities NB is a Crown corporation that seeks to attract and support opportunities to grow the economy and create jobs. It provides support services for businesses across the province.
The federal government, through the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), is providing repayable contributions totalling $800,000.
“The Government of Canada is pleased to support Premier Tech as it evolves and innovates to remain globally competitive, and continues growing,” said Acadie-Bathurst MP Serge Cormier. “This company has been an important contributor to our local economy for many years, creating jobs and bringing cutting-edge expertise in the peat moss industry into our community.”
The company, a subsidiary of Quebec-based Premier Tech, is one of the largest industrial flexible packaging equipment manufacturers in the industry and expanded into New Brunswick in 1998. Its investment in this equipment helped the company to create 27 new jobs. It now employs 56 people in Caraquet.
Premier Tech Horticulture, an affiliated company, employs 88 people at its facility in Rexton.
“This investment reinforces Premier Tech’s manufacturing presence in New Brunswick and has significant impacts on the competitiveness of our plant,” said Premier Tech’s President & COO Jean Bélanger. “Such a major project not only allowed for the creation of 27 new jobs, but also led to the implementation of high-end manufacturing technologies that increased our capacity in Caraquet.”
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