Canadian food group Maple Leaf Foods has announced the closure of its wiener production facility in Hamilton.
Maple Leaf is pressing forward with plans to transfer production to its new prepared meats facility in the city.
In February, the firm announced it would “transfer production from older high cost plants to new low cost plants, and close the older plants down,” in a bid to lower costs.
The firm said 88% of the 213 staff at the Brockley Road plant had been offered employment at the new Heritage facility in Hamilton.
The company is focused on transferring production from four other plants over the remainder of 2014 that will subsequently close and continuing to ramp up both wiener and sliced meats production at the new facility.
“We are in the final phase of completing a transformation of our prepared meats network,” president and CEO Michael H. McCain said. “We have established world-class facilities and technologies to step-change our profitability and competitiveness. This year, the focus is on shifting production to these new facilities, closing legacy plants, and realising related cost and productivity gains. We are doing this in a way that is respectful of our people and provides them ongoing employment opportunities wherever possible. A low-cost, highly efficient network will provide a strong platform for growth and support Canada’s broader agrifood sector.”
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