McCain Foods Will Create Around 80 Jobs With New Production Line In Grand Falls
FLORENCEVILLE – McCain Foods has announced it will invest $80-million in a new specialty potato production line at its Grand Falls facility.
An estimated 80 new full-time jobs will be added to the production line once the facility expansion is completed.
The new production line will be operational by early 2021 and feature advanced technology for process efficiency as well as state-of-the-art food safety, processing and packaging equipment.
The company says the new line will create a demand for an additional 3,000 acres of harvested potatoes by the province’s growers.
This is the company’s second major investment in recent months. In late August, McCain Foods announced that it would invest $12-million to increase capacity of the existing line that produces French fries at its potato processing facility in Florenceville.
“With today’s announcement, both the Grand Falls facility and the recent Florenceville expansion will provide McCain Foods with two of the largest Formed Specialty lines in the industry,” said Dale McCarthy, vice president of integrated supply chain, in a release from the company.