Kruger Products officially inaugurated its Sherbrooke tissue plant, which was commissioned in 2021, and also broke ground at its expansion project where another tissue plant will be built on a site adjacent to the Sherbrooke Plant by 2024. This second project, which represents further investments of $351.5 million, will deliver on the Company's vision to make Sherbrooke a major premium-quality tissue product manufacturing hub in North America, featuring Canada's most advanced and best-performing TAD tissue machine. In total, the Company will have invested nearly $1 billion in the Estrie Region since 2018.
The Sherbrooke Plant, which has 180 employees, has been performing well above expectations since it was commissioned last year. Furthermore, the Plant benefited from an additional $25-million investment to implement artificial intelligence (AI) functions that make it one of Canada's best-performing and most technologically advanced manufacturing facilities.
The $351.5 million expansion project includes the construction of a double-wide tissue machine featuring LDC technology, as well as the installation of two additional converting lines, one in the existing Sherbrooke Plant and the other in the new plant, which will bring the Sherbrooke site's overall production capacity to more than 130,000 metric tonnes of high-quality tissue products.
The construction project, which is to be carried out over the next two years, will require some 660,000 person-hours of work and generate substantial economic benefits for the region. The project will lead to the creation of 141 additional direct jobs, bringing the total number of jobs at the Brompton site to 348, including those at the biomass cogeneration plant owned and operated by Kruger Specialty Papers. Taking into account the 46 employees at Kruger Products' Lennoxville Plant, there will be 394 people working for the Kruger group in the Estrie region.
Kruger Products is Canada's leading manufacturer of quality tissue products for household, industrial and commercial use.
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