Drake Meats to build new facility

Glacier FarmMedia—Saskatchewan meat firm Drake Meats Processors Inc. can be constructing a brand new meat processing facility in Saskatoon that’s anticipated to make use of 200 native folks as soon as absolutely operational.

The power, designed by Mallot Creek Group, can be 53,000 sq. ft and embody know-how developments similar to a state-of-the-art tempering room, an automatic bacon line, an automatic injection system and pure gasoline smokehouses.

To assist development of the power, the corporate can be use senior debt financing with Farm Credit score Canada and fairness proceeds from an funding group led by the Golden Alternatives Fund.

“The development of our new facility is an amazing milestone within the development story of Drake,” chief government officer Kelly Ediger stated within the Might 20 announcement.

Ediger and her household have owned and operated the corporate for 4 generations because it was was based in 1949.

With the power, Drake Meats will enhance its annual manufacturing capability by roughly eight million kilograms and enhance the corporate’s demand and purchases of Canadian pork and beef, the first elements in its merchandise of sausage, jerky, and deli meats.

These meat merchandise and others, similar to bacon and ham, will be present in grocery shops throughout Western Canada.

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