Meat packer creates jobs through provincial grant
Posted Jul 27, 2010 11:51:58 AM.
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Up to forty new industrial jobs are coming to Waterloo Region this year thanks to a provincial grant.
Local MPP Leeanna Pendergast and Minister of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs, Carol Mitchell, announced a $350,000 grant for improvements at Conestoga Meat Packers in Breslau today.
The money will help pay for new machinery and a better packaging system, both of which will increase the plant’s output and create new jobs.
The grant also provides for specialized training.
President of the company, Arnold Drung, tells 570 News most of the jobs will be created through improved exporting capacity.
Drung says they’ve already started hiring for the new positions, and should have all them filled by the end of the year.
The plant already employs 350 people.
