Bigger facility needed to build Väderstad products
Seed Hawk is planning two expansions of its seeding implement manufacturing plant in Langbank, Sask.
This month it is breaking ground on a 15,000 sq. foot addition to the manufacturing shop. A second project, an 81,000 sq. foot addition, is set to begin in January, the company said in a news release.
Seed Hawk is selling more products in Europe, the former Soviet Union and Australia.
Seed Hawk partnered with the Swedish agricultural manufacturer Väderstad-Verken AB in 2006, giving both players access to new agricultural markets.
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“One of the things we have learned from our partners at Väderstad is to plan an expansion every year, and if something changes, we can amend the plan,” Seed Hawk president Pat Beaujot said in the release.
“With all that’s going on — like adding a number of Väderstad’s products and sales growth in the Seed Hawk line — we need to keep expanding. Now, we have a three-year expansion plan that takes us into 2016.”
Expanding the complex in Langbank will allow Seed Hawk to carry and assemble more of Väderstad’s products.
It will also provide the space necessary to support a new corn planter and expand its lineup of zero-till seeding implements.
A previous two-part expansion, completed in 2011, tripled its production capabilities, and the 2012 addition of a 15,000 sq. foot testing facility is proving its worth through improved quality control, the company said.
