Horizon Milling G.P. is planning a new flour mill in Guelph, Ont., which it expects to be operating within three years.
Horizon, a partnership between Cargill and CHS, produces Robin Hood flour.
Cargill was unable to say how much grain the facility would require, but a company official said it hopes to increase Canadian production by up to 30 percent using grain from both Western and Eastern Canada.
The Guelph project is the first mill the company has built in Canada since it bought the grain-based foodservice and industrial business of Smucker Foods in Canada in 2006, which included mills in Saskatoon and Montreal. A third mill in Port Colburne, Ont., was closed in 2008.
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Horizon got the rights to use the Robin Hood brand in the deal.
“We chose to expand in Guelph because it gives us the opportunity to better serve the greater Toronto area and it has a very convenient access to CP and CN rail,” said Brigitte Burgoyne, Cargill’s communications manager for corporate affairs.
Horizon expects to create 15 to 20 jobs, according to a news release.
“It’s going to be quite different because we are using a really new, state-of-the-art concept with new technologies,” said Burgoyne. “It will be largely in part an automated process so it will be a one-of-its-kind facility.”
