Horizon Milling G.P. is planning a new flour mill in Guelph, Ontario. The facility is expected to be open in the next three years and will increase Horizon Milling’s Canadian production by up to 30 percent.
Horizon Milling also operates flour mills in Montreal and Saskatoon.
Horizon is a partnership formed by Cargill and CHS Inc. it produces Robin Hood flour.
The mill will be built on a 27-acre site Horizon Milling recently bought.
The new facility will primarily serve Horizon Milling’s food processing customers in southwestern Ontario. Grain will be predominantly sourced from farmers in eastern and western Canada.
The project will be the company’s first new mill built in Canada since it entered the Canadian flour milling business via acquisition in 2006.
Horizon Milling anticipates bringing 15 to 20 new jobs to Guelph as the facility nears completion.
The last entirely new flour mill in Canada was the $25 million Rogers Food plant in Chilliwack, B.C., which officially opened in 2005.
Dover Flour, which is owned by Parrish and Heimbecker, doubled the capacity of its mill in Acton, Ont., in 2009, replacing capacity lost when fire destroyed a company mill at Hayhoe, Ont.
