P&H Milling Group, Canada’s largest milling company, is building a $45 million flour mill in Hamilton, Ont.
The mill will be built adjacent to the terminal elevator that its parent company Parrish & Heimbecker Ltd. opened in 2011 at the Port of Hamilton.
P&H Milling will spend $40 million on the project and the government of Ontario is kicking in $5 million.
The new bulk mill will house efficient state-of-the-art equipment including additional grain and flour storage, said a news release from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture. The expansion will enable the company to process 25 percent more grain, and help increase the company’s intake of Ontario wheat by more than 10 percent annually, the release said.
P&H has been into milling since 1964.
It will be the first entirely new mill in Ontario in 75 years, although P&H Milling’s Dover Flour added a new milling unit at its Acton, Ont., mill doubling capacity in 2009.
P&H Milling has mills in Lethbridge, Saskatoon, Montreal, Halifax and three mills in Ontario in Acton, Hanover, and Cambridge.
