Batco Manufacturing, a maker of belt conveyers for handling grain and other bulk agricultural products in Swift Current, Sask., will relocate to a different plant in the city that will triple the size of its manufacturing space.
Ag Growth International, which owns Batco, has an agreement to buy the 114,000 sq. foot Urban Forest Recyclers Inc. building. There re also 8.5 acres of land.
In a statement, AGI said the new facility would allow Batco to install a powder coats paint line and institute a lean manufacturing process to increase quality and potentially double capacity.
The project is expected to cost $8.7 million and be funded from the sale of the current Batco facility and other properties owned by AGI that are now not currently used.
The plan is for the new plant to be operating in the fourth quarter of this year.
Batco employs 70 people.
AGI, based in Winnipeg, owns 11 manufacturing plants in Canada, the United States, United Kingdom and Finland.
