Maple Leaf Foods is spending $5.9 million on a bacon production line at its Winnipeg plant, part of a $35 million expansion of the facility.
The federal and Manitoba governments are assisting with an investment of $500,000 in the project, expected to push bacon production at the plant up by eight million kilograms a year.
Government funding will be used to buy new processing and packaging equipment, said a government news release.
The bacon line expansion is expected to create 34 permanent, full-time jobs as well as 34 part-time jobs.
Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler were on hand for the announcement July 18.
The ministers noted this expansion is expected to help increase exports of Canadian pork to international markets.
