9 - Processing, Manufacturing & Utilities

This plant has grown in recent years. Before 1997 it was a plant on Marion with about 150 employees. When they built this plant, they hired a lot of new employees. We're at 600 right now but when the plant was first built, we had 350.

Over time, they've created more value-added products. Now we do a lot of vacuum-sealed products that are labour intensive, so we've had to hire more people.