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Machinery Manufacturing

Market – Key Facts

  • Ontario’s machinery manufacturing sector has a solid reputation for excellence that stretches back 150 years
  • The machinery manufacturing industry includes more than 1180 process machinery establishments employing in excess of 66,000 highly skilled workers
  • Ontario is at the centre of Canada’s $17.8 billion domestic market for process machinery
  • Provincial industry comprises large corporations and innovative young firms engaged in manufacturing industrial and commercial machinery
  • Solid economic growth in most of the world’s industrialized economies is helping to drive growth globally

Machinery Shipments 2000

Machinery Shipments 2000

Source: Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ontario Process Machinery Update, 2001

Brantford·Brant Recent Investments

  • LP International- $1.5 million, 36,000 sq.ft. new manufacturing plant and head office, employing 26
  • Keeprite Refrigeration- $2 million, 55,000 sq.ft expansion, employing 150

Brantford·Brant’s Advantages

  • More the 50 small and medium sized firms have already selected Brantford· Brant for their business employing more than 2,000 employees
  • Local market presence that includes Tigercat Industries, Keeprite Refrigeration, LP International,Zamboni & Co. Ltd.
  • High quality, skilled and semi-skilled workforce
  • Competitive wage levels
  • Low cost electricity
  • Cost competitive business conditions
  • Transportation options that include superior access to 400 series highways, two international airports, international border crossing at Niagara Falls and inter-modal facilities in western GTA