CGC set for construction of 220,000-square-foot plant near Carseland

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Backed by a $210-million funding, CGC — the Canadian division of USG Corp. — has introduced three milestones within the building of its enormous state-of-the-art wallboard manufacturing plant in Wheatland County.

The location, masking 214 acres northwest of Carseland, has been acquired for the development of a 220,000-square-foot facility. Its location offers good entry to the Stoney Path ring street and the CP rail line.

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Presently, wallboard is shipped to Western Canada from CGC’s vegetation in Ontario and Japanese Canada — the brand new facility will cut back supply timing and reduce down on prices and emissions of supply from the east.

CGC has additionally introduced that Ledcor has been awarded the contract to assemble the brand new plant, with building anticipated to start out later this 12 months. It’s anticipated that the event part of the venture will create roughly 200 native jobs in building and the expert trades.

The third vital announcement is that Duane VanDuuren has been named plant supervisor, and might be shifting to the Calgary space together with his household within the subsequent few months.

VanDuuren grew up in Kingston, Ont., and earned his diploma in civil engineering at Lakehead College in Thunder Bay. He joined CGC nearly 25 years in the past, and has served it and its guardian firm USG in quite a lot of jobs in building engineering design and detailing in various completely different places.

He at the moment resides in Buffalo, N.Y., however he, his spouse and two youngsters are wanting ahead to returning to Canada — and Alberta for the primary time.

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“I couldn’t be extra excited to take the reins as CGC’s Wheatland plant supervisor,” says VanDuuren. “We have now aspirations for what this new facility will accomplish as soon as it’s constructed. We could have the chance to make a constructive distinction locally, create new jobs and provides western Canadian builders and residents a lot simpler entry to the merchandise they’ve come to know and belief.”

When totally operational, the plant will present job alternatives for round 100 staff, together with electrical and mechanical technicians, tools operators and provide change personnel. Native trucking corporations may also be contracted to ship merchandise to distribution centres.

VanDuuren says the plant will provide the Canadian market the lightest and most sustainable product on the planet, implementing the newest improvements and cutting-edge know-how to optimize operational stability, making the end-product extra eco-friendly. Will probably be CGC’s first plant constructed utilizing a zero-waste method — 100 per cent manufacturing waste might be recycled again into the manufacturing course of — nothing will go to landfill.

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Plans are for a high-efficiency, gas-fired kiln utilizing low power to dry product, recovering evaporated water, and an on-site photo voltaic area will energy 100 per cent of the plant’s electrical energy wants.

The funding to generate financial progress in rural Alberta is the results of a partnership between CGC, Wheatland County, the Authorities of Alberta and Make investments Alberta, which is offering $3.7 million from the Funding and Development Fund.

CGC, first referred to as the Canadian Gypsum Co., started in Nova Scotia in 1907, involved primarily with the quarrying and exportation of gypsum rock to the U.S. Right this moment, it’s the main marketer, producer and distributor of gypsum wallboard merchandise, inside ending supplies and suspended acoustical ceilings in Canada. It operates three mines, 5 vegetation and several other distribution and customer support centres throughout the nation.

The corporate advantages from international affiliations and analysis and improvement amenities by its guardian firm, USG, the main drywall producer in North America.

CGC opened a plant in Calgary in 1999 that has round 50 employees working three shifts, manufacturing prepared combine joint therapy merchandise and distributing wallboard, tile, bead and underlayment merchandise.

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Notes:

The Calgary Actual Property Board (CREB) has introduced the appointment of Marco De Iaco to its board of administrators. The appointment marks a major milestone as De Iaco assumes the position of the first-ever public director. De Iaco is a former govt director of the Calgary Downtown Affiliation and vice-president of sport, tradition and main occasions at Tourism Calgary. “We’re thrilled to welcome him to our board,” says CREB chair Christian Twomey. “His intensive expertise and unwavering dedication to group empowerment makes him a beneficial addition.”

David Parker seems often within the Herald. Learn his columns on-line at calgaryherald.com/enterprise. He could be reached at 403-830-4622 or by electronic mail at information@davidparker.ca

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