Heinz to expand Quebec plant expansion for a return to ketchup production in Canada
Mike Edwards
News Canada Montreal production
Kraft Heinz Co. has announced a plan to make ketchup in Canada again, six years after it abandoned production in Lemington, ON. Av Maharaj, chief administrative officer at Kraft Heinz Canada, said earlier this month that the company will start producing Heinz ketchup at its facility in Mount Royal, QC, pumping out the equivalent of 13 million one-litre bottles each year starting in 2021.
The Quebec government also announced it will loan $2 million of the total US$17.6-million cost to add a ketchup production line at the Montreal-area Kraft Heinz factory.
The new line is scheduled to start running next summer and will create 30 new jobs, according to the Financial Post, part of a US$100-million capital investment in Kraft Heinz’s Canadian operations, Maharaj said.
The Mount Royal line will produce 98 per cent of all the ketchup Heinz sells in Canada.
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