Cancarb expansion adds 9,000 tonnes to annual production
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Cancarb has completed its expansion, the Medicine Hat-based manufacturer announced Monday.
Work to add a sixth carbon black production unit, at a stated cost of $40 million, began in 2019 and is now boosting output at the Brier Park facility by 20 per cent.
“The project was planned, constructed and commissioned safely utilizing more than 50 contractor groups,:” said project manager Jerimy Chisholm. “This amounted to more than 100,000 man hours of labour … (and was) completed without any serious injuries, nor incidents, during a pandemic.”