Conestoga Meat Packers is getting more money from
the provincial government to purchase equipment it hopes will boost pork
processing capacity by 86 per cent and add 170 employees.
The funding could go as high as $5.3 million and is
only one of many loans and grants the business has garnered from federal and
provincial governments over the last decade.
Conestoga Meat Packers is, after Quality Packer
folded, now Ontario's second-largest pork processor and is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Progressive Pork Producers Co-operative Inc. owned by 157 hog
producers farming in Southwestern Ontario.
