The company said it would be too expensive to bring the plant up to snuff and it has not been able to reach a contract agreement with 110 employees.
The St-Damase plant’s soft cheese manufacturing will be set up at Agropur’s St-Hyacinthe plant, while its cheese conversion will be transferred to the co-op’s plant at Beauceville.
Agropur had bought what was then known as Fromagerie Damafro and its sister cheesemaker, Fromagerie Clement, in 2013 for an undisclosed sum.
The plants were previously owned and operated by the Bonnet family of cheesemakers, who came to Quebec from the Brie region of France.
