Wednesday, April 17, 2019

P+H to double Hamilton flour mill

Parrish and Heimbecker is going to build a second flour mill at Hamilton Harbour, doubling production there.

It built the first mill there in 2012 and has invested heavily in improving grain-handling capacity at the port. The flour-mill plans include more investments In the terminal.

The company, which never says much about its plans and investments, has not revealed a price tag for the Hamilton Harbour investments.

It has flour mills at Hanover, Acton and Cambridge and significant investments in feed mills, poultry quota and poultry processing.

It has a director on the GrayRidge egg business, the second-largest egg-grading, egg-producing and egg-processing company in Ontario and Canada.

It has never revealed what, if any, ownership stake it holds in GrayRidge which is controlled by aging Bill Gray of Strathroy.