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N.B. potato chip plant expanding operations

August
4, 2010, Hartland, N.B. – A potato chip company in western New Brunswick is
expanding operations and creating 40 jobs with financial assistance from the
provincial government.

August
4, 2010, Hartland, N.B. – A potato chip company in western New Brunswick is
expanding operations and creating 40 jobs with financial assistance from the
provincial government.

The
$15-million loan will help Old Dutch Foods with a new packaging line, new
equipment and more warehouse space in Hartland.

The
expansion is also expected to double the annual potato requirement for Old
Dutch, which buys spuds from seven Hartland-area farmers.

The
company currently employs 128 people.

Premier
Shawn Graham says the expansion will help the whole area.

“From
the value-added point of view, it’s going to double potato production in the
area,” says Graham.

“There’s
1,500 acres (607 hectares) and several farmers who currently provide potatoes
to this operation for chip stock, that’s going to double in size as well.”

Old
Dutch Foods Ltd., founded in Winnipeg in 1954, operates five plants across
Canada and works with a sister company in the U.S.