Alliance Grain Traders Inc. has announced plans to invest up to $50 million towards the construction of a pasta and pulse processing and logistics complex.
Work on the facility is expected to begin in 2012 with the complex be located in the new Global Transportation Hub in Regina.
The complex is planned as a milling site for wheat and pulses – processing durum wheat into semolina for the production of the Arbella pasta brand in Canada. The facility will also provide pulse processing capacity for pulse flours, proteins, starches and fibres.
President and CEO of Alliance Grain Traders Inc Murad Al-Katib, says they have always been focused on creating value through origin-based processing, locating processing facilities where high quality crops are grown.
The company already has a good track record with a successful global pasta business based in Turkey.
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