Nufarm Limited decides to close its manufacturing operations in Calgary, Alberta, Canada as part of its plan to build a more responsive, flexible and cost effective structure for the North American region via its facilities in the Chicago area.
The current Canadian distribution locations that serve customers directly will remain, with increased capacity to ensure customers will be serviced with the same or better response times, according to the company. All sales, marketing, and customer-facing operations in Canada remain.
“The decision to close the Calgary manufacturing facility is part of the company’s commitment to improve the performance of its operations,” said Nufarm’s Group Executive Operations, Elbert Prado.
“As with the manufacturing changes we are making in some of our other regions, this decision will allow us to increase flexibility, reduce complexity, and more efficiently utilise our facilities. We have invested to improve capacity of the overall North American manufacturing base, with a new state of the art seed treatment operation and full retooling of the herbicide facility in Chicago. These new facilities will provide greater capacity and support to ensure that we can respond quickly to the needs of our Canadian customers. This proved a more efficient approach than expansion of the Calgary site. ”
More information is available at: http://www.nufarm.ca/nufarm-announces-restructuring-of-north-american-manufacturing-footprint/
