Alpine Plant Foods has opened an $8 million liquid phosphate fertilizer plant in Belle Plaine, about 50 kilometres west of Regina.
The company had been serving Western Canada from a facility in New Hamburg, Ontario.
Terry Good, the company's western Canadian sales manager, said Alpine has been selling its products in western Canada for about a decade. "The [sales] volume justifies the [Belle Plaine] plant," he said.
The new plant will enable the company to provide better service to Western Canadian customers and also reduce rail transportation costs incurred in shipping the fertilizer from Eastern Canada, Good said.
Alpine Plant Foods has been supplying liquid fertilizers to North American farmers since 1947. The Belle Plaine facility has storage space for 4 million litres of raw materials and finished product.
from Western Investor, October 2010
