steveM45 wrote: https://www.niagara-news.com/tweed-farms-announces-massive-greenhouse-expansion-in-notl/
27 Sep 2017
By KEARA JOYCE
Staff Writer
Canopy Growth, the owner of Tweed Farms, has announced that a new greenhouse will be built on the current Tweed Farm property.
This large expansion is going to increase the cannabis growing operation at the Niagara-on-the-Lake location to adapt to the market demand. Their new business plan involves investing more than $9 million to expand its greenhouse.
“Expanding the production capacity and greenhouse space at Tweed Farms allows us to continue to grow into the demand in the market, while at the same time showcasing our best-in-class sun-grown products,” said Caitlin O’Hara, communications specialist for Canopy Growth Corporation.
The upgrades in the facility will include “new irrigation systems, environmental controls, automation and shading systems designed to maximize yields in an environmentally friendly way,” said O’Hara.
“We are running at maximum capacity at our current facility in Niagara and we’re preparing to make more there, so this made sense…We have lots of choices across the country, but we now feel very comfortable with Niagara,” Bruce Linton, chairman and chief executive officer of Canopy Growth, is quoted as saying in a recent article in Niagara This Week.
“It’s easier to do a bigger, better job where people want to live and work.”
The new expansion will create about 100 full-time jobs to become available.
“The 100 jobs we will be adding are in an emerging sector, on top of the construction jobs and other spill-over employment opportunities that comes along with this scale of expansion in the region,” said O’Hara.
Canopy Growth officials say that the construction should be finished by April 2018.
Canopy Growth Corporation is the largest licensed cannabis production facility, offering multiple streams of marijuana.
Tweed farms is located in the former Hershey factory and operates 40 acres of land.
They currently occupy 168,000 square-feet of licensed production space.
Tweed Farms is going to continue to produce a variety of products to support the increasing demand for dried flower, oil and Softgel capsule cannabis products.