One of the area’s biggest employees is about to get bigger. A Shelburne plant that makes parts for Honda will undergo a multi-million dollar expansion.
Work has already started behind KTH’s main building – making way for 54,000 new square feet of space. It’s a big project for the company and it’s even bigger news for Shelburne.
“The expansion is amazing! That’s crazy, I honestly can’t believe it to be honest with you,” said KTH employee William Walsh.
Close to $42 million will be spent on the expansion and new equipment and thirty new jobs paying as much as $20.70 per hour are expected to be created.
KTH makes car frame parts for Honda in Alliston and with 425 employees it is Dufferin County’s largest employer.
Lori Smillie has worked at KTH for 13 years.
“It’s great; it’s always great when you expand right? For the company, stores, good for the store owners, good for the community, good for everyone.”
The company says it is at full capacity and needs the extra space as it prepares to start making parts for the new 2016 Honda Civic.
Ed Crewson is the mayor of Shelburne. He says this is just what the 6,500 residents of the town have been hoping for.
“We have something like 300 new homes going up it will mean some of these people will have jobs locally grown rather than commuting. It will mean that the people in the grocery stores, those people have shoppers, those stores will run because there’s profitable opportunities a profitable opportunity for them.”
KTH hopes to have the expansion up and running by summer 2015.
