Canada's largest food can maker opening new $80M facility in Chatham

A former packaging plant in Chatham, which closed a decade ago, will be back in business producing hundreds of millions of cans, thanks to a Quebec company. Ideal Can, the largest producer of food cans in Canada, plans to invest about $80 million to establish a new factory in the former Crown Metal Packaging plant in Chatham, bring 100 new jobs to the city next year, company president Erick Vachon told The Chatham Daily News. Vachon said he likes the fact the Irwin Street site once produced food