The Shango Canada company presented its ambitions for its grinding pellet plant in Port-Cartier on Thursday. In the long term, the company wants to generate 75 to 100 jobs at its factory, located in the heart of the Port-Cartier industrial zone.
Shango Canada, whose head office is based in Montreal, caused a surprise on June 5 by becoming one of five recipients of energy blocks on the North Shore. However, the company has not disclosed the quantity of megawatts it obtained from the state-owned company.
Grinding pellets are used by the mining industry to reduce iron, gold or copper ore, for example, to dust. It is in this form that the ore can then be concentrated into pellets.
According to the general director of Shango Canada, Étienne Gagnon, originally from Port-Cartier, the city’s industrial park was a site very interesting
for the company given its proximity to port facilities and potential customers
such as ArcelorMittal in Port-Cartier and Rio Tinto/IOC in Labrador City.
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According to Étienne Gagnon, Hydro-Québec’s energy block will make it possible to optimize the company’s energy needs.
Photo: Radio-Canada / Alban Normandin
Now equipped with an energy block, Shango Canada intends to complete the construction of the industrial building in 2024 and begin production in the fall of 2025.
Moreover, the company also wishes to inaugurate the project accompanied by the Minister of Energy, Innovation and Energy Pierre Fitzgibbon at the end of August.
Asked about the job creation potential of the project, Étienne Gagnon supports jobs, here in Port-Cartier, within the next five years.”,”text”:”that we have the objective of finding 75 to 100 jobs, here in Port-Cartier, within the next five next few years.”}}”>that we have the objective of finding 75 to 100 jobs, here in Port-Cartier, over the next five years.
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This is “excellent news for the entire population and the region,” said the mayor of Port-Cartier.
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For his part, the mayor of Port-Cartier, Alain Thibault, says he fulfilled
by the announcement of the Shango Canada project.
For us, this is very good news for Port-Cartier. […] It brings diversity to our industries here.
He believes that the Shango Canada project could benefit from other companies in the Rémabec industrial park, which brings together the Arbec sawmill and the Bio Énergie AE biofuel plant.
Moreover, Shango Canada intends to use the biofuel produced by Bio Énergie AE in its production chain in addition to the electricity supplied by Hydro-Québec and thus form a energy mix
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