The business Plombco has purchased a considerable part of the industrial building that formerly housed Huntingdon Mills in a transaction carried out with the Town of Huntingdon.
Plombco has been renting part of the building on Dalhousie St. since the beginning of the 2010s. The agreement has not yet been officially ratified but the transaction, estimated at just under $2 million, should be finalized in the next few weeks.
According to Didier-Bernard Séguin, the Director General of Plombco, the area purchased is nearly 150,000 square feet which represents 75% of the building. However, 35,000 square feet will be rented to Gilbertson & Page Canada who were already tenants in the building belonging to the Town.
Plombco, which also has a plant in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, manufactures wheel balancing weights. These parts reduce the vibration in the wheels of vehicles. The business employs 120 people, 20 of whom work in Huntingdon.
In 2005, the Town of Huntingdon purchased this building, which belonged to Investissements Huntreal (Huntingdon Mills), for industrial and community revitalization purposes.
Apart from Plombco, a dozen other businesses or organizations rent space in the former Huntingdon Mills plant, including Edge Lettrage, J Pixel Design, K-Design, Les entreprises Rankin, Société historique de la Vallée de la Châteauguay (Chateauguay Valley Historical Society), Corporation de développement communautaire du Haut-Saint-Laurent, Centre de recherche d’emploi du Sud-Ouest (CRESO), Voyage Diane Ford and Marc Lacroix.
Translated by Cathleen Johnston
