New Boat Plant Opens

Glen Morrison Thursday, 27 August 2009 107.5 KISSFM:

A North Okanagan manufacturer is about to open it's new, consolidated, 52 thousand square foot plant. Harbercraft, maker of aluminum boats, will have the grand opening September first after over a year's building.WestWinn group president Byron Bolton says it's not just an expansion.He tells KISS FM, "The operation was consolidated from two other facilities, one just across the street, and two buildings and one operation in Sylvan Lake Alberta that's basically been moved to Alberta." Bolton says they're running with about 80 staff at the plant on eight acres of land at the north end of Swan Lake.

Harbercraft's website says it's the number one aluminum boat in Canada. The website says the company originated on the shores of the Niagara River, where the original founders, the Harber family, started manufacturing car top aluminum boats in 1959. With growth and sales demand from major department stores, a second manufacturing plant was built in the 70s near Vernon.