Orangeville becomes Plastic town

 In Huronia XIII I talked about how better transportation is needed and particularly rail transportation to improve Orangeville's industrial prospects.Huronia XIV  will explore this idea in more detail.

       Huronia XIII
   In the last post in the Huronia series,which was done on Econothon(wordpress),on November 13,2016 it discussed a number of points that are seminal to this post.Firstly of the six main employers in town 4 are related to plastics.That includes Clorox, Roto-Mill,Hoffman Plastics and Sanoh-Nylon.There are plastic manufacturers in nearby Brampton.There is an existing rail line running presently between Brampton and Orangeville.And there is some kind of train terminal at the Sanoh plant.In other words, the groundwork for a plastics industry already exists.
      Existing Industrial Plastics Firms
  There are a number of smaller plastic's firms as well as the  larger ones already mentionned.These include Technicor,P and A Plastics,ICO Mold Plastics.Novolex and Process Engineering in nearby Alliston.These firms all are custom engineering and machining and fabricating plastic products.The products are usually small and often use injection moulding.Most of these firms have 10 to 50 employees and do not have many steady customers.That is because the industry is very cost competitive and a few pennies on each item can cost them their market.And that is why transportation is so important;it can make the difference between having or losing a customer.
    The Rail System
There is a rail system in place now ;it is called the Orangeville Brampton Railway (OBRY).OBRY goes from Streetsville (Mississauga) to Brampton and then to Caledon and finally Orangeville.At Streetsville it connects with the CP line and at Brampton it crosses the CN line.A company called Cando operates it and it runs on Tuesdays and Fridays.The main purpose of the rail system is to service several industries between Orangeville and Brampton.It also operates the Credit Valley Explorer which is a passenger service.It easily could be a dedicated rail system for 3 days of the week.But it would need investment in terminals at both ends and better facilities for loading trucks at both ends.This would allow several grades of processed plastic to be delivered to Orangeville from one or two plastic plants in Brampton.
       What's Next
       Orangeville has to specialize in several small processed plastic products;it cannot compete with bigger fabricaters for large plastic contracts.But it needs to get investment(likely from the provincial or federal government) to improve it's rail system.There may be need of side tracks,interconnections to CP at Streetsville and certainly better terminals with modern truck loading facilities.The likely beneficiaries will be the bigger plants at first like Hoffman and Sanoh Nylon.Down the road they may give subcontracts to smaller firms like Technicor and ICO moldings.   

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