A fledgling Owen Sound company is already in an expansion mode.
Earlier this month, MacLean Engineering unveiled it’s new “municipal vehicle” that can be used for sidewalk and pathway snowplowing and other tasks where power is needed in confined areas.
Now, the company has bought up a small Ottawa area firm called Kanlan, and moving production to Owen Sound.
Kanlan makes several attachments for the Municipal vehicle made by MacLean Engineering, and Vice President Mike Denomme says the purchase makes sense on several levels.
Not only does it allow the Owen Sound company greater control over it’s own destiny, Denomme says they have the space at the plant here and they can also look at expanding production of those attachments …. so they can be used with virtually any tractors on the market.
Denomme says Kanlan was a very small operation and intially, no new jobs will be created in Owen Sound.
However, if sales of the municipal vehicles take off, or sales of the attachment line takes off there will be more jobs at MacLean Engineering.
Right now, the company has some 40 workers at the plant in the former Parker Hannifin building on 6th street east.
