UPS Canada building largest Canadian operations facility
November 22, 2018
By
CCE
As part of a $500 million investment in Canada, the new $200 million, 850,000 sq. ft. UPS facility in Ontario will feature advanced scanning and sortation technology integrated with data-driven tools to increase efficiency and reliability.
Construction of a new $200 million, 850,000 sq. ft. UPS facility in Caledon, Ont. is underway.
The small package operations hub will provide additional processing and service capacity to the Greater Toronto Area. Fully automated, the Caledon facility will sort up to 35,000 packages per hour and house a fleet of more than 200 package cars. The facility is anticipated to open in late 2020.
“Southern Ontario is an attractive hub for international trade and business,” says Christoph Atz, president of UPS Canada, in a company release. “This new facility will serve the growing needs of businesses and consumers today and into the future.”
As one of the fastest growing provinces, Ontario serves as a point of facilitation for the movement of goods, domestically and across the border. The new facility will increase resources and expand UPS’s smart logistics network to better serve customers in the region, both in Canada and the United States.
In March of this year, UPS announced its plans to invest more than $500 million towards facility expansions and technological enhancements in Canada. Construction of a $125-million, 180,000 sq. ft. expansion to the company’s Montreal hub, is almost complete. On November 2, the company unveiled its new, $15 million, 40,000 sq. ft., facility in Kanata, Ont. and has expanded its package centres in Brampton and London, Ont. and Edmonton.
UPS employs approximately 6,000 people across Ontario and 12,000 across Canada.
