Overview
Bay of Quinte is arguably Ontario's most profitable plastics and packaging industry location. To excellent logistics services, Bay of Quinte adds low-cost space and labour-plus a local market that includes food processing and auto parts makers. And local Loyalist College offers plastics-related training courses.
Bay of Quinte is a logical choice for locating a company that is expanding by developing new product lines or serving new markets.
A closer look
Bay of Quinte hosts an important part of the Eastern Ontario plastics and packaging cluster. More than 1,750 people work in companies that have located here to gain some important competitive advantages:
- High return on investment in location:
- Located astride Highway 401, Canada's busiest highway
- Ready access to markets from Québec City to Windsor/Detroit-and to raw materials
- Quick, easy access to northeast U.S. border crossings
- Lower real estate costs than those of Greater Toronto Area locations
- Higher return on investment in labour:
- lower pay rates than those in Toronto
- benefit costs among the lowest in the industry in Ontario
- high worker loyalty and productivity
- lower worker turnover rates than those in Toronto
- less competition for labour than in Toronto or Southern Ontario
- The full range of logistics support services
- Local customer base in food processing and auto parts manufacturers
- High-calibre chemical engineering technician and technology program graduates from Loyalist College
For more details on the Plastics and Packaging Sector within the Bay of Quinte region, please
review this informative brochure.