Richardson International will have a new chief executive officer for the first time in nearly three decades. Hartley Richardson, chair of Richardson’s board, announced the appointment of Darwin Sobkow as incoming president and chief executive officer of the Winnipeg-based multinational grain and food ingredient company on Monday. Sobkow will replace Curt Vossen, who is retiring… Read More
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Richardson International has announced plans to upgrade eight elevators located on Canadian Pacific Kansas City rail lines in Western Canada. The work will allow these sites to load longer trains under CPKC’s 8,500-foot high efficiency product (HEP) model. The company says construction is set to begin at Richardson Pioneer locations in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba… Read More
Richardson Pioneer is planning to build a new grain elevator in western Manitoba, replacing the existing wood crib structure north of Swan River. The company says the project will begin this spring, with completion slated for August 2022. The elevator will feature 36,600 metric tonnes of storage capacity, a 150-car loop track design, high-speed receiving… Read More
A high throughput grain elevator will be up and running at High Level, Alta. by roughly this time next year, says Richardson Pioneer. The company plans to replace the old 6,500 metric tonne wooden crib elevator with a modern one that can handle 32,000 metric tonnes of storage space and will be capable of loading… Read More
Richardson International has announced its investing $120 million to upgrade and expand its canola processing plant at Lethbridge, Alberta. Currently, the company says the facility can process approximately 450,000 metric tonnes per year. The plan is to boost capacity to over 2,000 tonnes per day, and more than 700,000 tonnes per year. Some of the… Read More
Richardson International says it has completed a $140-million expansion of its export terminal on the North Vancouver waterfront, nearly doubling the storage and receiving capacity of the facility. The addition of an 80,000 tonne concrete storage annex boosts the terminal’s capacity to 178,000 tonnes. That will enable the port to handle more than six million… Read More