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Regional Projects, Investment Opportunities

You're in good company

Invest in Central Alberta and you'll be among other innovative and successful companies who are choosing to build here. Below are a few of the major investments happening now in our region.

Manufacturing projects

  • $6.9 million - Quinn's Oilfield Supply
  • $1.85 million - Quinn Pumps building addition

Agriculture & agri-foods projects

  • $35 million - biorefining demonstration facility, Lacombe
  • $200 million - wheat ethanol plant in Red Deer County, which plans to put out 140 million litres of ethanol/year, as well as 40,000 tonnes of vital wheat gluten, 145,000 tonnes of distillers dried grains & solubles  and 100,000 tonnes of marketable carbon dioxide
  • $250,000 - Nossack Meats facility expansion, Red Deer

There are also large ongoing investments into biofuels and field crop research in our region. More on agricultural research programs in Central Alberta. 

Oil & gas projects

  • $100 million - AltaGas Income Trust
  • $41 million - Keyera Corporation
  • $550,000 - Badger Daylighting Inc. new shop

Petrochemical projects

  • $41 million - Dow Chemical Canada Inc. polyethylene plant expansion, Prentiss
  • $42.5 million - NovaGreen Inc. commercial and demonstration facilities, Killam

Transportation & logistics projects

  • $400,000 - Highway 9 mechanical shop addition
  • $675,000 - Freightliner new heavy truck service facility

For a full inventory of major projects in Alberta - including Alberta Government infrastructure upgrades - visit Alberta's List of Major Projects, updated monthly

Or visit the Central Alberta Economic Partnership website for more investment opportunities.