# Ideal Can to open new plant in Chatham, Ontario with $100M investment

Ideal Can is expanding production capacity with a new plant in Chatham, Ontario, costing $100 million. The plant will open in January 2026 with six production lines, increasing workforce from 35 to 100 over two years, and produce 1.2 billion cans annually by 2028.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2025-08-26
- Where: Chatham, Ontario, Canada
- Value: $74.0M (100.0M CAD)
- Jobs: 65
- Starts operating: Jan 2026
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 1.2 billion cans annually
- Products: steel food cans
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md)

## Companies

- [Ideal Can](https://endata.com/companies/13620.md)

## Sources

- [ici.radio-canada.ca](https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2188071/why-a-quebec-food-can-maker-reshored-its-supply-chain-back-to-canada-from-the-u-s), 2025-08-26: "The company's Chatham plant will open in January in the old Crown Metal Processing factory. Six new production lines will bring its workforce up from roughly 35 workers in total to 100 over two years, costing $100 million."
- [ca.finance.yahoo.com](https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/why-quebec-food-maker-reshored-080000211.html), 2025-08-26: "The independence from American [production] is very important at this moment."

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