A Kingston manufacturing company is expanding into a new facility in the east end.

Cancoil Thermal Corporation, which manufacturers equipment for heating, air conditioning, ventilation and refrigeration systems, is expanding into an 18,600-square-metre (200,000-square-foot) building on Innovation Drive.

“We have grown out of our current location,” said company spokesperson Monika Datta, daughter of company founder and president and chief executive officer Chander Datta. “We are going to remain in our current location and just expand our product line.

“We’re not moving, we’re growing.”

Datta said the move is part of the company’s 10-year plan and is to involve the transfer of key production lines to the new facility.

Established in 1983, Cancoil currently employs 130 people at its John F. Scott Road facility, and Datta said the new facility could employ up to 100 more people once it is up to full capacity.

The company supplies HVAC equipment to residential and condominium developments in the Greater Toronto Area. It also supplies refrigeration equipment to commercial and industrial clients, including One World Trade Centre, the Toronto Raptors’ training facility, the National Music Centre, the United States Army, the Royal Canadian Navy, SickKids Hospital, the Beer Store, Norman Rogers Airport, Union Station in Toronto, and wind energy developments.

“You would never see our finished products,” she said. “They are very basic products, but they are products that are used all over the world.”

Datta said the family-owned company is a good fit for Kingston.

“This is where we started. We love Kingston and from what we’ve seen at our current plant and what we have at our current plant, we’ve got to say our people are amazing,” she said, noting that the company has access to a well-trained and dependable workforce and engineering and design expertise.

“All of those factors together made it a very easy decision for us to stay in Kingston and grow in Kingston,” she said.

“Why would we go anywhere else?”

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