Langley City’s largest employer about to become even bigger.
On Tuesday, March 12, CKF Inc. announced it will be “transitioning” a plastic recycling facility in Delta to the CKF foam manufacturing facility in Langley along with another in Langley.
Manufacturing operations of the CKF rPET facility in Delta, and the CKF Packright rPET facility in Langley, will be moved into the CKF foam manufacturing plant on 200th Street near Fraser Highway. rPET refers to recycled polyethylene terephthalate, plastic that is used to make packaging, such as plastic bottles and food containers.
The transition will take 12-14 months, the company said.
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Additional investment will be made in rPET production capacity to be installed at CKF Langley in approximately May of this year, the announcement said.
All hourly and salaried employees of the CKF Delta facility, along with the facility’s manufacturing equipment, will move around September and October of this year, while staff and equipment at the CKF Packright facility will move in April and June of 2025.
The combined CKF Langley facilities will employ approximately 300 hourly and salaried people.
That is double the 150 employees estimated in a 2016 online profile of the factory, which makes moulded pulp and foam products, such as disposable plates, egg and fruit cartons.
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CKF president Ian Anderson said Langley “will be producing a full range of thermoformed rPET products, ensuring the company continues to meet the growing needs of its customers.”
“This is an exciting time as we build on our strengths and a collaborative renewed strategic direction for the company,” he said.
CKF’s announcement was made jointly with Scotia Investments Inc.
Based in Bedford, Nova Scotia, the company has invested in manufacturing, energy, health, and environmental sectors in six provinces, and lists CKF as one of its “current member companies, which also includes BioMedica Diagnostics Inc., Crown Fibre Tube Inc., Maritime Paper Products Limited Partnership, Minas Basin Pulp and Power Company Limited, Scotia Recycling Limited, and Timberland Holdings (2010) Limited.