Flair Packaging has acquired a second Calgary plant and upgraded its existing facility in the Southern Alberta city.

The investments are the first in a new series of planned expansions designed to bolster Flair’s Canadian manufacturing platform.

The acquired plant adds 35,000 square feet of warehouse and production space to Flair’s portfolio.

“Unprecedented disruptions in recent years have exposed supply-chain vulnerabilities across all industries, and we took that as a signal to evolve,” said Young So, Flair’s president and owner. “We saw an opportunity to help brands stay agile in the face of changing demand by integrating advanced material innovation with onshore manufacturing.

“Our goal has always been to make high-performance, value-added packaging solutions more accessible to the North American market.”

The existing Calgary plant’s improvements include a new 10-colour flexographic press and a solventless laminator. Flair said the new investments enable the company to deliver complete, specialty packaging solutions manufactured in Canada.

Flair is based in Calgary and also has plants in the U.S. and Mexico.

Pictured: New Flair flexographic press located in Calgary.

Photo: CNW Group/Flair Packaging