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Viterra Hosts Grand Opening of Vegreville Grain Terminal
On March 14, we hosted a grand opening “We’re pleased to be expanding our The event was followed by a grower
event at our new high throughput grain presence in this area of the province meeting in the afternoon where
facility at Vegreville. We had an excellent through this state-of-the-art addition to customers heard about current marketing
turnout with over 100 people attending, our asset network,” said Dean McQueen, trends and insights from a few of our
including customers, employees and in his remarks to the audience. “As an merchants, and had an opportunity to ask
government officials coming together to industry leader, we’ve invested millions their questions.
celebrate our major investment in east of dollars in Alberta over the last few
central Alberta. The facility has a storage years to support our focus on operational
capacity of 34,000 metric tonnes, and excellence and provide our farm
is capable of loading up to 126 railcars customers with exceptional service.”
through a loop track.
Team members from CN and Viterra pose in from of CN’s The Vegreville elevator in action as it loads CN’s railcars
new high-capacity rail cars. on the loop track.
Dean McQueen addresses the audience during the formal program. Mike Rogers presents to farmers at the grower meeting.
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