Long-time Winnipeg steel plant closing in September

A long-time Winnipeg steel construction plant will close its doors next month.

Supreme Steel, located on Jarvis Avenue, will be shutting down Sept. 30 as part of a nationwide restructuring by its parent company, Supreme Group.

Roughly 50 employees are expected to be affected by the closure of the 40,000-square foot facility, which produced steel used in the expansion of the Convention Centre, as well as the construction of the city’s IKEA store.

A worker on site told Global News that 54 people will lose their jobs.

In a release Wednesday, Supreme Group said it’s also shuttering a plant in Delta, B.C., in 2020 – citing ongoing tariff uncertainty and an economic downturn as reasons for the closures.

“We did not make these decisions lightly,” said Supreme Group president Kevin Guile.

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“We recognize the impact that plant closures and layoffs have on our people and we are doing all we can to assist them with the transition.”

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Supreme Steel has been open in Winnipeg since 1968, and the parent company is the largest privately-owned steel construction company in Canada.

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