PHOTOS: Inside Amazon’s new fulfilment centre

Amazon’s new robotic fulfilment centre, named YXU1 after the code name for London International Airport, opens Oct. 1. The 186,000-square-metre (two-million-square-foot) facility in Southwold Township will employ more than 1,000 workers who will pick, pack and ship up to 750,000 items a day with the help of robotics technology. Free Press photographer Derek Ruttan toured […]

Strathroy lands $45M plant that will make insulated metal panels

A Quebec company that manufactures insulated metal panels is expanding to Ontario with a $45-million plant west of London. Norbec, which also manufactures walk-in coolers and freezers, is building a 23,225-square-metre (250,000-square-feet) plant on nine hectares of industrial land in Strathroy. Along with two plants in Quebec, the facility at 990 Wright St. will help […]