SAINT-LIN-LAURENTIDES, Quebec — Small-bus provider Corbeil has shut down its manufacturing plant, the company announced to Canadian media.
According to Radio-Canada, more than 200 workers were left unemployed by the closure.
Corbeil shuts down Quebec bus plant
SAINT-LIN-LAURENTIDES, Quebec — Small-bus provider Corbeil has shut down its manufacturing plant, the company announced to Canadian media. Accord...
September 20, 2007
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In recent years, the 130,000 square foot facility built about 2,500 bus bodies per year. The company offered a range of Type A school buses on GMC, Ford and Chevrolet chassis.
Company President Camile Chartrand told Canadian media that the company was no longer competitive with American manufacturers. He also cited an increase in the value of the Canadian dollar and a decrease in demand for school buses as reasons for the shutdown.
Corbeil was founded in 1936 by Joseph Henri Corbeil. His three sons took over the company after his death in 1960.
Corbeil’s Saint-Lin-Laurentides plant, then a 7,000 square foot facility, was also shut down in the early ’80s, but Michel Corbeil and his partners reopened it in 1985.
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