Terry Hawkins Industries Ltd. to expand with $200,000 ACOA loan

“The ACOA investment in marketing and market development has allowed us to attract top-line marketing expertise and provided us with the financial boost to seek out new export market opportunities,� said Hawkins.

The business, which produces Victorian claw-footed bathtubs in addition to other building components, has a staff of 11.

Hawkins says at least thirty people will be employed within the next five years.

“We’ve already got a large number of next year’s employees already hired and on the payroll,� he said.

“Within a very short time we will be moving well outside that 30.�

Hawkins pointed to their close proximity to Shelburne harbor as one of the reasons for the growth of the business.

“The market for our product is worldwide,� he said.

In addition to its open mold line, the enterprise is fostering the growth of a protrusion line, which is a cost-effective method for the production of advanced composites.

Hawkins foresees the construction of a second factory in the Shelburne Industrial Park as the demand for protrusion products continues to grow.

“We have the only machine in Canada that will produce an aspect of protrusion,� he said.