of operations. The plan is to be up-and-running there by Q1 or Q2 of 2024. “We’re going to greatly increase our capacity,” Corey explains. “Currently, we can comfortably produce about 200 cabinets a day. With the new facility – and with the new machines we’ve purchased, which are faster and more efficient – that number is going to go up to 300-to-350 cabinets a day.” In addition, Laurysen Kitchens also recently purchased a new showroom downtown, which is expected to open by either December this year or January next year. That showroom – which they are going to call their ‘Design Experience Centre’ – will be the new home of the company’s sales staff. That new location, in the middle of town, will bring the company closer to their customers and the source of most of their sales. Lastly, backed by their increased capacity and new showroom, Laurysen Kitchens intends to get a lot bigger – “to take on new accounts, to get into new markets, to bid more, to expand into Quebec and New York and potentially even further,” Corey says. “During COVID, we had to turn down about 1,500 units a year just because we didn’t have the capacity to do them,” Corey adds. “The new facility and the new equipment will give us that capacity. We’ll be able to take on more projects and bigger projects. We’ll be able to do more apartment projects, for example. It used to be we could only do one of those at a time due to capacity constraints. Those constraints are lifting.” SEPTEMBER 2023
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