THORNHILL, Ont. (AP) -- canac kitchens, which has manufactured kitchen cabinets in a Thornhill, Ont., factory since 1967, will shut its doors next month. The dollar has soared, making production more expensive, and the U.S. new-home market, one of Canac's With canac kitchens gone, they’re hoping to see the area up-zoned to bring in commercial and residential development. “The associations are talking to each other and we are building umbrella organizations to get the powers that be to listen to us As controller at Cartier Kitchens of Brampton, Ont., he is part of a new management group that hopes to turn this small firm from a niche player into a big-league competitor. Cartier has long been a competitor to canac kitchens, North America’s leading A couple of months ago, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice found a 24-year employee of Canac Kitchens was entitled to 22 months’ notice after he was dismissed and paid only the minimum eight weeks’ statutory pay in lieu of notice and severance. Canac Kitchens, a provider of high-end home cabinetry, signed a 5-year lease for 16,135 square feet of warehouse space at 9104 Elkmont Way in Elk Grove, CA. The industrial building is located in the Union Industrial Park. The company is a subsidairy of But the wonders of the Web come to your rescue. A little sleuthing revealed that Cellini cabinets were made by a Canadian company, Canac Kitchens, which was bought out by Kohler and then closed. Luckily, an auction for factory leftovers is still online .
But after a recent Ontario case, that loophole may have just been closed. Luis Romero Olguin came to Canada in 1979 and started work for cabinetry maker Canac Kitchens shortly afterward. When Canac recently closed its Canadian plant, Olguin, at the age of see Wellborn Cabinet Canac Kitchens, see Kohler Canyon Creek Cabinet Company Capital Cabinet Corporation, see Fortune Brands Cardell Kitchen and Bath Cabinetry Conestoga Wood Specialties Corporation Crystal Cabinet Works Incorporated Cuisine Cabico The Tory MPP pointed to other recent lay-offs in Thornhill — the 2008 closures of Canac Kitchens and Progressive Moulded that threw 3,000 people out of work and Crown Metal Packaging’s announcement this spring that its Concord plant was closing in The company also launched four new lines geared for the remodeling sector. Canac Kitchens launched six new door styles and two new colors. Work began on a major physical expansion at the company's headquarters. Canac plans to launch three new door styles .